Transform:

Creating abundance through sustainability

Signature buildings that meet the climate challenge

Sustainability for competitive advantage

Engaging stakeholders for market change

Transforming Buildings and Portfolios—Analytics are the Key

Green building design is a technical discipline that requires intellectual and analytical rigor to surface feasible, opportunistic, sustainable design strategies. Paladino’s role is to faciliate a restructuring of the conventional design and construction process in a way that allows the owner and design team members to work together towards an integrated sustainable design solution.

Through strong and direct engagement with owners, Paladino’s building and portfolio transformation services help drive design and management teams towards enhanced performance of individual building projects and portfolio programs, delivering creative strategies validated by rigorous technical and financial analytics.

Paladino’s in-house team of architects, engineers, building scientists and business analysts provide expertise and leadership in all discplines of green building design, construction, financial feasibility, and green portfolio management.

Paladino and the LEED® Green Building Rating System

Paladino has been engaged with the U.S. Green Building Council and the LEED® green building rating system since its inception. We invented the LEED® Reference Guide, directed the first LEED® Pilot Program, and have reviewed more than 500 certified projects to date as part of a technical contract with the USGBC. We continue a strong relationship with the U.S. Green Building Council and other market leading organizations with altruistic missions to transform the way buildings are design and constructed, expertly applying rating systems as appropriate to the goals of the project and owner.

Building Transformation Services

Signature Green Building Services

Concept generation - site master plan development, whole building design including Living Building and Net Zero Building strategies
High performance building system analytics
- Daylight harvest - window / electric lighting integration
- Thermal - energy efficient envelope and HVAC
- Ventilation - hybrid and mixed mode natural venting
- On-site renewable generation - PV, wind, bio, recovery
- Materials - net zero transport and watershed inventory
- Water - storm / grey water harvest; on-site wastewater treatment; landscaping, green roofs

Total cost of ownership - Capex / Opex budgeting, payback, net present value, externality sensitivity analysis
Construction management - contractor training and oversight
Commissioning - fundamental and enhanced, M&V plans
LEED application development and submittal

Sustainable Community Services

Market analysis, including competitive market assessments
Sustainable master plan development including concept design, program analysis and LID utility planning
Sustainable community strategy development and implementation, including concept charrettes and goal setting
Financial feasibility studies using total cost of ownership
LEED-ND certification strategy development and implementation, including application creation and submittal

Existing Building Services

Building performance field assessments to LEED-EBOM and ASHRAE 90.1-2204
Diagnostic analytics using utility and web collected data
Building retrofit and upgrade strategies and programs
Financial feasibility studies of retrofits and upgrades using total cost of ownership
Sustainable O&M Guidelines
Building re-commissioning and retro-commissioning
Post occupancy performance evaluation
Energy Star and LEED-EBOM certification strategy development and implementation

High Performance Portfolio Services

Sustainable portfolio strategies
Sustainable design standards for new construction and existing building upgrades
Tenant improvement guidelines
Green / LEED design prototype development for volume construction and other builders of same-type portfolios
LEED Volume and Portfolio Certification Program development and implementation, including high performance prototype design development

LEED® is a registered trademark of the U.S Green Building Council