McCutcheon Construction has completed many green projects. We have more than ten Certified Green Building Professionals on staff, including two designers. McCutcheon has extensive experience with most green building materials and methods including high-volume fly ash concrete, radiant heating, cellulose insulation, recycled materials, certified lumber, photovoltaic systems, etc. 

The company is deeply involved in the green building community through Build It Green, the Green Building Professionals Guild, and GreenHomeGuide.  Michael McCutcheon, President, serves on the Board of Directors of Build It Green and lectures on green building topics at venues such as West Coast Green and JLC Live.

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Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, Orinda, Lafayette, Moraga, Walnut Creek, Danville, Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito

Koffka Phakos Design has had a sustainable approach to architecture since our founding in 2002. In one notable project, we designed an addition to the 1940s home of a family of artists. A new tower inserted into the courtyard affords views across the Sunset Park neighborhood while capturing ocean breezes and eliminating the need for air conditioning. Demolition was kept to a minimum and construction waste was recycled. Principals Cynthia Phakos and Adrian Koffka are both LEED Accredited Professionals. Cynthia Phakos was a recent contributor to GreenHomeGuide’s Ask A Pro column.

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Westside, San Fernando Valley, Central LA

Spectrum Fine Homes has been an established residential Design/Build/Interior Design firm for almost 20 years. Both owners, Susan & Robert Davis, have been Certified Green Building Professionals since 2004, and we have completed more than twenty projects having some aspect of Sustainable Design and Green Building included in them. 

Spectrum Fine Homes received the Best Green Remodel Award for one of the two homes showcased on the 2006 Build-It-Green Santa Clara County Home Tour, and Platinum and Gold Awards for Green projects entered in the NARI of San Jose 2008 META Competition.

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San Mateo, Santa Clara

We have been working on green projects since 2002, and every project we work on has some green qualities. I am proud of my involvement in the Solar Decathlon entry from Santa Clara University. It included local, sustainable and beautiful materials. I have design degrees from Syracuse University and Canada College, am a Certified Green Building Professional, and professional member of USGBC, ADPSR and Coop America. 

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San Mateo and Santa Clara

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.

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San Francisco, Marin, Napa, Sonoma, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo

Sustainability is central to all of the activities of 450 Architects. We care passionately about all spheres of environmental impact, such as site, energy, water, materials, and health. We support the U.S. Green Building Council and we have three LEED Accredited Professionals on staff.  San Mateo County (California) hired 450 Architects to support the growth of sustainable design countywide by writing a comprehensive Sustainable Building Guidelines and Checklist that covers all types of construction and projects of all sizes. 

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San Francisco, Marin, Napa, Sonoma

A D Construction has completed a variety of green home projects since 2000.  Our most recent green project is a bathroom remodel completed in 2008 incorporating bamboo cabinetry, water saving plumbing and non toxic paints and finishes.  In 2006, we completed new construction of a green home in the Pleasure Point area of Santa Cruz called the Tree House.  This project incorporates the use of local and salvaged materials throughout, including redwood siding from a downed tree in Big Sur, energy efficient insulation and heating, and non toxic materials.  All of our staff are Certified Green Building Professionals and Shannon Demma is a LEED Accredited Professional by the U.S. Green Building Council.

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Monterey Bay Area

Alward Construction is a nationally recognized builder, winning over twelve awards since 1995. We have added green building as a specialty, and have a NARI Certified Green Builder on staff.

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Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara

Since its founding, Canyon Construction has completed more than sixty exclusively green projects, including ten custom homes and more than fifty remodels.  Many more of our remodels have incorporated sustainable features and methods, but were not exclusively green.  We have five LEED Accredited Professionals on staff, and four staff members are NARI Certified Green Builders.  We are also nationally recognized for our extensive work in High Volume Fly Ash Concrete.

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Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Sonoma

We have been doing green building projects since 1998. Carpistry’s existence evolved as we sought solutions to health issues in Tom’s family.

Tom’s own family home was Carpistry’s first green project in 2000, designed to alleviate his wife’s mold allergies. This is a 2,000 sq ft engineered log chalet on a mountain top in North Carolina, utilizing unused skyscraper parts collected in NYC (such as oversized windows, 8’ doors, slabs of granite, marble flooring, cherry flooring). The house was built as an exercise in mold-free living for $160/sq ft.  A whole house fan on a timer replaced AC by exaggerating mountain breezes and being 6’ in the air on sonotubes insured no basement mold.

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Manhattan, Westchester