Improving Lives Through the Built Environment.
At ReArch, we are taking big strides toward a greener future!
By focusing on environmental goals and objectives, we aim to make a significant impact in reducing our carbon footprint and promoting
sustainable practices.
To help us achieve our goals, we have formed a sustainability team to develop and roll out initiatives on our path to combat climate change.
Our team focuses on:
ReArch’s values, perspectives, and the needs of our customers are reflected in our priorities. These include:
- Building High-Performance Buildings
- Smart Product Selections
- Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
- Improving the Working Environment For Our Field Staff
- Reducing and Diverting our Construction Waste
Built for energy efficiency
At ReArch, we know the importance of achieving an ultra-tight building envelope as a simple means to reduce annual energy consumption and to construct a resilient low-maintenance building.
Airtightness ratings for ReArch projects
Airtightness Scale – We document each of our projects to ensure that they are achieving a high-performance building or better. The scale shows the air infiltration rate in CFM/sf of surface area at 50 pascals. A 0.05 rating is considered passive house standard, 0.15 is ultra-tight, and 0.25 is high-performance.
Office Sustainability Initiatives:
- K cup recycling
- No single-use plastic
- Free personal composting
- All rechargeable batteries
- 100% recycled paper on all materials
- Green Up Day Vermont-23 bags of trash collected
The Wentworth Housing projects blower door test was tied for first out of all the buildings we have tested in New England for air tightness, with an air infiltration rate of 0.0375 CFM50/sf.
Leaders in Sustainability
ReArch Company is a platinum member of the Vermont Green Building Network, a Gold member of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, and has several sustainability team leaders that are members of Building Green’s Sustainable Construction Leaders Peer Network.
We are proud to have experience working on LEED Certified, Passive House, Net Zero Energy Ready, Living Building Challenge, and Mass Timber projects.
