Siegel & Strain Architects
Green
Siegel & Strain has extensive, practical experience in environmentally sustainable design including: climate-responsive buildings, use of materials that minimize environmental impact, practices that minimize construction waste, design for energy efficiency, use of renewable sources of energy, design that minimizes site impacts, and responsible ways of managing storm water and wastewater.

We are actively involved in the research and use of green building materials. Our reSourceful Specifications, a guideline specification of environmentally sustainable materials and methods, is an outgrowth of this research. Our research carries over into our design projects, which can be identified by the following symbol when browsing the other sections:
Green / Sustainable Design

We received a 1999 Architecture Magazine Architectural Research Award for our research associated with the Emeryville Resourceful Building Project. This study described our approach to selecting environmentally sustainable materials and systems, without increasing construction costs for this affordable housing project.

>1999 Architecture Magazine Award for Architectural Research
> Copies of the report (in book format) are available for purchase. Please download this form to order.

| reSourceful Specifications

reSourceful Specifications is a guideline environmental building specification that provides supplemental selection criteria and performance standards for specifying environmentally responsible materials and methods of construction. It is intended to supplement the existing criteria, definitions and standards contained in a set of standard building specifications with additional environmental requirements. reSourceful Specifications has been incorporated into the GreenSpec published by Environmental Building News.

>1998 The AIA East Bay Practice & Technology Award

In addition to our own sustainable projects we have been consultants on sustainable design for several clients. The Slide Ranch Environmental and Agricultural Education Center, the Villa Montalvo artist-in-residence program, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (with Greg VanMechelen).