These multi-disciplined capabilities enable an integrated whole-building approach to facility design – allowing for the simultaneous consideration of site, facility, and engineering/building systems.

Gauthier, Alvarado & Associates realizes that a building – with its unique functional and programmatic requirements along with its component facility engineering systems – and the site on which it sits are inexorably connected. These two elements - building and site - must be considered together and respond to each other if lasting quality and value are to be achieved in a project.

The firm proactively promotes the principles of sustainable design into its projects. This includes development of concepts that foster the environmental benefits, health & safety benefits, as well as economic benefits of green design. The integrated whole-building design approach fostered by the firm serves to strengthen the firm’s abilities to employ the sustainable precepts into each project.

Gauthier, Alvarado & Associates is a member of the US Green Building Council and has a LEED™ Certified Professional on staff.