The Balance between Efficiency and Carbon Footprint
At DRAW, when we think about sustainability, we strive to achieve a balance between optimizing building energy efficiency and maintaining...
Application of Net-Zero Strategies
There are six applications of four strategies that we can apply to a new or existing building to achieve net-zero...
Sustainable Design: A Unified Process
DRAW’s mission of POSITIVE IMPACT DESIGN supports sustainability, net positivity, and carbon neutrality. To this end, we implement a holistic...
Three Essential Steps Toward Carbon Neutrality and Equity
As an architect and community member/advocate, I’ve been studying the issue of climate change for over two decades. These are...
Street Trees
Yesterday I walked across the Crossroads, from our office at Central to my favorite shop, Christopher Elbow Chocolates. The walk...
Triple Decker Design Challenge
Retrofit is one of the most sustainable approaches that architects can take towards creating new housing. Unlike new build construction,...
Fire Station 15
The team was hired by the city to design a fire station that better served the city’s northeast neighborhoods while...
Panelization Normalization
Developers, city planners, and architects are more and more devising novel prototypes to address progressively more complex and interrelated issues....
At DRAW, the difference is Positive Impact Design.
This blog post is a video. Not an unusual concept, but to us, at DRAW, the content is quite revolutionary:...
COVID-19 and Sustainability
During this difficult and stressful time, I’m blessed to both be surrounded by an amazing family and to be part...
Climate Change Blog Series – HOME Competition
Global warming, brought on by climate change, is an impending threat to the inhabitants of our planet. In the last...
Climate Change Blog Series – ACCO Conference
Global warming, brought on by climate change, is an impending threat to the inhabitants of our planet. In the last...