GO Logic is a 25-person architecture and construction firm located in Belfast, Maine, specializing in design and construction of highly crafted, sustainable buildings. Our mission is to improve the quality of the built environment while significantly reducing building energy consumption and carbon emissions. We take an integrated approach to design that considers program, climate, building form, and materiality in the development of beautifully resolved spaces and architectural solutions. We bring a high level of conceptual expertise and thoughtful attention to detail to our design and construction projects that, when combined with our energy engineering experience, bring enduring, sustainable solutions to reality.
Technically, we set the performance level for all of our projects to the internationally recognized Passive House Standard. The passive house approach is based on creating a highly insulated and air-tight building shell that makes use of passive solar energy to lower space heating demands, allowing the cost and complexity of the mechanical systems to be minimized. The passive house approach will result in up to a 90% improvement on a building’s space heating loads from typical code-complaint construction. The significant financial savings resulting from minimizing a building’s heating system can be reinvested in building shell improvements, including super-insulated walls, foundation, roof and triple-glazed windows and doors. The combination of these improvements along with heat recovery ventilation results in a building with an extremely small energy demand for space heating. Passive house delivers significant energy (and cost) savings, improved building durability, as well as improved indoor air quality and comfort. GO Logic currently has six passive house certified projects, including the first certified student residence hall and first certified laboratory in North America, and has achieved LEED Platinum certification.
GO Logic’s design team has broad architectural experience over a variety of project types, and has the capacity to execute projects ranging from small single-family homes to larger commercial, institutional and multi-family projects. In addition, we have worked with a variety of state and local agencies through the zoning and permitting process, and have a successful record of permitting complicated projects including a large multi-family development, laboratory building, dormitory, and meeting/community center.
As a design-build firm, we have the opportunity to improve the technical aspects of our work through iterative feedback from our construction activities. Combining the design and construction team from the beginning of each project allows for high-level technical coordination between the construction site and the design office. The benefits of design/build project delivery structure are improved efficiency and predictability in construction, improved performance, and reduced design and construction costs. Since GO Logic was founded in 2008, it has become an industry leader in the design and construction of Passive House Standard, technologically advanced buildings.
