NESEA Business Member Directory

O’Brien Wood & Iron is a full-service design-build company combining high-quality craftsmanship with superior customer service. We create spaces that are high-performing and aesthetically stunning. New construction, additions, remodels. Renovations of existing spaces and restoration of old ones. Our personal areas of interest and expertise range from historic preservation and residential carpentry to traditional boatbuilding, Passive House standards, and high-end home design & construction.

Onion Flats Architecture’s focus on community development, multidisciplinary thinking and making, high-performance building technologies and alternative construction methodologies has won the firm national and international awards. Featuring the R&D Award from Architect Magazine, the Green Building United’s Ground Breaker Award, the ULI Willard Rouse Award for Excellence, the International Passive House Award, the ULI Global Award of Excellence, and the Emerging Voices Award by the Architectural League of New York.

At Oxygen8, we help create healthy spaces for people to live, work, and play in an energy-efficient way. With a history of problem-solving through entrepreneurship, innovation, and clean technology, Oxygen8 is proud to offer commercial and multi-unit residential ventilation solutions that help create comfortable indoor environments. Our solutions provide 100% fresh, filtered outside air to building occupants using a membrane-based high-efficiency energy recovery technology, MERV-13 filtration, and Daikin VRV heat pump technology for accurate temperature and humidity control. Oxygen8's commercial products have an airflow range of 325 - 10,000 cfm and depths as low as 16".

Pachano & Vollert is an architecture and design office based in New York and Massachusetts. P&V specializes in elevating the quality of people’s lives through architecture. We create spaces that inspire discovery. Our approach is simultaneously exploratory, technical, and responsive to each client and specific project’s needs and environment. Our process reveals what is at first not apparent and exposes new possibilities. Our work extends over a range of projects and scales, including buildings, houses, renovations, interiors, and furniture. Regardless of scale, we are committed to being curiously engaged with every detail to create a cohesive ensemble.

We’re a multidisciplinary design, architecture, and engineering firm with 1,300+ talented staff and offices in the U.S. and abroad. Our work consists mainly of complex projects that benefit from our integrated disciplines and significantly impact the communities they serve.

Paradigm Energy Services provides energy efficiency services to multi-family and single-family residences throughout Massachusetts. We install weatherization, air sealing, air source heat pumps, windows, smart thermostats, heating system replacements, ancillary mechanical measures, building controls, lighting, appliances, and more. We are a Mass Save Partner and have served over 120,000 residences in Massachusetts.

At Passive to Positive, we push the envelope on low environmental impact, healthy, energy-resilient architecture and consulting from single-family, multi-family, commercial, and institutional passive house/zero energy, zero carbon projects to holistic, energy-resilient, regenerative neighborhoods. We are not your average firm; we are visionaries in the fields of resilience, carbon reduction, energy reduction, and regenerative design. We provide consulting services to architects, developers, non-profits, and building owners. We are also a full-service architecture firm for single-family residential, small commercial and community buildings, and small-scale multi-family developments.

Mission: passivhausMAINE is a non-profit organization committed to decreasing carbon emissions, dependency on fossil fuels, and the costs of winter heating in Maine. It works to support the passive house industry and community in Maine, North America, and internationally. Vision: passivhausMAINE’s vision is for a more resilient and energy-independent Maine. Through training, education, and policy action, we support initiatives to build awareness for a Maine that operates on 100% renewable power. We seek to encourage passive house as the minimum building standard on the path towards 100% Net Zero, Net Positive, and fully regenerative buildings throughout the state.

Paul Lukez Architecture (PLA) was established in 1992 as a studio to combine a love of creative and sustainable design with a commitment to service. PLA has served a wide range of clients and designed a variety of distinctive works over its 30-plus years of existence. Given our design process and experience, we can work across large, medium, and small projects. In 2021, PLA founded PLASES – a studio focused exclusively on our growing portfolio of sustainable projects. The PLA staff comprises highly skilled, talented individuals whose enthusiasm and energy are matched only by their commitment to the highest quality design. PLA’s pursuit of quality has been rewarded with more than 60 national and international design awards.

Performance Building Supply specializes in the highest-performing European windows and doors, providing for residential and commercial projects alike. Its focus is on passive houses, net-zero, and low-energy builds. Performance Building Supply is also the largest US distributor of SIGA Tapes and Membranes, selling nation-wide through PerformanceBuildingTapes.com.

Phase Change Solutions (PCS) is a global leader in developing and supplying phase change materials (PCMs). The company's proprietary PCMs, collectively referred to as BioPCM®, have been certified to include 100% bio-based content and are listed among the USDA's BioPreferred® products. The BioPCM® platform uses a combination of naturally-available materials, waste streams from the petrochemical industry, and additives. PCS is a smart materials company focused on temperature management across a range of industries, including cold chain, buildings, solar PV, and energy storage.

pHdesign is a full service New York-based architecture practice focused on maximizing what our clients have to work with, whether it is an existing building, a plot of land, a nonprofit budget, or a neighborhood block.

We apply the most appropriate and efficient sustainable design solutions to every project, merging an eye for modern design with functionality, beauty, and a vision for your future. Responsibility is a core value at pHdesign; our clients see this manifested in our commitment to their projects' success, to bettering the community fabric, and lessening the environmental impact of the spaces we create.