Maclay Architects specializes in ecological planning and architecture, healthy building design, micro-load, and net zero building design and received the 2012 NESEA Zero Net Energy Building Award. The firm's project portfolio includes seventeen LEED Gold or Platinum certified buildings and ten net zero or net zero ready institutional and commercial projects. Bill Maclay and Maclay Architects authored a book titled: "The New Net Zero: Leading-Edge Design and Construction of Homes and Buildings for a Renewable Energy Future" by Chelsea Green Publishing. Bill Maclay, FAIA, LEED-AP, and founding principal of Maclay Architects, has been recognized as a leader in innovative, healthy, and ecological planning and architectural design since 1971.