National Leader in Local Sustainable Design Solutions

While taking a passive approach to all design decisions, we look at your individual needs, your project budget, what impact you chose to make and come up with a sensible intelligent design package that fits the realistic goals of you, the client and your local jurisdictional mandates, benefits and limitations. While collaborating with a knowledgeable design team whose creative and innovative designs are based on sound fiscal objectives and fundamental environmental and social principles, we craft affordable and luxurious green solutions into every project making healthy intelligent green designs workable and commonplace.

With over 8 separate certification alliances and over 30 years experience, our team of associates and partners, knows the ins and outs of what is required to make your design healthy, appealing and cost effective. Whether you need a LEED certified structure, Build it Green, Energy Star or Sustainable Design Certification, we are here for you. Not all certification protocols are created equal. Some are far too cumbersome in particular situations, some are area specific. We can help filter through all the confusing information out there.

Mission Statement

SDC, Sustainable Design, is committed to investment in a sustainable future by providing homeowners and small businesses with a fully integrated sustainable design process that enhances aesthetic goals, limits resource consumption and promotes social well-being and productivity. By incorporating architectural design and product selection, it is our mission to create an environment tailored to our client's lifestyle and tastes, while remaining focused on environmental objectives, high performance, functionality and sound practical economic principles.

Who we are

SDC is your small local architectural design firm with national direction. We live on a very small planet. We need to treat it as such. Everything we do impacts everyone. On a simple level, small design decisions impact everything around us.

Our, simple effective one design, one planet philosophy separates us from our competitors in that we strive to not only provide the absolute best in comfortable, cost effective, luxurious architectural design, but we provide the best local resources and product selection available. In addition to our national databases, we provide the best in local independent licensed and bonded Sustainable Design Certifiers. We certify under any recognized certification requirement available.

Sustainability is our founding principle, where lasting design complements intelligent healthy product selection.

What is Sustainable Design?

In architecture, sustainable design is not the attachment or supplement of architectural design, but an integrated design process. This requires close cooperation of the design team, the architects or designers, the engineers and the client at all project stages, from site selection, scheme formation, material selection, procurement and project implementation. Sustainable design is a design philosophy and practice in which products and services contribute to social well-being, make sound economic sense, with negligible impact on the environment, as design and product selection is produced from a sustainable resource base. As such, sustainable design encompasses the practice of eco-design, with due attention to economic, environmental, ethical and social factors.

We strive to incorporate sustainable thinking into everyday life. Passive design in architecture incorporated with product selection is key to overall sustainability and client satisfaction. The SDC model is a product of our comprehensive sustainable process.