Current USGBC-NCC Sponsors

Platinum

NECA has provided over a century of service to the $130 billion electrical construction industry that brings power, light, and communication technology to buildings and communities across the United States. NECA’s national and 119 local chapters advance the industry through advocacy, education, research, and standards development.

From Oracle World Headquarters to the W San Francisco and W San Diego, we are proud to say that we've built many of California's landmark buildings during the last thirty years. We believe that three key factors contribute to the success of every project.

Principals take an active role in every project - providing cost-effective solutions during the preconstruction period and leadership during the construction phase.

As hands-on builders, we have the technical expertise needed to design smart, cost-effective building solutions. We utilize the skills of the talented people in our design build and concrete divisions to ask the right questions and make intelligent suggestions that can provide the key to a successful project.

Our commitment to maintain honest and open communications with the client, architect, engineer, and other members of the team means that everyone is working toward the same goals, creating a productive and efficient environment.

Gold

	Adura Technologies provides a cost-effective wireless lighting control solution for retrofit, renovation, and new construction of commercial buildings. With Adura's wireless control solution, building owners, tenants, and facility managers can implement energy efficiency and load curtailment strategies to reduce operating costs and their carbon footprint at 1/3 the cost of traditional control systems. In an independent study conducted by PG&E, Adura delivered 70% energy savings and increased occupant satisfaction with personal lighting control. Adura's solution qualifies for LEED credits, energy efficiency and demand response utility rebates and won the 2009 Clean Tech Open Alumni Award. Cypress Envirosystems provides technologies to retrofit existing facilities for energy efficiency, auto-demand response, and lower maintenance costs. This includes HVAC pneumatic controls for commercial buildings, and steam, compressed air and rotating equipment for industrial plants. Their technologies are non-invasive, take minutes to install, and typically pay back in 18 months or less.
	Hanson Bridgett LLP is an industry leader in green building and sustainable development, providing specialized expertise to developers, contractors, architects and other real estate professionals in the areas of LEED® project certification, integrated project delivery, green building law compliance, professional contract documentation, federal and state financial incentives and green leasing. In addition, seven Hanson Bridgett attorneys have earned certification as U.S. Green Building Council LEED® Accredited Professionals, enabling the firm to better advise clients on green building codes. As a firm Hanson Bridgett is a San Francisco certified green business, a B corporation, member of the National USGBC and a sponsor of the Northern California chapter of the USGBC. Our well known forums on sustainability bring together thought leaders in all aspects of sustainability including Green Building. We are helping our clients build for the future.
	With over four decades of building experience, Rudolph and Sletten has built a reputation for honest dealing, fair pricing, and a commitment to quality. Our experience includes the construction of numerous LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certiﬁed projects. We are a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, with 180 LEED Accredited Professionals in-house. Our resources and experience enable us to offer valuable input regarding a building’s construction materials and efﬁcient use of resources, saving our clients money and reducing the impact of building projects on the environment.
	Serious Materials develops and manufactures sustainable green building materials that save energy, save money, improve comfort and aggressively address climate change. The company was voted #1 at Cleantech Forum XII, won Global Gypsum Product of the Year 2008, won the first Aspen Institute award for innovation in Energy Conservation and was awarded Green Product of the Year by Popular Science. It has also been recognized by TIME/CNN, Fortune, Business Week, AlwaysOn and Red Herring as one of the top green technology companies. SeriousWindows and SeriousGlass reduce heating and cooling energy costs by up to 50% and improve occupant comfort. QuietRock® soundproof drywall and QuietHome Windows® reduce material use, enhance livability, and support dense sustainable urban construction. And EcoRock™ uses 80% less energy in its core production and has the potential to save billions of pounds of CO2 annually making it the only true green alternative to gypsum drywall and five times more environmentally friendly. The company is working to create thousands of cleantech jobs here in the U.S.
	Our home here on earth faces a critical tipping point. Pressing environmental issues demand action to ease the effects of environmental crises and create proactive solutions for the future. As a business, XL Construction is committed to reducing our global footprint and supporting sustainable practices by making smart choices in our corporate lifestyle. As a service provider, we are dedicated to expanding green building practices. We provide value to our clients by helping them increase the efficiency of the resources they use, reducing their impact on the environment, and creating an atmosphere of well-being for their employees. -Approximately one-third of XL’s professional staff are LEED Accredited Professionals. -XL Construction administers the LEED process on 80 percent of our LEED projects. -25 percent of our revenue is from LEED registered projects. -Engineering News-Record named XL a Top Green Contractor. -XL Construction’s corporate headquarters is a LEED Silver Certified facility, and was given an Award of Excellence in the Adaptive Reuse/Renovation Design category at the AIA Santa Clara Valley Design Awards.

Silver

Argo Insurance Brokers	Argo Insurance Brokers, Inc is a regional insurance brokerage with National capabilities and a dedicated Green Real Estate Practice. Argo has been a leader in educating stakeholders of the benefits of building green and the insurance and risk management nuances associated with protecting their investments in sustainability. Argo has multiple programs available to members and affiliates of the USGBC including an exclusive Architects & Engineers Green Professional Liability program, USGBC Branch Insurance programs, and customized policies for owners, builders, and developers.
Green Building in Alameda County	StopWaste.Org is the Alameda County Waste Management Authority and the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board operating as one public agency. The Alameda County Waste Management Authority is a public joint-powers agency comprised of the County of Alameda, each of the fourteen cities within the county, and two sanitary districts that provide refuse collection services. Together with its specialized arm, the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board, the agency offers many programs in the areas of public education, green building, recycled product procurement, waste reduction, and market development. About the Green Building in Alameda County Program Debris from construction and demolition projects comprises over 20% of the materials disposed in Alameda County landfills. To reduce this waste, the Green Building in Alameda County Program has formed a public/private partnership with the construction and building industry. The program serves three target markets: Alameda County Waste Management Authority’s seventeen member agencies; design and building industry professionals; and residents of Alameda County.
Microdesk	In the AECO industry, the one constant is change. Microdesk addresses these challenges for you by providing business and technology consulting services that balance the latest software tools from Autodesk, ESRI, Google, Oracle and Adobe with the latest methods, including Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual Design & Construction (VD&C). To promote more intelligent and sustainable design, streamline construction and maximize efficiency in building operation and infrastructure management. We provide industry solutions that turn change into opportunity.
Pankow	Pankow Builders prides itself on innovation. Over 45 years ago Charlie Pankow founded his construction firm on the pioneering idea of design build construction. Today employees are using that same expertise and commitment to lead in the green building community. With over 50 LEED Accredited professionals, the company is developing best in class practices for all sizes of green building projects. Last year continued a string of successes with LEED Core & Shell, New Construction and Commercial Interiors projects. Pankow provides top notch client service by managing all aspects of LEED work from energy modeling, commissioning, product selection, “green value engineering”, innovative solutions and LEED project administration. Whether your project is large or small, call Pankow to collaborate on your next green building project.
Wendel, Rosen, Black, & Dean LLP	Wendel Rosen is home to a talented team of environmental lawyers. The attorneys in this group handle matters for both public and private sector clients on a variety of complex regulatory, permitting, due diligence, remediation, negotiation and litigation matters. Frequently dealing with local, state and federal regulatory bodies, the team helps clients to navigate projects through this highly technical landscape. Clients of this practice include commercial and residential real estate developers, public entities and redevelopment agencies, construction companies, and real property buyers and sellers, as well as companies from industrial, agricultural, chemical, pharmaceutical, high-technology, retail and manufacturing industries.

Certified

GCI General Contractors	GCI is a San Francisco based commercial contracting/construction management firm that specializes in commercial interior, corporate facility and building renovations throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. GCI has been an industry leader in promoting green construction practices and guidelines to the commercial real estate sector in San Francisco. Not only is GCI a strong proponent of LEED, they also support green design and construction outside of this process. GCI is committed to building in ways that protect the environment, minimize waste and energy consumption, and provide healthy indoor air quality during constructionn before tenant occupancy.
Mazetti Nash Lipsey Burch	Founded in 1962, M+NLB Nash Lipsey Burch (M+NLB) is a full-service mechanical, electrical, plumbing and technology consulting and design firm ,providing nontraditional engineering services in climate change consulting and medical equipment planning and procurement. M+NLB has been designing energy-efficient buildings for almost 50 years. As sustainable design has moved into the forefront of responsible building technology, so has our reputation as sustainable design experts with recognized projects along the west coast. M+NLB has participated in over 20 LEED® projects, seven of which are certified Gold. In addition, thirty percent of our staff is LEED Accredited. M+NLB has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Irvine, Portland, and Sacramento and recently merged with Nashville-based Nash Lipsey Burch who has additional offices in Baton Rouge and Houston. The combined firm serves the healthcare, mission critical, science and technology, and higher education sectors.
Swinerton Builders	Established in 1888 with California License No. 92 the Swinerton Family of Companies provides commercial construction, construction management and green consulting services. Swinerton is ranked among the nation’s top five Green Builders, has over 300 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff and was awarded the ‘2008 Green Builder of the Year’ by the San Francisco Business Times. With over 60 LEED projects under our belt, including our LEED-EB Gold headquarters, Swinerton continues to build its legacy as the Premier Green Builder in the West. An employee-owned company, Swinerton takes pride in delivering innovative construction solutions and outstanding customer services to a diverse range of clients that demand exacting performance. Swinerton has offices located throughout California, in Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.

Media Partners

	About McGraw-Hill Construction McGraw-Hill Construction connects people, projects and products across the construction industry. For more than a century, it has remained North America’s leading provider of project and product information, plans and specifications, and industry news, trends and forecasts. McGraw-Hill Construction serves more than one million customers in the $5.6 trillion global construction industry through Dodge, Sweets, Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, GreenSource, and 10 regional publications. To learn more, visit www.construction.com or follow @mhconstruction on Twitter. About The McGraw-Hill Companies Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a leading global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, Platts, Capital IQ, J.D. Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill Construction and Aviation Week. The Corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2009 were $5.95 billion. Additional information is available at www.mcgraw-hill.com.
	Sustainable Industries is an independent, award-winning magazine serving business leaders on the West Coast and beyond. With news, tools and analysis focused on the environmental and social components of business, Sustainable Industries connects the dots between key sectors such as Clean Energy, Green Building, Technology and Food to raise the stakes in a working definition of Sustainable Industries.
	The Registry is the Bay Area's premier real estate journal. It is distributed to commercial and residential real estate professionals ranging from architects and general contractors to building owners, developers, real estate attorneys, brokers, bankers, interior designers and more. Its mission is to fulfill the need for accurate, unbiased and timely news, analysis and information encompassing the complete spectrum of the real estate industry. The Registry is distributed monthly in the nine Bay Area counties and has a readership of 15,000 that is soon to double.