Where to Begin?
Reducing your energy consumption can offer compelling economic and environmental benefits, but it's also hard to know where to begin. Installing a solar array might cut your power bill sharply, but it probably only makes economic sense after you've taken every opportunity to reduce your overall energy use through improvements to your lighting, HVAC system, or building envelope.

How Chapman Can Help
Chapman developed its Building Performance & Renewable Energy Services to help clients take advantage of the diverse energy-saving opportunities available to them. Chapman's green expertise—nearly 40% of our staff is LEED accredited—combined with its 25 years of construction management success makes it uniquely qualified to identify and execute a variety of upgrades.

Chapman's service begins with a survey, analyzing the client's property for opportunities to cut energy use through strategies like daylighting to reduce lighting power density, shading to reduce cooling loads, and high efficiency fixtures that qualify for utility company rebates. Chapman can also determine, through sunlight and shading studies, whether the building is suitable for a renewable energy system like a solar array.

Based on this survey, Chapman delivers a report and a preliminary budget estimating the payback period for the proposed improvements, also exploring current rebate opportunities, tax incentives, and grants. Once the client has selected the options that make sense for them, Chapman then manages the project from start to finish, bidding the work to multiple subcontractors in all trades and applying the same collaborative, transparent construction management approach that Chapman's many long-term clients have enjoyed over the last quarter-century.

Our Showcase
Chapman recently completed a green renovation of its headquarters, slashing its own energy consumption and adding a 47kW solar array that now generates the vast majority of Chapman's electrical power. Chapman's new service will make it easier and more cost-effective for clients to undertake similar changes, working with a single company that can handle it all from start to finish.