Great design does more than look good. Today, more so than ever, buildings need to perform. At THRiVE we care as much about function and performance as we do about aesthetics—and we care a lot about aesthetics!

The cost of energy continues to spike and so has awareness of carbon based pollutants and their affect on our health and the environment. Buildings in the United States account for approximately 40% of all the energy consumed. Isn’t it time to put a dent in that figure? What if buildings accounted for 40% of the energy produced in the United States!

Today’s building technology makes it possible to dramatically reduce or even eliminate and reverse buildings’ external energy requirements. Passive and active solar, wind, co-generation, geo-thermal and other systems coupled with air-tight construction each have the potential to replace traditional energy sources with zero-emission alternatives. But which strategy should you employ, and how much extra will it cost? And how do you know your building will perform in reality as well as it does on paper?

THRiVE’s approach focuses on value and informing choices with the cost of a given option against its accrued benefit. We believe good choices are made on good information.

At THRiVE our goal is to know as much as possible about the ultimate performance of a building before it is ever built or renovated. We can closely approximate building performance using building science, state of the art computational technology, and experience. Our firm makes use of some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the industry as well as a proven design through construction process to assure our results.

Services:

• Architecture
• Building Envelope Consulting and Commissioning
• BIM Modeling for Energy Analysis and Visualization

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