LEED architect launches Natura Architectural Consulting, seeks two building systems analysts

LEED-certified architect and green building consultant Nate Gillette heard opportunity loud and clear when it knocked. After a recent reorganization within the company he worked for, PM Environmental, Gillette, a veteran architect and green building expert, decided it was time to launch his own company, Natura Architectural Consulting.

Natura Architectural Consulting is at 949 Wealthy St. SE, next door to Bazzani Associates, where Gillette was a LEED architect for five years. Right now, all of Natura's projects are outside the state, with "more projects going on in L.A. than in the Midwest," Gillette says.

Natura has two full-time employees, and Gillette says he is ready to hire two building systems analysts "last week."

"The main buckets of work that we are involved in are energy and sustainability consulting, doing energy audits of commercial buildings, energy management work, and working on LEED and green building projects where we can either consult from the planning phase and work with the architects, or can document the entire process," Gillette says.

The company also handles due diligence for lenders or mortgage originators who need to determine potential future repairs of a building's systems over the life of a loan. Gillette says he's working with a lot of specialized multi-family projects involving HUD properties and low-income housing developers that need to acquire and renovate buildings to green standards.  

Candidates for the building systems analyst positions would have backgrounds in understanding building systems -- such as facilities management experience or an architect -- with strong technical writing abilities.

"We have to do the field work, take photos, analyze the condition of the systems, take the data we've written in the field and create a report for the client," Gillette says. "We need people that are able to do the field analysis, and ideally, write the technical report. Flexibility is the key in all of this. We need someone with the ability to travel a little bit without being landlocked at home."

To apply, send a resume, cover letter, and a technical writing sample to [email protected].

Writer: Deborah Johnson Wood, Development News Editor