Full service, client focused, integrated design approach, with a strong emphasis on high quality high performance (energy efficient and durable) construction methods and carefully managed construction.Private homes, additions, renovations, public housing and small commercial projects.

I continue to serve as an elected Newton City Councilor, assigned to the Zoning & Planning (Chair) and Public Facilities (former Chair) committees. I also served on Land Use for ten years (granting special permits). I led the effort to bring the MA Green Communities (GC) program to Newton (2010), earning the city multiple grants from the MA Dept. of Environmental Resources (DOER). The first grant was used to deep energy retrofit a 1950s community center (needing major renovations), reducing energy demand by 70%. Overall, the city achieved municipal energy reductions of 9% (2008-2017), while adding to schools and fire stations. Other DOER grants helped fund LED replacements for 8400 street lights, and LED lamp replacements throughout city buildings, totaling over $1.6 million to date. In 2011, I led the Zoning Reform Group, who defined a course of action to restructure the City's land use development zoning ordinances, so as to facilitate the objectives of the City Plan. This effort is funded and ongoing, but highly contentious as we look at specific ways we can support village economies and allow for more housing types affordable to more people. In 2011, I initiated development of a strategic plan to rehabilitate old and leaky city sewer and water systems over 11 and 20 years, respectively. This effort has been fully funded since July2012. In 2015 we adopted a 20 year strategic plan to rehabilitate the stormwater system, funded since July 2015. In 2017, Council adopted high performance municipal building standards pushing the city closer toward achieving very low energy use indices in new schools. In 2019 we adopted ordinances requiring special permit projects to meet specific high performance building standards. I contributed to and supported 2019 adoption of a Climate Action Plan to mitigate climate change, that sets interim specific goals and zero carbon emissions by 2050.

During and after the Carter administration, our company contracted with the MA Energy Office and U.S. Department of Energy, to provide tools and training in the building sciences, especially for the purpose of training insulation inspectors and installers across the country, as well as illustrating new energy codes nationwide for the major utilities participating in the then emerging U.S. Residential Conservation Service Program.