Green, Sustainable, and High-Performance Design
Click Here for a PDFFor over twenty years Jonathan Lucas, the principal of What on Earth Architecture, has practiced a practical approach to sustainable/green design. Jonathan is a LEED Accredited Professional, is familiar with Healthy Built Homes standards, and has extensive experience, over a wide range of projects, with the issues and practices in green, sustainable, and high-performance design, including:
Site Considerations
- • Solar orientation and modeling
- • Low impact site design
- • Runoff mitigation
- • 3D building on-site modeling
Building Design
- • Building envelope design and energy analysis
- • Passive solar design and modeling
- • Efficient task lighting
- • Day-lighting design and modeling
Materials and Products Selection
- • Non-toxic material selection
- • Material and product life cycle analysis
- • Indoor air quality
- • Use of local and reclaimed material
Systems Analysis and Coordination
Analysis and coordination of building and site systems design including:
- • High efficiency heating,
- • Ventilating and cooling
- • Water supply, storage and purification
- • Low impact septic systems
- • Grey water systems
- • Cost benefit analysis for solar thermal and solar electric systems
