New Ecology, Inc.
Michelle Margolies is a project manager at New Ecology, Inc., with a focus on green building consulting since November 2021. Prior experience includes roles as an assistant project manager and a climate engineering intern at Transsolar KlimaEngineering. Michelle's background encompasses moisture management research for mass timber construction at Oregon State University, and practical experience as an apprentice at O2 Treehouse. Early career highlights include leading high school students on a 1000-mile bicycle tour and supervising waterfront activities at the Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute. Additional internships and roles involved architectural work at Joy Martin Architecture, facilitating a bamboo construction project in Ecuador, and contributing to the Department of Energy Solar Decathlon project, where an 800 square foot net-zero energy home was designed and built. Education includes a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, completed in 2020.
New Ecology, Inc.
New Ecology, Inc.’s mission is to catalyze sustainable development and bring its benefits to underserved populations, and to maintain a focus on acting locally to address global environmental issues. We work in many areas of community-based sustainable development, but we devote most of our efforts to green affordable housing. Our focus is on the practical and cost-effective: making new and existing buildings efficient, durable and healthy. Areas of Practice: Greening the New Construction of Affordable Housing; Greening Existing Affordable Housing and Community Buildings; Provide consulting services to non-profit and for-profit clients in the area of sustainable development, green building, and integrated design. Impact: New Ecology, Inc. works on 40-50 new construction projects each year and in the last 10 years has greened over 8,000 units of newly-constructed and rehabilitated multifamily housing and has also helped owners articulate and achieve their sustainability goals in schools, day-care centers, health care facilities, office buildings and community centers. Our Massachusetts Green Retrofit Initiative program has benchmarked 11,270 units, conducted assessments on 257 buildings totaling 5,410 units, and identified over $19,000,000 in potential energy and water retrofits with estimated savings in excess of $2,000,000 annually. To date NEI has assisted owners in implementing over $14 Million of these retrofits.