Sustainable Design

Sustainable Design

Lord Aeck Sargent aims to create buildings that have a restorative, positive impact on their inhabitants and a regenerative impact on the environment. Our design staff, including LEED-accredited architects, daylighting specialists, and energy analysts, have practiced sustainability since the early 1990s and believe in using an analytical approach to optimize building performance through the use of an Integrated Design Process that harnesses in-house building science expertise including energy modeling and daylight analysis, solar geometry studies, and climate analysis into all of our projects. This expertise allows us to understand how complex building systems and the climate interact and to evaluate and prioritize the effectiveness of building design decisions and energy efficiency measures.

LAS was one of the first architecture firms in the country to adopt The 2030 Challenge, an initiative that called on the global building sector to avoid hazardous climate change through the design of renewably powered buildings by 2030. We have also successfully certified more than 100 LEED projects, including LEED Zero Energy and LEED Zero Water certifications, as well as successfully achieving full Living Building Challenge Certification for the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at Georgia Tech.

We are committed not only to creating buildings with a positive impact on occupants and the environment, but to creating a just and equitable workplace. In February 2017, LAS earned a JUST Label, becoming one of the first 20 architecture firms in the world to earn this distinction and continue to renew it every two years.