NESEA Business Member Directory

Terra Design-Build provides residential and light commercial design services for renovations, additions, adaptive reuse, new homes, building evaluations, and energy consultations. Our guiding principles are to use sustainable design principles, seek out earth-friendly material choices, and reduce fossil fuel use and carbon emissions. Owner/Architect Wendy Brown, AIA, has been involved in Berkshire County building since she started as a drafter for BETNR Construction at age 15 back in the 1980s. She's licensed in Massachusetts and Vermont. We prefer to have the Owner, Architect, and Contractor work as a team for collaborative results.

The Green Engineer, Inc. is a sustainable design consulting firm specializing in energy-efficient and sustainable design solutions for the built environment. Founded in 2005 by Christopher Schaffner, PE, LEED Fellow, the firm currently has a staff of 26, with 24 LEED-accredited professionals. Our team members consist of sustainability consultants and building performance analysts. Our expert team brings to the table experience and perspective from a variety of backgrounds, including engineering, architecture, construction, planning, development, and public policy. An Employee-Owned, Massachusetts Benefit Corporation and B Corporation.

We are a network of conscious, inspired innovation and change leaders who desire to make a difference in our world. We are interested in increasing awareness of self in service of our collective reality so that we may begin to bring our authentic self in all we do, live a more joyful and fulfilling life, and create a better world. Our consulting, coaching, and learning programs enable people at all levels to shift toward a more conscious and collective way of leading, one that more effectively leverages the strengths of individuals and their commitment to the success of the whole. Collective Leadership boosts collaboration, builds organizational agility and resilience, and creates deeper engagement with customers/stakeholders.

Established in 1991 by Founder and Principal Wayne Turett, The Turett Collaborative is a diverse, environmentally-conscious, modern architecture and interior firm based in Tribeca. The firm’s portfolio of work over three decades reflects its longstanding commitment to green building and design, advocating for innovative and sustainable solutions across both commercial and residential projects. In addition to the NESEA, the firm is a USGBC member organization. A licensed, LEED-credentialed architect, Turett is also an active member of ADPSR, which works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, and social justice.

The Valle Group sets the standard for thoughtfully planned communities in southern New England. The company's special expertise is planning and creating communities of quality, energy-efficient homes and building and remodeling for homeowners.

Thornton Tomasetti collaborates on the design of sustainable buildings to provide innovative solutions that greatly reduce operational and embodied carbon and contribute to more resilient buildings and communities. Using whole building environmental and advanced energy analysis, we’ll help you make sure your buildings are performing at the highest level for optimal operational performance and occupant comfort. Our multidisciplinary staff consults on green building certifications, including Passive House Certification, Net Zero Energy Buildings, Living Building Challenge design, Embodied Carbon Optimization, and BECx Commissioning.

Thoughtforms Corporation specializes in building high-end custom homes and unique institutional buildings in eastern Massachusetts. Clients trust Thoughtforms to deliver custom quality in a transparent and informative way and to be a long term partner. The quality clients expect extends far beyond the level of finish and what can be seen in the here and now and includes the health and comfort of the indoor environment, energy use, durability, and technology, among other elements.

We specialize in designing and building natural, soulful, resilient and energy efficient homes, timber frames, tree forms, scribe work, Vermont materials, net zero homes, timber framed solar pavilions, barns & outdoor structures, spiral stairs & compound roofs.

TimberHP by GO Lab, Inc. is a privately held, Maine-based building products corporation founded in 2017 to develop and manufacture wood fiber insulation for the residential and light commercial construction markets. Wood fiberboard, batt, and blown-in high-performance insulation products are vapor open, renewable, recyclable, nontoxic, carbon sequestering, and, when manufactured here in America, cost-competitive with other popular insulation products. In 2023, GO Lab will become one of the first companies to make wood fiber insulation in North America at its manufacturing facility in Madison, Maine.

Mr. MacLean is an architect, educator, and licensed builder who began his career as a project manager with a number of large architectural firms in Boston before he started his own firm, Timeless Architecture, in 1988. He has been promoting and teaching green design for 35 years, beginning with the Boston Society for Architecture, where he served as co-chair of the Committee on the Environment (COTE), a sub-committee that promotes sustainable design in the New England Region. He has taught and developed ongoing curricula at the Boston Architectural College, Sustainable Design Institute, and Master’s program, as well as Wentworth Institute of Technology.

The Building Design and Construction Department of the Town of Needham supports the Permanent Public Building Committee (PPBC). It helps advise and support the town manager on facility construction, planning, and operational needs. Town-owned building projects with a total cost of $500,000 or more that involves construction, reconstruction, enlargement, or alteration are assigned to PPBC to oversee unless the committee defers jurisdiction in the instance where a project includes little or no actual building construction.

Tree Nail is rooted in a motivation to build with a high level of craft and environmental consciousness. We have branched out to form a hardworking team of creative and conscientious problem solvers. The culture that sustains Tree Nail is a fertile cycle of collaboration among great people committed to great results. Our specialties are new homes, renovations, timber frames, and woodwork for the Adirondacks.