ABOUT DESIGN/BUILD SUSTAINABILITY TEAM CONTACT US WHO WE ARE FOUNDING HISTORY Our journey began in Los Angeles with brothers Jon and Bob Massaro. With some good luck and innovative thinking, they created a legacy of healthy buildings. In 1981, the brothers created one of California’s first true design-build firms. Jon, a recent graduate from The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI Arch). John approached Bob about starting their own firm. At that time, he had a secure job in health care management at a major Los Angeles teaching hospital but decided to follow his passion to collaborate with his brother. As kids, they loved to build things, a trait they picked up from their father, an M.I.T – trained aeronautical engineer. Together they founded their first firm on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles; Massaro Associates, Inc. While Jon was responsible for the design, Bob managed the business and together they oversaw the construction process. Soon after, Bob began to integrate green and healthy features to the projects which resonated with his former education in biology and public health. In addition, Jon’s experience in solar design brought the concepts of renewable energy to the projects. An incident in 1999 that threatened Bob’s then 10-year-old son’s health heavily influenced the company’s trajectory, morphing it into Healthy Buildings USA, focusing on green and healthy homes. Today, Jon and Bob operate separate practices. While Jon still practices in Los Angeles, Bob has established himself in Northern California. Nevertheless, the original spirit remains in both brothers: To design and build homes of great function with focus on health, ecology and resilience. WHO WE ARE Healthy Buildings has been changing people’s lives for many years. Built beyond green, our buildings contribute to a healthy future by creating places to live, work, and learn. Our mission is to empower our design capabilities, construction technology, and long-term experience to improve the lives of people. We do this by providing financially attainable, rapidly built, customizable, beautiful, low-impact, and high-quality options for homes and other building types. Using our proprietary green construction technologies, we have also changed the state of green building design and construction. Healthy Buildings continuously strives towards sustainable and resilient design. As a company, we promote awareness and education in the environmental and social issues facing California today. We constantly evaluate how we can reduce our projects carbon footprint, recycle materials and reduce energy consumption. We have taken some of our projects through the United States Buildings Council’s LEED accreditation process. Our buildings aim to exceed those certification requirements, whether officially certified or not. We provide our clients with flexible design, offering them the expertise to meet their personal goals and budgets. GALLERY WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING… Healthy Buildings has been working with the Gasser Foundation for almost four years now. They were instrumental in the planning and construction work associated with moving our headquarters building to net zero energy, something that we are quite proud of. More recently, they served as owners’ representative on a 24-unit supportive housing residential project that Gasser recently completed. We are quite pleased with the project, and appreciative of the role that Healthy Buildings played in making it happen. We would not hesitate to use them on future projects for the Gasser Foundation. -Joseph Peatman President, Peter A. and Vernice H. Gasser Foundation Healthy Buildings Design Group, Inc. Healthy Buildings Construction Group, Inc. Healthy Buildings Management Group, Inc. 630 Airpark Road, Suite A Napa, CA 94558 707.676.8999 / Office 707.260.7660 / Fax info@hbusa.net By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively.