Environment

Randall Stout Architects understands the impact of design and construction on the global environment.  Staffed with a talented team of LEED accredited architects, we are firmly committed to environmental conservation through sustainable designs that utilize renewable resources and energy efficient systems. Our spaces and forms respond to the particular environmental design criteria of each site and program, resulting in a unique and symbiotic relationship between architecture, microclimate and site characteristics. At RSA, environmental design entails much more than the addition of solar and resource-conserving components to conventional architecture.  It is an integral aspect of our holistic design process.

Designing projects in Europe -- and particularly in Germany, where sustainability is imbued in the national culture -- provided us with valuable insights into the broad spectrum of public policy, financing, utility infrastructure, and building codes that cumulatively support sustainability.  RSA experience extends well beyond the design realm and LEED certification to assist the client in understanding the non-architectural aspects of sustainable design, such as life-cycle cost analysis, as well as advanced energy technologies including co-generation, waste heat recovery, and hydrogen fuel cell technologies.

To date, our projects include an annual carbon dioxide reduction of 38,500 cubic tons in comparison to conventional construction.  Our project designs and specifications routinely feature daylighting, enhanced indoor environmental quality, as well as recycled content products and recyclable materials, to maximize occupant well-being.

Recognized for our design and environmental excellence, RSA has received numerous and national awards in the United States and Germany.  In addition to our commitment to the environment through sustainable designs, we are also highly active in promoting sustainable design principles within the community and the academy.

Randall Stout is a LEED accredited architect, who actively serves on the AIA California Council Sustainability Task Force and the AIA Committee on the Environment.  Moreover, he has spoken at numerous environmental lectures, such as: "Benchmarking Public Policy Mandates for Environmentally Responsible Development" at USC School of Policy, Planning and Development; "Key to the Global Thermostat: The Architect's Role in Global Warming", at the Los Angeles Symposium, "Solar Symposium" at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power; and "Emerging Architecture" at the American Solar Energy Society National Conference.  Among the various publications that feature sustainable RSA projects, Mr. Stout has also contributed his own works, including Building Envelopes, published by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, and Environmental Alchemy: Randall Stout Architects, published by Edizioni Press.

Click here for Randall Stout's essay "Architecture, Energy and the Environment,"
from his monograph, Environmental Alchemy: Randall Stout Architects.