Re:Vision Architecture

We're hiring! Our future “Re:Visionary” Project Manager in our High Performance Sustainability Consulting Studio will demonstrate experience and commitment for sustainability through professional or personal activity – or both. You have 3-10 years of experience with LEED, Living Building Challenge, Passive House, WELL, B Corp, Just, and/or other green building experience. You have practical experience in developing and implementing sustainability concepts and strategies, have a deep understanding of sustainable design, and have experience in or around the design and construction process. You can effectively manage multiple projects and teams, are skilled at tracking a high volume of information, and are creative in your approach to motivate and inspire others. Experience in building enclosure commissioning, building performance modeling, or any of our other consulting services is a plus. You get our WHY and HOW and will contribute to our mission driven goals. As part of our application process, to help us see your creativity, your skills, and your process, you have up to 5 minutes, 5 slides, or 750 words in a format of your choosing to: Tell us your WHY. Explain HOW you will thrive in this environment. Describe WHAT you will bring to the team to help us work towards our vision and achieve our mission. Re:Vision values diversity, equity, and inclusion as underpinnings of a more sustainable future. Candidates who bring increased cultural diversity (broadly defined) or gender balance to our studio are encouraged to apply. To learn more, and to send expressions of interest and relevant materials, visit https://lnkd.in/eAwQ786p (please note that the link on this page is the only site where we review applications) Our first-round interviews are expected to begin early May 2025. #AuthenticSustainability #Hiring

Drew and Kristen have been reflecting on their recent time at Grace Farms Foundation Design for Freedom Summit. Some big ideas that stuck with them:   1. Slavery will not go away on it is own. We need to make sure we advocate for fair labor practices everywhere we have buying power – and architects control a lot of spending through their material choices and specifications! Our actions have so much power. We got material ingredient transparency because architects asked – what if we did the same with slavery? 2. This work can’t only be on the end users. Although the US enacted laws in 1930 to protect against importing goods made with enslaved labor, the enforcement isn’t as robust as we need it to be, and our import laws don’t protect in other countries. Just as the solution to the problem of plastic waste is now to be solved by consumers through precarious and often impossible recycling streams - instead of by manufacturers and suppliers - the problem of enslaved labor built into the system intentionally by manufacturers also cannot be undone by buyers alone. We need to make sure our elected officials understand the gravity of the problem and can enforce solutions within our existing laws. 3. Sustainability must include ethics. If the work we do isn’t good for people, it isn’t sustainable. As we advocate for good in the built environment, including Net Zero Energy goals and increasing use of batteries, we have to ensure we don’t make embodied slavery worse by turning a blind eye to the human impacts of material extraction in these risky industries. 4. As we increasingly focus on well-being in our built environment, we should also ask “whose well-being does this project support?"    This event reminded us of the importance of our specifications as a tool for change, and energized us to continue to evaluate all products for slavery risk before we put them in our base project specifications.   How are you including human rights in your work? #AuthenticSustainability #WorkingTogether #DesignForFreedom

It's not every house that can have a glass floor, efficient operation, and a sweet bike storage room - we're excited to show off ours at the AIA Philadelphia Home Tours on May 17! #AuthenticSustainability #AIAPhillyHomeTours

It’s B Corp Month, a time to raise awareness of the B Corp movement. The B Corp Certification is more than a mark: it’s a way of seeing the world and leading for good. We’ve proudly been a B Corp since 2007, one of the first class of only 19 companies who inaugurated this change we wanted to see in the world. It has grown into a global network of almost 10,000 companies strong, making a difference in the lives of over 100,000 employees and even more communities around them. Being a B Corp has changed how we do business for the better – so much that we consult with other organizations to help them become B Corps! We love talking to other B Corps about ways we can collaborate and support each other in our aligned missions, and love chatting with folks who want to know more about the benefits we’ve seen in being a B Corp. Send us a message if you want to talk! #AuthenticSustainability #BCorp #BCorpMonth

Trifecta! Hot off the presses, Muhlenberg College's Fahy Commons is now officially Phius Certified as a Passive House, in addition to already achieving Living Building Challenge Core Certification and LEED Platinum! Earning Passive House certification means the project is designed and tested to perform well above and beyond other buildings when it comes to comfort, efficiency, and resilience in extreme temperatures. It's the largest non-residential Phius Certified project in Pennsylvania. Passive House wasn't part of the College's original project directive, but we knew that Passive House was the efficiency path to achieve the energy targets of Living Building Challenge Core, so we designed the project to achieve Passive House from the earliest stages. While achieving certification isn't exactly easy, adding the certification to a building that was already designed to achieve it is certainly easier than the alternative, and was a light lift here. #Phius #PassiveHouse #AuthenticSustainability #LivingBuildingChallenge

We've seen the value of organizational transparency for years, and we're looking forward to sharing our experience with you at Thursday's event! #AuthenticSustainability #BCorp #JustLabel

How do Living Building Challenge Core and Phius REVIVE apply to a Philadelphia rowhouse? That's the question Joe Messier has been exploring as part of Green Building United's learning series. Over three sessions, with two more to go, Joe and other members of the Re:Vision team have been been exploring human health and environmental impact in high performance materials, strategies for air tightness, and will continue to explore questions about mechanical systems, site impacts, and more. This series has brought Passive House practitioners together with Living Future devotees to build community through knowledge sharing - and pizza. We're excited for the next session on March 11 (that's tomorrow)! https://lnkd.in/eV2mkStp #AuthenticSustainability #LivingBuildingChallenge #PhiusRevive

We're looking forward to returning to Grace Farms and continuing the important conversation around Design for Freedom by Grace Farms to remove slavery from the building material supply chain. We've seen the impact of this important work in the ways our project teams are talking about our projects internally, and in the ways our teams are talking with outside companies. Let us know if we'll see you in CT so we can join forces and strengthen the impact of this work! #AuthenticSustainability #DesignForFreedom

Building enclosure commissioning is not just part of a LEED prerequisite, it's a great way for owners to to verify the building envelope is designed, constructed, and tested to perform in an efficient way to meet their requirements above and beyond LEED. Enclosure commissioning helps minimize air and water leaks, improve building performance, and provide peace of mind. Re:Vision has four certified Building Enclosure Commissioning Process Providers ready to help teams achieve project goals. #AuthenticSustainability #BECx #LEED

Go Birds - and Superb Owls! We're fans of birds all the time, and green is in our DNA. As we strut into this weekend confident in the outcome of Sunday's rematch, we're practicing our spelling, ordering our snacks, and getting ready to FLY! E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles! #GoBirds #SuperbOwl #SBLIX