As the Co-Chair of the Association of Preservation Technology’s Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation and as Principal and Director of Sustainable Design at QUINN/EVANS ARCHITECTS, Carl Elefante, AIA, LEED AP, has extensive experience with the concurrent use of green design and historic preservation in rehabilitation projects. His article, “The Greenest Building Is…One That Is Already Built,” has become one of the most widely read and quoted in efforts to encourage such practice among architects, developers, homeowners, and preservationists.

Calculate your home’s embodied energy and learn more about why “the greenest building is…one that is already built”.

At the Historic Districts Council Annual Conference in New York City, on March 10, 2007, Donovan Rypkema, Principal of PlaceEconomics, presented “Sustainability, Smart Growth and Historic Preservation”, a talk that highlights how uniting historic preservation and green building principles involves both energy conservation as well as economic and community sustainability.

James O'Brien of The Boston Globe describes how owners of an 1870s Colonial Revival home retrofitted their building to save money on energy consumption in the winter months in, "Time to Button Up: a Variety of Choices Are Available to Help You Fight Back Winter's Cold."

The National Institute of Building Science’s Whole Building Design Guide Committee illustrates the ways in which historic preservation is “inherently sustainable.”

RenewableEnergyWorld.com discusses how preservation and green building principles are being used together in the rehabilitation of neighborhoods in New Orleans in "Combining Preservation and Sustainability in the Big Easy" .

Nancy A. Solomon, AIA, describes common concerns, conflicts, and policy involved in projects using both sustainable practices and historic preservation in “Tapping the Synergies of Green Building and Historic Preservation".

Changes to LEED™ Incorporate the Sustainable Benefits of Historic Buildings