We have completed many projects with green features over the last three years.  Our Pasatiempo remodel of a ranch style home, completed in 2006, scored well above LEED Gold standards. We currently have 3 staff members with NARI Green Building Professional Certificates and 1 member hold a certificate from USGBC.  We are affiliated with USGBC.  The company president, Jeff Talmadge helped to write the green building cerfication program currently in use by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry through his work on a specialty committee of the San Jose chapter.

Service Area (Counties)

We work in most areas of Santa Cruz County only.

We have completed numerous “green” projects throughout the Bay Area.  We received the 2004 SFBA Sustainable Landscaping Committee award for landscape installation & design.  We have been practicing “green” building practices since our inception in 2000.  We do not currently hold any green accreditations besides our reputation as a sustainable design build firm.  We belong to Bioneers Institute and Sustainable Landscaping Organization.

Service Area (Counties)

San Francsico, San Mateo, Marin

We approach all our designs from a green perspective; we utilize local, renewable and recyclable (or recycled) materials and design with a passive solar approach to maximize efficiencies while integrating more active systems where appropriate. Principal Tracy Stone has been involved with sustainable design since 1982. She is a member of the US Green Building Council, the AIA Committee on the Environment, and teaches sustainable design at Art Center College in Pasadena and at Woodbury University. She received her LEED Accreditation in February of 2003.

Service Area (Counties)

Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo

Tranquil Spaces founder Shannon Del Vecchio began her design career as a feng shui expert specializing in creating healthy home and office environments. She began using and specifying non-toxic finish materials, fabrics and paints nearly ten years ago with clients who suffered from environmental illnesses. Today, approximately 80% of her projects involve a strong green directive (both residential and commercial). Shannon has designed a number of “deep green” kitchens and baths, and has assisted dozens of clients in creating more efficient floorplans, so they can enjoy luxurious spaces for living and working without adding square footage. One of Shannon’s residential projects was selected for the Marin Green Home Tour in May of 2007, and she is currently working on a commercial project in the San Francisco Bay Area that is on target to receive a LEED rating of platinum in 2008.

Service Area (Counties)

San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin

Translation of Space is an architectural collaborative made up of architects, interior designers, landscape designers, developers, and real estate professionals.  Our goal is to promote sustainable, modern design that directly reflects the needs of our clients.

We finance about 1-2 green remodeling projects each month, beginning in late 2005.  We have financed approximately 20 projects in total.  Ryan Hamilton, Director, is a Certified Green Building Professional and Co-Chair of Build it Green’s Real Estate Council.  Valencia Green is also a Member of the Bay Area Green Business Program and the East Bay Sustainable Business Alliance.

Service Area (Counties)

SF Bay Area

We have been designing and building green for over 16 years. We are LEED Certified, USGBC Certified Green Building Professionals, and have received several environmental awards for our work, most recently the Mountain View Mayor’s Award for Environmental Contribution to the Community. Vox is a member of the USGBG and Build it Green, and our principals lecture and write for several local newspapers on green technologies and construction techniques.

Service Area (Counties)

San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Alameda, Contra Costa.