Simon & Associates, Inc. | Green Building Consultants

"Simon & Associates are valuable partners in San Francisco's efforts toward sustainability. I am always delighted to bring them in on a project, as their educational and leadership approach helps to build capacity among the city's design professionals, and the results are always innovating and inspiring."

Mark Palmer, LEED AP
Green Building Coordinator
City and County of San Francisco, SF Environment

Simon & Associates, Inc. Green Building Consultants is an internationally recognized green building consulting firm.

Lynn N. Simon, FAIA, a green building pioneer and a leading authority in the industry, established the firm in 1994. Simon & Associates, Inc. (S&A) uses a practical and collaborative approach to advance sustainable and healthy building design and construction practices. The firm's clients include design firms, as well as public, private, and non-profit building owners and developers, representing a variety of building types including institutional, educational, commercial, industrial, residential, and mixed-use developments.

S&A has been a member of the U.S. Green Building Council since its inception. The firm has consulted on numerous LEED certified projects, including some of the earliest projects to achieve LEED certification in California.

S&A is a federally and locally recognized Women-Owned Business Enterprise, and is recognized as a Small Business Enterprise by the State of California and the City & County of San Francisco. S&A is also a certified green business under the City & County of San Francisco’s Green Business program.

The firm's services include sustainability consulting, LEED consulting and project management, workshop facilitation, owner's representation, specifications review and materials research, green building policy development and implementation, speaking engagements, development of guidelines and educational resources, and presentations and trainings.

S&A consults on new and existing building projects. To address the needs of the existing buildings market, S&A works with property managers and building owners to achieve LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance certification.