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LEED and Beyond
LEED significantly transformed the building industry, but... Do you perceive LEED, or any rating system, adding value to your project?
Rating systems are often treated as an applied set of generic universal best practices. For us a green building is so much more. It is an endeavor that sees itself as a way to affect change within its distinct context. Viewing your project as an instrument for realizing genuine systemic change begins with an articulation of its aspirations relative to those larger systems. Our approach seeks to manifest the project's deepest aspirations relative to its impacts on the systems within which it is nested (neighborhood, community, ecosystems) within its particular place.
How can rating systems play a role in articulating and manifesting your project's aspirations... and bring into the world what you're truly caring about... and what matters most to you?
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Featured Work
RE Farm Café at Windswept Farm
What started as a green building project, an off-the-grid, LEED certified, farm-to-table restaurant located on a working farm, a project that "does less harm", evolved into a systemic transformation of regional food production and consumption. Through the persistence of the owners Duke and Monica, a co-discovery process with key stakeholders aligning around the project’s Purpose and its effects in the Community, and years of regenerative thinking and design effort, the RE Farm Café at Windswept Farm was cultivated - a café nested in a farm, a farm nested in a community and regional food production and consumption system.
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Center for Sustainable Landscapes
Phipps Conservatory boasts the title of "most energy efficient conservatory in the world", and their ongoing commitment to sustainability is evidenced by their most recent project, the Center for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL). By utilizing an integrative design approach, this education, research and administration facility maximized efficiency and sustainability earning it "living" status under the Living Building Challenge (LBC), LEED NC v2.2 Platinum certification, WELL Building Platinum certification, and four stars under the SITESTM 2009 landscape rating system. In addition to being the first and only project to meet these four highest green certifications, CSL has been named by AIA COTE as a Top Ten Green Project of 2016 among other awards.
The Willow School Campus
"Excellence, Education, Ethics, and Ecology", is The Willow School’s mantra. A small, independent coeducational day school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, The Willow School is committed to combining academic excellence and the joy of learning with experiencing the wonder of the natural world. It's campus is nestled on a 34-acre wooded site in rural New Jersey countryside, and the building and its surroundings are an integral feature in school’s curriculum. Children at The Willow School study the connections between mathematics, literature, history, and the natural world; observing ecosystem patterns and cycles; and sustaining a thriving natural environment.
Customer Testimonials
"From start to finish, 7group laid out a clear and comprehensive roadmap which redefines the way we currently design and operate our buildings. This is a must for every real estate and building professional that seeks to move beyond basic "green" to restorative and regenerative buildings and communities."
"The members of 7group are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into reality by helping change minds, building practice, and design process."
"We started to think not about sustainable – meaning don't do harm – to more regenerative kind of thinking. And we wanted to fashion a way to grow the community's understanding of farming as it involves the local food system in total."