Sustainability Assessments and Planning

We provide comprehensive sustainability assessments of your facilities, helping you understand where improvement opportunities exist to reduce energy, water use and carbon emissions, as well as improving indoor air quality, environmental efforts and infrastructure. These assessments are the catalyst for developing strategies for system upgrades, replacements, renovations, renewable energy and much more. Our team will work with you to plan, prioritize, and estimate costs on your path to a more cost-conscious, environmentally friendly and sustainable future.

Green Infrastructure

Our teams of specialists provide modern, high-performance and full-range green infrastructure designs to solve urban flooding and mitigate impacts from climatic challenges and hazards. Our multi-disciplined specialists provide hybrid solutions, from engineered stormwater control designs to creating wildlife habitats for butterflies! We are dedicated to innovative and customized nature-based solutions combined with gray infrastructure for sustainable and resilient communities, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Our integrated and visionary approach engages in long-term partnerships by harnessing local support and incorporating social values, safety, and functional and cost-effective operability in our green infrastructure designs.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

As the built environment is responsible for over 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions globally, Haskell takes its role in reducing both embodied carbon and operational carbon emissions as an important step to help mitigate the impacts of climate change. We utilize the latest technologies, including Building Information Modeling (BIM), lifecycle assessments (LCA) and product information databases to design and construct facilities with low- or zero-carbon footprints.

Energy Efficiency

Efficiency is critical to the success of any company. When it comes to energy, our architects and engineers, through an integrative design process, create buildings that are highly energy efficient, reducing your utility bills while providing indoor environments that are healthy and comfortable. Through the careful consideration of siting, orientation and massing, the use of early-phase and detailed energy modeling and lifecycle cost analyses, and best practices in envelope and systems design, to the procurement, installation and commissioning from our construction teams, we will provide you with state-of-the-art projects that meet your budget while lowering your energy costs and more positively affecting the environment.

Electrification

The impact of fossil fuels on global warming and climate change is significant. We have the power to change that. With our expert engineering and construction services, we specialize in transforming spaces with cutting-edge all-electric solutions. From LED lighting and air source heat pumps to smart grid technologies, electric vehicle charging and much more, we maximize efficiency, reduce costs and provide buildings that promote a more sustainable future.

Water Conservation, Renewal, Reclamation and Management

We provide customized technical tools and designs for innovative, integrated, sustainable and resilient solutions for all water-use sectors. Our Sustainable Communities Water Infrastructure Program is catalyzed by Programmatic Water Planning to support each community’s unique needs and future growth. Our integrated approach considers climate variability, drought contingency planning and conservation incentives and regulations to support seasonal and long-term water planning for system resilience.

The Sustainable Facility Water Infrastructure Program helps find customized approaches to achieve their water stewardship goals through system analysis and water audits, recycling wastewater, effluent management, facility metering, leak detection and optimal facility sizing. Our comprehensive planning incorporates environmental permitting, regulatory compliance requirements and Best Management Practices, to deliver cost-effective and consolidated water management.

Source Reduction/Waste Management

Source reduction is integral to sustainable waste management and environmental conservation efforts. Our teams will emphasize source reduction through the use of pre-manufactured or pre-engineered components, material efficiencies, process optimization, product reuse and recycled materials. Additionally, our construction teams will implement construction waste management plans to reduce waste to landfills. By considering local construction waste recycling facilities or other waste diversion opportunities, we can significantly reduce the impact of construction waste on our landfills.

Renewable Energy

Haskell has a long history of incorporating renewable energy strategies in our projects, including installing photovoltaic systems, solar thermal, small-scale wind, geothermal, microgrids and more. Today, more than ever, renewable energy is vital to meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and reducing carbon emissions. Our teams will work with you to determine the optimal renewable energy sources for your project and provide designs that are cost-effective, environmentally friendly and that allow you to showcase your dedication to sustainability.

Green Building Certification

Haskell has designed and/or constructed over 125 sustainably certified projects and in excess of 150 more projects designed to meet a third-party certification standard. Whatever building standard you wish to pursue (or are mandated to pursue), our trained sustainability staff will work with you in an integrative approach to define the sustainability goals for your project and implement those goals through design and construction, providing you with a facility that successfully achieves the desired certification while meeting your needs and budget, reducing costs and providing a healthy and eco-friendly environment.

Examples of sustainability certifications received include USGBC’s LEED, Green Building Initiative’s Guiding Principles Compliance, Florida Green Building Coalition, and Energy Star.