About us
Mission
Green building is confusing. We simplified it.
Building efficiency is widely recognized as a keystone solution needed for international decarbonization. Despite its effectiveness, green building represents less than 1% of the residential market.
SustainableBuild was founded to accelerate the adoption of green building solutions by offering a suite of resources for both consumers entering the field and design professionals.
We apply rigorous research and data analysis to create high precision calculators and databases, enabling users to discover a wide range of solutions. Tailored to a user’s climate, electrical grid, and budget, these tools demonstrate the array of solutions possible within the parameters that reflect the reality of construction projects.
SustainableBuild’s goal is to distil the elusive concepts of building science into realizable solutions. Through this, we aim to tap existing solutions and spread this knowledge so everyone can participate in helping combat climate change.
Team
Stephen Pallrand
Stephen Pallrand's background in construction, architecture, architectural history, painting, and set design has aided him in pulling together the diverse group of artists, craftsmen, architects and designers who work on the CarbonShack projects. His father was a scientist/educator and his mother an educator and patron of the arts. This exposure to art, science and education led him to realize that building in an environmentally conscious manner is unimportant if you do not communicate the need and educate the consumer, for there are no green buildings, only green users. Our understanding of the environment is changing radically and so is the fate of the earth based on our actions as a civilization. Art and architecture have always played a critical role in representing the knowledge and culture of a period and Pallrand's use of the CarbonShack projects is to transform our shelters, our homes, into vehicles of change.
Charlie Markowitz
Charlie Markowitz is an Environmental Data Analyst working to increase awareness of the carbon cost of building construction. His recent focus has been on strategizing how to create efficient building design, collaborating with green tech startups to devise innovative construction strategies, and providing a suite of open source data tools to maximize smart building operations, grid edge technologies, and material efficiency. While the public's current paradigm is to look at the building sector as many inefficient structures that can be upgraded, Charlie's goal is to create a shift in which the public realizes the building sector is the node at which carbon neutral energy, sustainably supplied water, responsibly generated materials, and zero waste intersect in our increasingly renewable economy.
Homes That Stand For Stewardship
