We have been doing green building projects since 1998. Carpistry’s existence evolved as we sought solutions to health issues in Tom’s family.

Tom’s own family home was Carpistry’s first green project in 2000, designed to alleviate his wife’s mold allergies. This is a 2,000 sq ft engineered log chalet on a mountain top in North Carolina, utilizing unused skyscraper parts collected in NYC (such as oversized windows, 8’ doors, slabs of granite, marble flooring, cherry flooring). The house was built as an exercise in mold-free living for $160/sq ft.  A whole house fan on a timer replaced AC by exaggerating mountain breezes and being 6’ in the air on sonotubes insured no basement mold.

David Bergman is a licensed architect and LEED Accredited Professional, with more than a decade of green design experience. A recent green project was the gut renovation of a NoHo/Greenwich Village loft space utilizing eco materials, energy efficient lighting and a removable fabric duct system. 

In addition to his practice, David currently teaches sustainable design at Parsons School of Design, has taught at Yale and lectures frequently. He is a board member of o2NYC, the NY chapter of an international organization of ecodesigners, and is also on the boards of several other design organizations.

Carolyn has been certified by the Green Advantage program and is currently completing her first green project.

Maggie Wood Design has completed over a dozen green home projects.  Our first green home consulting project was completed in 2003, and today we work on a diverse set of projects, ranging from small renovations and interiors, to full-scale home additions and new construction. 

Maggie Wood, founder of Maggie Wood Design, holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from Smith College and a Master of Science in Design from the University of Massachusetts, where she concentrated in sustainable design.

Maggie is a LEED Accredited Professional and has a research background in environmental health and the built environment.

Vital Design Ltd presents the future of design with innovative solutions that are exciting, unique and respectful of our planet.

Cheryl Terrace’s full-service design firm specializes in creating beautiful interiors that are environmentally friendly, safe, and natural. Cheryl’s ‘green dream team’—the best professionals in the industry—are committed to thinking creatively, solving problems efficiently, and delivering a fine-crafted look.

Our first “green” project was green by default: an old farmhouse in Texas renovated and extended so as to be “at harmony with the land around” and using local and appropriate materials. A similar approach was taken for a house on Long Island. In 1998 I did not think to call this green, though it qualifies today. Now, we are in the process of designing and developing a 150-acre sustainable mixed-use development on the same family land. Now, we have been asked to collaborate on the design of large-scale multi-family “green” projects with large established “green” firms such as FX Fowle and HOK.

We completed our first green home project in 2006.  Materials and methods we’ve used include: super insulation (cellulose), condensing high-efficiency gas boiler, local materials, earth-bermed, efficient lighting, low VOC paint, brick & tile finishes, cellulose ceiling.  Bill Chaleff has been LEED Accredited since 2003 and firm’s entire staff is also LEED Accredited.  Firm is affiliated with the USGBC and founder Suffolk Co. Solar Energy Commission.

Chris Benedict currently has fifty-six green multifamily projects completed, under construction, or on the boards. Her first green housing project, the substantial gut rehabilitation of eighteen small multifamily buildings in Brooklyn, New York was completed in 1998. In 1999 she was awarded Energy Professional of the Year by the International Association of Energy Engineers for the project.

299 East Third Street is a good example of Chris’s work. This thirty-eight apartment new-construction project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan uses 15% of the energy of a typical apartment building for no additional construction cost. Chris thinks holistically, outside the normal “green” box, and does not use “guidelines” and “point systems” for her designs. Her projects do not need grants or additional funding. Chris is a licensed architect in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., and is not affiliated with LEED, USGBC or the AIA. 

Duce Construction has been renovating homes and apartments in the greater New York City area since 1990. In 2001 we began building greener, incorporating our refined building skills with superior knowledge of green products and techniques. All of our projects now use recycled thermal and sound insulation and low VOC adhesives and paints, and often more.

Membership in the Apollo Alliance, NYSERDA, US Green Building Council, EBA, NYSEIA and NESEA, among others, keeps the Duce staff up to date. We also monitor the latest research, products, technologies and trends through Green Building seminars, trade conferences and specialty environmental building periodicals.

GreenStreet has been a pioneer and leader in the NYC metro region in high end residential green building since 1998.  GreenStreet has two LEED Accredited project managers on staff and is a member of the USGBC.  GreenStreet has successfully completed over 50 interior green renovation projects and 10 green townhouse projects.  GreenStreet is currently working on the first Health House Certified project in conjunction with the American Lung Association.  GreenStreet was the LEED Consultant for the Mark Twain Museum Education & Visitors Center in Hartford, Conn.