Steven J. Strong is President of Solar Design Associates, Inc., of Harvard, MA, an Engineering and Architectural firm dedicated to environmentally responsive buildings and the engineering and integration of renewable energy systems to power them.
Over the past 4 decades, he’s earned the firm an international reputation for the pioneering integration of renewable energy systems with environmentally responsive building design, completing projects in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and across the US from Maine to Hawaii.
The firm’s Zero-Net-Energy projects include an academic laboratory for the UMass system, the MA Fisheries and Wildlife headquarters, a multi-story commercial office building in Seattle that meets the Living Building Challenge – hailed as the ‘Greenest Building on the Planet’ by the New York Times and, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology - the largest project to receive LEED platinum and the first university to be designed from the ground up to be fully solar-powered.
SDA has been designing solar + storage micro-grids for over two decades. Key projects include an autonomous private island in the Caribbean, an eco-tourism resort on a barrier island off the coast of Belize, Cuttyhunk Island off the Massachusetts coast and Isle au Haut off the coast of Maine.
In 1999, TIME magazine named Steven an ‘Environmental Hero of the Planet’. In 2001, the American Solar Energy Society recognized his work with its Charles Greeley Abbot award – the Society’s highest honor. In 2007, TIME again recognized Steven as “An Innovator Building a Greener World” in their special publication on responses to Climate Change. He is a Fellow of the American Solar Energy Society.
