About Us

SustainableWorks is a community-based non-profit created solely to help home and small commercial building owners, like you, with home retrofits to reduce energy use while also creating quality jobs.

The Sustainable Works model is scalable, efficient, and sustainable in order to maximize job creation and carbon reductions.  

• Organize communities through volunteer support, local institutional participation, public events, and neighbor interaction to engage home and small business owners in energy efficiency retrofits.
• Deploy certified energy consultants and auditors to assess building energy use and potential savings and identify retrofit measures that are cost-effective.
• Create a financing package that combines utility, government and customer participation so that costs are offset with affordable loans
  
• Pool the retrofit projects within neighborhoods (100 – 200 at a time) to gain efficiencies and obtain the most competitive quotes from qualified contractors.
• Create quality Green Jobs by selecting and overseeing contractors who agree to:
• Participate in quality and efficiency training
• Utilize 20% apprentices and hire from targeted constituencies.
• Pay prevailing wages and benefits.
• Guarantee the quality of the retrofits by assuring customer satisfaction and the effectiveness of energy saving measures.