The Green Roundtable provides green building consulting services for a range of building owners as a paid service, and is now able to provide these services to select nonprofit owners/developers in the Boston area. This early intervention, with an emphasis on process and peer review, is the most effective way to integrate green design strategies into projects while keeping costs down.
Thanks to an anonymous funder, GRT began providing green technical assistance to selected projects in 2005.
GRT's technical assistance capabilities within the Green Assistance Program (GAP) target three major areas as outlined below. GRT staff facilitate the process and help integrate green design decision- making into the overall project schedule, provide technical and peer review to make sure the team is asking the right questions at the right time, and using the right methods and tools for analysis and making sure the team is creating conditions that are conducive to success. For projects using the LEED rating system, the GAP program can help the team assess critical issues and the process associated with specific credit documentation - but does not cover the actual documentation of credits as a service.
Mindset: Initiating the Integrated Green Process
* Design Charrette
* Facilitating Internal Discussions
* Integration Mapping of the Green Process
* Facilitating Peer to Peer Conversations
* LEED Preliminary Assessment & Strategic Recommendations
Site Planning & Building Systems
* Climate Audit
* Building Use Profiles & Preliminary System Analysis
* Life Cycle Analysis
* Strategizing Energy Modeling
* Specification Implementation Plans Assistance (C&D waste, IAQ during construction and prior to occupancy)
Preliminary Building Analysis Investigations
* Building System Diagram Mapping
* Shading & Overshadowing
* Envelope Criteria
* Daylighting Spatial Studies
* Green Material Palette