The (Green) Team
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Greenovative Design & Engineering, LLC (GD&E) is a multi-diciplined environmentally focused engineering, product and consulting firm. GD&E provides innovative and cost effective solutions for todays complex environmental challenges. Our team includes corporate partners whose expertise includes architecture, mechanical and electrical design, construction management and purchasing, photovoltaic, and other energy/environmental concentrations providing the expertise to tackle virtually any assignment, large or small.
All of our services can be provided under the banner of the MBE, SDB, DBE and SBE certificates at the State, Country, City, School Districts, Water Management Districts and at the Federal level which belong to the various members of the GD&E team and members of the Greenovative Partners.
The GD&E Team also offers a wide range of environmentally-conscious building and energy solutions related to new and existing structures. Major areas of services offered by GD&E are:
Efficient building design and construction: LEED-accredited professionals and Green Associates provide design based on sustainability principles. We focus on the use of local building materials thereby decreasing energy needed for transportation as well as the utilization of recycled materials for construction decreasing energy demands for the manufacture of new building materials.
Passive heating: This applies to the construction of the new structures, designing the structure to capture and utilize heat that is either generated naturally or as a by-product of the building. Examples of passive heating include specific placement of the heating vents, solar powered attic fans, the design and placement of the building and the windows.
Grey water: This is the capture and utilization of grey water. Grey water is water that has been used for some other source such as in the faucets or rain water that can no longer be offered as potable, but still can be used for toilet flushing or land irrigation.
Renewable energy: This service offers customers the information needed to make intelligent decisions regarding the use of renewable energy sources. Renewable energy sources can be defined as sources of energy where the rate of energy depletion is not faster than the production rate. Examples include: solar energy, wind power, hydropower and biomass. We are concentrating on the implementation of Geothermal Heating and Cooling, and Solar Energy Technologies including photovoltaic systems, passive hot water systems, and other smaller applications such as attic fans, street lighting and remote monitoring systems.
Employee transportation: This service is to reduce the energy consumed by employees traveling to work. Typical aspects of the plan are outlining public transportation options, developing a company subsidized public/alternative transportation voucher, building covered bicycle lockers and shower facilities as well as other activities designed to increase the number of employees using bicycles as their main source of transportation to work.
Environmental Sustainability and Restoration: This service includes watershed restoration, stormwater capture and reuse. In support of efforts to preserve water quality and riparian habitat, our scientists from a variety of disciplines are applying their expertise to advance the fundamental science, tools and techniques of watershed restoration. This includes the use of Florida friendly plants for landscaping that will eliminate the use of artificial irrigation and fertilizing and fumigation which will result in watershed restoration.
Rehabilitation of historic and older structures: Preservation of existing buildings is important from a land reuse point, but also carries historical meaning and connection to our past. This service includes architectural duties such as carrying out exterior repairs to and stabilization of the brick and masonry walls and roof tiles, upgrades of fire-sprinkler systems usually absent in older buildings, attention to the building’s historic ambience (i.e., lighting system), overall safety and structural adequacy, and more.