ENVIRONMENT

At Granoff Architects we strive to use carbon mitigation, pollution prevention and environmental best practices in all we do; whether at work, in our developments or in our daily activities. We have an internal environmental strategy and management plan which drives our teams and measures their successes, as well as where we can improve.

We recognize that our buildings and developments, the result of our designs, will have the most significant environmental impact. We are further committed to exercising our professional skills in such a way as to minimize environmental impact and are committed to working with our clients, guiding, and designing with sustainability and environmental protection in mind. We work with our teams and our clients to undertake a sustainability assessment for every project such as LEED and Passive House. And we are pushing the boundaries in terms of new technologies that could further achieve environmental benefit. We strive to attain the highest achievable accreditation for any assessment method selected.

We are not just looking at designing for Net-Zero Carbon in build and delivery, but also in terms of long-term use. Managing ventilation and daylighting, our designs seek to make it easy for people to use our buildings more sustainably and comfortably.

We understand that good design can only be sustainable design.

SOCIAL

At GA, our Social Policies are focused on ethical behavior, equal opportunity, promoting diversity, health, wellbeing and safety. Our people and our clients are our most important assets. We have nurtured a team of extremely competent and credible individuals to drive growth and deliver sustainable developments for our clients, as well as the people who use our buildings. We strive to be an employer of choice and create a workplace environment that promotes diversity, equality, development, trust, and teamwork. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race.

GOVERNANCE

GA’s mission is to improve the built environment of our clients, the community, and the world. We seek to achieve this goal through a firm culture that supports happy, healthy, engaged people and that fosters social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Granoff Architects recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of customers’ personally identifiable data. GA is committed to protecting the confidentiality of our team’s medical data, and work with our insurer to protect the identities of our staff whenever illness or injury impacts their lives.