Balance Energy™, a BAE Systems initiative and Renomics strategic partner, Balance Energy provides assured integrated microgrid and renewable energy solutions to enhance energy availability, conservation, and affordability for local communities
Cook + Fox Architects, a world leader in high-performance sustainable buildings
EnerNex, a power engineering firm at the forefront of the smart grid
GlobalSmartEnergy, a consulting firm that advises investors, corporations and government agencies
GreenSpur, a design-build firm that with its partners emphasizes sustainability in delivering new construction, renovations, master plannning, and more
Group 70 International, award-winning architects and urban/environmental planners
Terrapin Bright Green, a planning group that has helped with some of the world’s most famous sustainable projects
Universal Asset Management, a civil engineering firm that specializes in state-of-the-art community infrastructure
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Balance Energy, San Diego, CABalance Energy™, a BAE Systems initiative and Renomics strategic partner, provides assured integrated MicroGrid and renewable energy solutions to enhance energy availability, conservation, and affordability for local communities. BAE Systems is the premier global defense, security, and aerospace company, delivering a full range of products and services for air, land, and naval forces. The company has a strong focus on smart energy solutions, drawing on 35 years of experience in advanced electronics, power management, information technology, wireless communications, security systems, and customer support services. Its current energy initiatives are focused on ensuring reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable power generation to address emerging utility, municipality, community, and military demands. Key areas include smart microgrids, distributed renewable resources, sustainable communities, hybrid electric heavy vehicles, and sustainable military-deployed and static installations. The company’s 106,000 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries and “home markets” in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Sweden. BAE Systems’ 2008 sales exceeded $34.4 billion. The company’s U.S. subsidiary, BAE Systems Inc., is based in Rockville, Maryland, and employs more than 55,000 people in electronics, intelligence, control systems, land vehicles, armaments, and mobility capabilities. |
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Cook + Fox Architects, New York, NYCook + Fox Architects is devoted to creating environmentally responsible, high-performance buildings. Its vision is beautiful design shaped by a strong connection to place, serious standards of sustainability, and a commitment to excellence enriched by the collaborative process. Cook + Fox designed the Bank of America building in midtown Manhattan that will be the world’s first high-rise to reach for the USGBC’s coveted LEED Platinum certification. Cook + Fox’s office is also the only office in New York to have achieved LEED Platinum certification. The firm’s founders have received numerous prizes, honors and lifetime achievement awards. |
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EnerNex Corporation, Knoxville, TNEnerNex is a world leader in the planning and implementation of the next-generation Smart Grid. Its team of power engineers has led the research and development of numerous fundamental technologies that have since been adopted as worldwide standards. It has created Smart Grid roadmaps for many leading utilities and led both demonstration and deployment projects. EnerNex was recently selected by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to manage and sustain the hundreds of standards required to build an interoperable smart grid. In that role, EnerNex will be responsible for centralizing, sustaining and propagating these vital national standards. |
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GlobalSmartEnergy, Seattle, WA / Washington, DCGlobalSmartEnergy advises investors, vendors and government agencies on the emerging Smart Energy sector. Its current and past clients have included Global Environment Fund, Lockheed Martin, National Energy Technology Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy. It also produces Smart Grid News, the top-ranked site devoted to the modernization of the world’s electric infrastructure. |
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GreenSpur, Falls Church, VAGreenSpur brings together thoughtful design, sound building practices, valued partners and proven sustainability techniques to deliver buildings that are incredibly energy efficient, healthy, cost effective and most importantly are spaces that people want to work and live in. The GreenSpur team proves that you can deliver projects that make both economic and sustainable sense. Green does not have to cost more and look less. |
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Group 70 International, Honolulu, HIEstablished in 1971, Group 70 International, Inc. is an award-winning firm of architects, planners, interior designers and asset managers. Staffed with cultural specialists and a team of LEED-accredited professionals, Group 70 offers expertise in sustainable and culturally appropriate developments. Its mission is to foresee a sustainable future now: to conceive, conduct, complete and continue best-in-class projects that demonstrate leadership in global sustainability.Group 70’s expertise covers:
The recipient of many honors and awards, Group 70 designs projects that serve the community, enhance the environment and reflect the host culture. |
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Terrapin Bright Green, New York, NY / Washington, DCTerrapin Bright Green is a consulting and strategic planning group that helps clients think differently about environmental strategy, policy, and related opportunities. Its unique process gives clients access to years of experience, imaginative collaboration, insightful leadership, and groundbreaking creativity. With Terrapin’s help, clients have been able to prove that building green is not only the right thing to do, but also makes very good business sense. Terrapin’s principals are highly respected leaders in the green building movement, whose work have advanced ideas of urban sustainability and design excellence. The firm’s expertise has been sought out by organizations as diverse as Fortune 500 companies, leading universities, non-profit organizations, the U.S. military, and foreign governments. Its project list includes:
Terrapin principals Bill Browning and Bob Fox are contributors to BIOPHILIC DESIGN: The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life edited by Yale professor Stephen Kellert and winner of the 2008 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Architecture and Urban Planning category. |
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Universal Asset Management, Harrisonville, MOUniversal Asset Management (UAM) is an environmental and civil engineering firm that specializes in the planning, design, deployment, operation and maintenance of state-of-the-art community infrastructure. Its engineering services include:
In addition to its design and consulting services, UAM provides a unique method for controlling costs associated with maintaining infrastructure. Its comprehensive Asset Protection Program (APP®) begins with a structured preventive maintenance program, which is coupled with guarantees in the form of insurance. APP is increases the reliability of equipment, automate the repair/tracking system, and integrates bill paying while stabilizing or even reducing maintenance costs. |
