Dive Brief:

• Green is good, but sustainable is better, and seven people in six small, central Pennsylvania firms have formed an alliance to try to design sustainable building and promote the higher standard.
• Design Synergies Green Build Partnership includes four architects, a brownfields-reclamation specialist, an expert in LEED and Living Building Challenge certification and an engineer.
• The group's introductory material says that even though as a society "we have made tremendous strides in developing green buildings in the area, with many buildings achieving LEED certification, we have a long way to go to become sustainable."

Dive Insight:

Tom Gibson, who is the engineer in the group, says that the diverse capabilities are wrapped together with a "passion" for sustainable design and construction. The group says it can cover the Middle Atlantic area from its base in central Pennsylvania.