The Ecological Design Collaborative has collectively over 190 years of experience in environmentally-friendly projects varying in size and function—from single family homes to entire communities built around resilience and living buildings.

If you are an architectural team, we can bring our in-depth green design experience to work together with you on the following:

• green design and goal formation through charettes/brainstorming with the team and client.
• or a mixture of full service design (schematic, design development) plus construction documents, green specifications, landscape value engineering + construction administration.
• lead design systems for biological wastewater treatment and reuse, zero carbon buildings, on-site water management, vegetated walls and roofs, renewable energy analysis and planning, ecological site restoration.

If you are a developer or a future building owner, our value-added services include:

• sustainable development planning.
• 'green' entitlements process.
• acquainting your design team with updated knowledge on environmentally-friendly building and landscape design.

We facilitate the collaborative process to reduce design time and cost through open communication that brings out the best in all team members – clients, design professionals, consultants, and builders.

Please contact us to discuss your next green design project.

Sim Van der Ryn:
[email protected]
415.669.7252