REthink Development offers green building consulting and LEED Certification services to make your future and existing buildings higher performing, differentiated, and more valuable.

Green building is an exciting new market segment for building owners and developers. Those that are able to fully capitalize on the potential of higher performing buildings will reap the rewards. REthink’s experience removes the risk of implementing green building practices to enable clients to meet the demand for higher performing buildings without the uncertainty that comes with taking a new approach to building.

Through intelligent integrated design and implementation of green technologies and practices REthink will help to reduce your building’s operational and capital costs, increase its productivity and health quotient, and reduce its environmental impact all while substantively increasing its value. By using an integrated design approach, REthink can help build, redevelop, or modify your buildings to realize up to $50 per square foot more value than similar non-green buildings. In new construction and major renovation projects, REthink can deliver these benefits with little or no additional hard costs.

REthink’s experience in green building consulting, setting green building governmental policy, and as principals in for-profit spec developments provides an informed and unique perspective that will maximize your value in going green. REthink will work with the development, design, and build teams to drive green building features, techniques, and certification while producing quantifiable life cycle returns for implemented features. Additionally, REthink will help to position and market the development’s green features to help attract investors, speed entitlements, and improve marketability.

Services

Building Green

Design Phase

• Determine green building goals
• Conduct integrated design charrettes with design and build teams
• Recommend green building strategies, materials, systems
• Manage LEED Certification

Construction Phase

• Green building project management/ LEED documentation management
• Green construction implementation strategies
  

Documentation and Certification

• Collect and generate LEED documentation
  

Post-Construction Phase

• Green building operations manual/ green tenant improvement guidelines

Capitalizing on the Value of Green

• Demonstrate Returns on Green Strategies
  
• Document Increased Property Value
  
• Develop Green Goodwill
  
• Accelerate entitlement process
  
• Gain support from community groups
  
• Create content, documents and presentations, and appear at publichearings
  
• Develop Market Positioning
  
• Educate Marketing Team on Benefits
  
• Deliver Financial Incentives
  
• Research for tax credits
  
• Apply for utility rebates

Going Green Now

The business case and economic benefits for going green are becoming hard to ignore and more and more documented. With the market awareness increasing on the benefits to occupants, green is being demanded. Now, REthink can give you the economic benefits with virtually no upfront increase in costs. A 0% to 2% increase in costs can conservatively yield a $50 per square foot increase in value for a LEED Certified and Silver Certified building on a Net Present Value basis for a 20-year period. (Calculated conservatively using only a 1% worker productivity gain) Consequently, going green now is not only smart for the bottom line but it is the right thing to do.

REthink’s experience as consultants, domain experts, governmental policy advisors, and as developers makes us uniquely qualified to be your ideal green development partner. We have a unique understanding of the needs of developers and owners because we are developers ourselves. In our development business, we must clearly see and be able to articulate and profit from the salient and substantive benefits of going green. Please give us a call or send us an email if you have a commercial project greater than 25,000 sf in size that you would like to investigate going green.