Sustainability is both a goal and practice in every project that we undertake—whether integrating green building products, efficient energy systems, or passive solar design. Our design for a dive resort on an atoll located 22 miles off the mainland in Belize required all buildings to be self sustaining. The cabanas, restaurant, dive shop and staff quarters include PV solar panels with battery banks to supply and store power, rain water collection, and natural cooling through convection from the water below the buildings.

Greg Upwall is a member of the USGBC’s Emerging Green Builders and regularly attends green building events organized by the USGBC, the Pacific Energy Center, and the AIA.