Our worker-owned cooperative operates off a triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit).
We integrate architecture, engineering, building, interiors, and solar on the island of Martha's Vineyard.
We currently hold the highest ever B-corp rating and are guided by the following principles:
PEOPLE & COMMUNITY
- Create long-term, stable, meaningful jobs with living wages and exemplary benefits.
- Support our families in every possible way.
- Nurture a culture of inclusion, learning, cooperation, teamwork, and fun.
- Encourage individual creativity, health, opportunity, and fulfillment in the workplace.
- Share our expertise widely for the benefit of other businesses, organizations, and communities.
- Pursue affordable housing opportunities which help to preserve community.
- Strengthen our local economy and engage in community policy-making and civic discourse.
- Establish enduring and respectful relationships based on trust.
- Deepen our understanding and practice of employee ownership and workplace democracy.
- Reflect the communities we serve.
PROFIT & PRACTICE
- Provide a superb experience for our clients from the beginning to end, and beyond.
- Embrace new ideas with a bold and flexible approach.
- Seek projects that are consistent with our values.
- Grow only with purpose.
- Concentrate our endeavors on Martha’s Vineyard.
- Practice internal transparency and open-book management.
- Fully combine beauty, craft, and science in our projects.
- Produce work that will be loved and admired for generations.
- Honor craft and those who practice it.
- Base our business decisions on long-term thinking.
- Be consistently profitable.
PLANET & ENVIRONMENT
- Deepen our understanding of the environmental consequences of our operations.
- Embrace regenerative principles to restore our environment and community.
- Create and implement strategies for climate change mitigation and impact reduction.
- Facilitate renewable energy use in our region.
- Aim for zero energy in the short term; aim for zero waste and zero discharge of toxins in the long term.
- Encourage our clients to minimize resource consumption.