At SmithGroupJJR's Phoenix office, design excellence and sustainability are synonymous. The office has been responsible for 11 LEED-certified projects and has 12 more pending, but the firm's design philosophy has also brought some of the same sustainable features that SmithGroupJJR would employ on a LEED-Platinum project—high-performance building envelopes, energy modeling, daylight analysis and natural ventilation—to most of their other projects..
"I joke with clients [that] if you don't want a sustainable building, you're going to get one regardless because that's who we are and how we think about the projects we are doing," says Mark Roddy, design principal.