Environment Associates - Architects & Consultants

STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
AND WORK

Since 1975,
ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATES has been committed to creating superior living environments
for those seeking quality of life at home.

Our commitment to sustainable principles resulted in: our founder's appointment
as an advisor to both the Governor's and the Texas Energy Advisory Councils;
helping found several non-profits including the Houston and the Texas Solar Energy Societies;
and being designated a national & local "Houston Hero" for the Environment.
His pioneering efforts led Environment Associates (EA) to become the architects
for the Southern Solar Energy Center's "Houston's Passive Solar Demonstration Home,"
the recipient of the prestigious Houston Audubon Society's "Hershey Conservation Award,"
and several green home and LEED® for Homes firsts and design awards.

Houston Audubon Society's 1993
"Hershey Conservation Award."

Striving to set thresholds, standards, and a consensus definition for sustainable living and works,
EA designs and cultivates climate-based technical and aesthetic solutions that wholistically work
to create better living environments. By creatively designing each project according to the special
needs and desires of each client, the building site's specific microclimate, terrain and surroundings,
and upon green building and EA's Design for Passive Sustainability concepts, our clients projects become very energy
efficient, more durable, healthy, and cost effective to build,
and are fundamentally more enjoyable and beneficial to live in and to be around .

To avoid conflict of interest behaviors that we believe are not in the best interest
of homeowners and which ethically plague business and life in general in the U.S today, we do not:
sell the building products we specify or use; accept commissions from those wanting to pay us for
recommending their products or services; pay commissions for referrals of clients to us;
provide rating services; nor engage in design/build type services that
combine design services with construction contracting.

As when we began our practice over 35 years ago, we remain committed
to eliminating the causes of sick buildings and to eliminating the needless and senseless waste of
natural, human and financial resources. Through the careful employment of proven climate-based, green
architectural concepts that lead to sustainability, healthy building expertise, building science,
and the use of appropriate construction methods and components, we have demonstrated time
after time that highly attractive, practical, healthy, and nurturing environments
can be created from and for wherever our clients, live, work, or play.