Fennie + Mehl Architects have always acted in an environmental sustainable manner. Since 2002, we have implemented working 80 hours every 9 days thereby eliminating over 160 round trip commutes a year for our staff.  As a registered San Francisco Green Business, we demonstrate our continued commitment to improve our employee wellness and productivity, conserve energy reduce waste and use less toxic products.  Our practice has had a healthy dose of renovation projects where we saved and reused significant portions of the existing buildings into our designs, in essence, extending  the useful life of the in-place materials and systems.  We have also advocated the use of energy efficient lighting and HVAC systems for all our projects.

Our approach to green building is to:

• Focus on the design effort on the green building concepts which will offer the biggest reductions in negative impacts, then concentrating on other areas which will present smaller reductions and improvements.
• Then, we will address synergies among green subsystems to leverage the designs to make a bigger contribution to the green building objective.
• Making environmentally sound choices of construction materials, building products, and construction techniques, while keeping overall costs in check and the project on schedule.

List of recent Green Sustainable Designs:

• Bar Association of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Avalon Willow Creek Renovation, Fremont, CA
• Walmart.com Photography and Emerging Brand Studio, South San Francisco, CA
• Rincon Gardens Apartment Rehabilitation, Campbell, CA
• Silicon Valley Bank, San Francisco, CA
• Immersa Marketing, San Francisco, CA