ZeroEnergy Design

Take a Virtual High Performance Home Tour with ZeroEnergy Design

  Check out ZeroEnergy Design’s Belmont, MA high performance home, and take this online tour at your convenience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwQjDvc_XSU!  ZED’s Matt Genaze and Auburndale Builders' Ryan McCarthy walk us through this energy efficient home, including design, systems, renewable energy, and more.   The owners of this 1960s split level home, located next to a nature...

AIA 2030 Recognizes ZeroEnergy Design's Achievements in Portfolio-wide EUI Achievement

Congratulations to Rate It Green Member Zero Energy Design!  ZED was recently recognized by the American Association of Architects (AIA) for being one of only 27 US architectural firms where a 70% or greater Energy Use Intensity (EUI) savings was achieved across the entire firm's portfolio in 2019.   The AIA 2030 Commitment program supports the AIA 2030 Challenge, which calls for all new construction and major renovations...

Stephanie Horowitz of ZeroEnergy Design, Interviewed by Architectural Digest on Architecture and Climate Change

Stephanie Horowitz, Managing Director at ZeroEnergy Design, a Rate It Green Member, was recently interviewed for an article by Elizabeth Stamp of Architectural Digest: “How the Architecture Industry Is Reacting to Climate Change.”  The article discusses the energy use and CO2 emissions that building construction contributes, and the opportunity and responsibility the field has to make an...

This is What LEED Platinum Living Looks Like - ZeroEnergy Design Delivers a Healthy and Green Home in a Massachusetts Suburb

When it comes to green building design, the sky really is the limit these days. Which also means that a green home can look as modern, as traditional, or whatever mix the client wants. We decided to highlight this ZeroEnergy Design project precisely because of how great it fit into its typical Massachusetts suburban neighborhood while also allowing the homeowners the flexibility to add some splash for themselves. You can also find ZeroEnergy...

Congratulations to ZeroEnergy Design for Receiving Fine Homebuilding's 2017 Award for Best Energy-Smart Home

Rate It Green Member ZeroEnergy Design has been awarded the 2017 Award for Best Energy-Smart Home, along with Thoughtforms Corpporation, for a Net Positive Farmhouse in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The Award is presented by Fine Homebuilding and Taunton Press for excellence in six building, design, and performance related categories. The Lincoln Net Positive Farmhouse shows that you can really have it all, consuming 70% less energy than a...

All-Electric Homes - MassSave Webinar Series Kickoff: The Case For Electrification, April 19, 3 pm EDT

This webinar will feature the Acton All-Electric Home. The recently launched All-Electric Home incentive is designed for single-family and two- to four-unit homes that achieve high-performance construction and utilize all-electric appliances for heating, cooling, water heating, and cooking.  As part of the launch of this new and exciting offer, this webinar series will feature deep dives into the experiences of builders,...

Learn the Benefits of Healthy, High Performing Homes, Free Webinar Hosted by Sustainable Wellesley, March 10, 7 pm

Are you Renovating or Building a New Home? Are you considering renovating or building a new home? Join local design experts on March 10 from 7:00-8:30 p.m. for a free webinar focused on healthy, high performing homes that offer value, comfort, and a way to reduce your emissions.   Topics covered include:   Retaining the Character of Existing Homes Rachel White, CEO of Byggmeister, a design/build firm, will share...

What does it really MEAN to build GREEN? Online, March 9, 3:30-5 pm ET

What will your footprint look like? Buildings generate nearly 40% of annual global carbon emissions. It’s our role as AEC professionals to help change that dire statistic through innovative green building strategies and practices. Join us as we hear from experts across Greater Boston on how our different disciplines are working together to create solutions for carbon footprint reduction and other climate change factors, with example...

Take a Protailor Green Building Pro Tour 3/20 with NESEA, Placetailor

Join NESEA for a Boston-area Green Building Pro Tour hosted by Placetailor. This Pro Tour will showcase two different projects, including the Hawthorne Youth Community Center and the Lamartine Lofts, located on the cusp of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, MA. Placetailor tour guides will talk about high performance structures, community engagement and education, and the realities of working in tight urban spaces. Tour a high performance multifamily...

Lincoln Net Positive Farmhouse, BSA, Committee on the Environment (COTE) June 19, 6pm, Boston, MA

ZeroEnergy Design's Stephanie Horowitz AIA presents one of the firm's net positive designs. This modern farmhouse ties into the cultural landscape of Lincoln, MA - a town known for its rich history, farming traditions, conservation efforts and visionary architecture. The goal was to design and build a new single family home that respects the neighborhood's agrarian roots, produces more energy than it consumes, and provides...

Reveal High Performance Energy Label - Free Webinar by International Living Institute, 9/27 - 10-11am Pacific

Join Vincent Martinez from Architecture 2030, Jordan Goldman from ZeroEnergy Design and Jack Newman from the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) to learn more about how ILFI's Reveal energy label can provide third-party verification for meeting the 2030 Challenge Targets. The newly updated Reveal label communicates your building’s energy efficiency and renewable production and procurement (if any) in one beautiful,...

USGBC MA Residential Committee April Meeting - ZeroEnergy Design Presenting, May 8, 5:45-8 pm

GUEST SPEAKER: Stephanie, Horowitz, AIA CPHC, ZeroEnergy Design (ZED) Stephanie is Managing Director of ZeroEnergy Design (ZED), a green architecture and energy consulting firm. The firm’s commitment to innovative and ecologically sensible design is reflected in their multidisciplinary knowledge base, which spans the fields of architecture, mechanical engineering and finance. ZED is committed to designing homes and buildings that use 50%...

Passive House Massachusetts Symposium- Sat, October 17, 2015 9 AM to 5 PM

Passive House Massachusetts Symposium Sat, October 17, 2015 9 AM to 5 PM A Symposium connecting Architects, Builders, Engineers, Home/Building Owners, Policymakers, Real Estate Professionals, Students and the general public. The mission is to further educate through lectures by and discussions with esteemed professionals local to Massachusetts. Vendors will also be showcasing products and services regarding Passive Homes. ...