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Primary links About Chapman Services Projects Sustainability People News & Features News Features New LEED Projects Wrap This Month Renewing Old School Relationships Celebrating "Best Places to Work" 2011! Efficient Upgrade - Condensing Boilers Kiva's Robots are on the Move! Infrared Thermography A Rooftop Oasis Blooms in Lynn Gifford School Rebuilds After Fire Lighting the Way to Sustainability Window Films Save Energy, Deliver Rapid Returns Breathing Easier During & After Construction Crowne Plaza's 298 Windows of Opportunity Producing More Power Than We Consume! LEDs Save Money, the Environment Chapman Earns Platinum! Chapman HQ a Sustainable Materials Resource Center Fit-Ups Good Candidates for LEED Archive Press Coverage Contact Search	Feature Articles New LEED Projects Wrap This Month This month, Chapman will complete work on two LEED projects on which we played very different roles -- construction manager on one, and sustainability consultant on the other. Chapman is providing... Renewing Old School Relationships For many of us, school is where we form our longest-lasting relationships, and for Chapman, school projects have always been much the same. Two recent ground-up projects gave us a chance to renew our... Celebrating "Best Places to Work" 2011! We're delighted to announce that Chapman has once again been named to the Boston Business Journal's "Best Places to Work" list, coming in at #7 in the Small Company category! We are also excited to... Efficient Upgrade - Condensing Boilers To increase a property's tenant appeal and market value, building owners and managers often pursue a combination of architectural improvements and mechanical system upgrades.When it came time for the... Kiva's Robots are on the Move! When progressive companies need to automate material handling at their distribution centers, they call Kiva Systems. And when Kiva Systems needed larger facilities to accommodate their rapid growth,... Infrared Thermography Often the most beneficial and cost-effective energy efficiency improvements for a structure involve sealing the building envelope. Heating and cooling costs rise dramatically when conditioned air is... A Rooftop Oasis Blooms in Lynn From wood shakes and asphalt shingles to PVC and EPDM, there are many ways to put a roof over your head and keep out the weather. Roofs can do much more than just keep us warm and dry though: white... Gifford School Rebuilds After Fire When an early-morning fire destroyed The Gifford School's multi-use Fenn Center on December 23, Executive Director Mike Bassichis reassured the Weston school's students and families that it would be... Lighting the Way to Sustainability If you follow The Boston Globe's annual Globe 100 list, which ranks the best-performing public companies in Massachusetts, you're probably familiar with Acme Packet, which leapt 51 spots to #29 on... Window Films Save Energy, Deliver Rapid Returns For immediate improvement in your building's performance and a rapid return on your investment, consider applying an energy-saving film to your windows. Among the many sustainable solutions Chapman's... Breathing Easier During & After Construction Figuratively speaking, it's good to "make the dust fly" during an interior renovation—clients want their work done with energy and speed—but the real dust and odors that are produced during... Crowne Plaza's 298 Windows of Opportunity How do you replace every window in an occupied hotel that stands directly above six lanes of highway traffic?If you said, "Very carefully," you'd be on the right track, but of course the full answer... 2009 YTD: Producing More Power Than We Consume! Through the first ten months of 2009, Chapman's 47 kW photovoltaic array has generated 53,112 kWh of electricity, while we've used just 52,387 kWh--a net overproduction of 750 kWh that spins our... LEDs Save Money, the Environment Relamping with LEDs can reduce operating and maintenance costs -- LEDs last longer than incandescent and fluorescent bulbs -- and they can qualify a business for federal tax incentives... Chapman Earns Platinum! We did it! We have achieved Platinum LEED certification for our office renovation. We earned 44 credits -- every credit we sought and two more than we needed for Platinum, the U.S. Green... Chapman HQ a Sustainable Materials Resource Center Continuing the mission we undertook with the LEED renovation of our office—to identify appropriate green products and materials for our clients—we have designated our headquarters a Sustainable... Fit-Ups Good Candidates for LEED Even a relatively small interior fit-up with a typical five-year lease is a good candidate for basic LEED certification.Chapman's build-outs for Artfact (5,000 sf) and Overdrive...

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