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Cooper Green Design with 4 Elements Group is providing LEED consulting services for the East Hartford Fire Station No. 5 in East Hartford, CT. The project is registered under the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED 2009 Rating System and is anticipating Silver Certification.
Architect: Silver Petrucelli + Associates

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I live, work, and blog in Northampton, MA. It is a lively little city in the pioneer valley in western Massachusetts. Visitors come here for the music scene and the coffee. The city parking garage even has a sign at the entrance that reads “Welcome to Northampton! Where the coffee is strong, and so are [...]

Cooper Green Design, with 4 Elements Group, is providing LEED consulting services for the Centerpont CT campus in Middletown, CT.  The campus includes 7 new 2-story buildings and one existing building renovation. Spaces are available for purchase or for lease in an “office-condo” arrangement. The first phase includes 3 new buildings that are registered under [...]

We completed our time in Florence with a trip to the top of the Duomo, Brunelleschi’s dome on the Santa Maria del Fiore. This included carrying our 9 month old son up all 463 steps up to the top of the dome!
On a hot summer day, it was surprisingly cool and comfortable inside on the [...]

 
While in Trento, Italy, I snapped the perfect photo for my daylighting course. The building on the right uses many of the strategies that I discuss with my students:

The generous roof overhang is shading the windows on the third and fourth floors. The shutters are open, allowing the occupants to have a view, indirect daylighting, [...]

I spent the last week of June in Trento, Italy during the San Vigilio Festival. The city is surrounded by hills and mountains on all sides, and the Adige River to the west.  Several days into my stay, the wind was calm enough to take the cable car up to the village of Sardagna. I [...]

I teach the Daylighting component of the course, focusing on the integration of natural and electric lighting, maximizing daylight, glare reduction strategies, daylight modeling, and energy efficiency. I give a “Rapid History of Daylighting” review, featuring exceptional examples of naturally lit spaces.

Cooper Green Design is proud to become an adopter of the 2030 Challenge.
As an adopter, Cooper Green Design joins other leading firms throughout the nation in an effort to meet the following energy and emissions targets:

New buildings and major renovations will be designed to reduce fossil fuel energy consumption by 50% of the regional [...]