LEED Proven Provider is designed to encourage and reward high-quality LEED project submissions to minimize the need for additional work during the project review process.
As one of the few firms with 20-plus years of LEED experience, KW+A is known for helping clients who have diverse and challenging projects.
WELL Building Standard, as a performance-based tool for the built environment, focuses on advancing human health and well-being.
We are pleased to be able to serve as WELL Accredited Professional and lead teams through the WELL Building Standard process- from registration through certification.
As noted on Fitwel website...and we have experienced...
"Certification — for new or existing buildings — doesn't have to be a painful process. Fitwel makes it easy, affordable, and efficient thanks to the cloud-based Fitwel Platform. The Fitwel Platform allows you to register, benchmark, and submit a single project or an entire real estate portfolio for Fitwel Certification."
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Kath Williams was named a "Living Building Hero in 2014". Let her and the KW+A team be your mentors as you choose to take on the Living Building Challenge and identify the "petals" that fit your special projects.
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Beyond rating systems, the world of sustainbility offers challenges and opportunities for all. Better sustainibility decisions through better insight.
We provide specialized, technical support services in ARC portfolio management, Life Cycle Assessment and Building Systems Modeling, to name a few.
KW+A will share global lessons learned while doing. Your next sustainable projects will be more efficient and effective so your internal team can be on-going leaders. KW+A supports your team in defining, reaching, and documenting your journey to sustainabililty.
The most successful green projects start with excellent planning. We have helped developers and planners identify and incorporate green and LEED opportunities into their master plans.
Sustainability requires long-term commitment to people and planet. Green buildings require operations and maintenance policies and practices that support your goals.
KW+A will help you develop and implement policies that provide healthy, happy and sustainable environments for work and play.
Whether this is your first sustainable project or you have multiple projects certified to date, our goal is to be an educational resource.
Celebrating 25 Years as Kath Williams + Associates, Inc. today!
This Woman-Owned Business (WBE) sprouted from the Montana State University-Bozeman's EPICenter project in the 1990s. Inspired by bob berkebile and Don McLaughlin, the project supported an Industry Partners Program, led by David Gottfried.
Growing over the past 25 years, KW+A has served as LEED-AP on 158 certified projects including 16 Platinums around the world. Our success would only have been possible because of the support from our committed owners, experienced design/construction teams, and facilities managers who care for the projects into the future.
Volunteering for US GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL and World Green Building Council brought life experiences and a host of friends who have enriched our lives.
We are blessed to have worked and continue to work in USA, India, Taiwan, Australia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Guatemala on exceptional "green building projects" that truly make a difference for the environment, our people, and as financially viable properties for the long term.
On this special day, I personally want to thank all of my associates, my partners, my friends, and especially, my family. Without you all, my life would not be this full and KW+A could not have been a success!
Kath was honored to serve as a Jury Member for the selection of the 2025 Living Future Heroes. Kath was named Living Building Hero in 2014.
What a challenging task as the nominees were exemplary in areas like how this nominee champions the transformation toward a society that is socially just, culturally rich, and ecologically restorative, how the nominee influences communities and stakeholders, and how this nominee furthers ILFI's stated goal of fostering a true, inclusive community that is just and equitable.
Congratulations to all who were nominated. That alone is an honor.
Kampgrounds of America Corporate Headquarters, founded in Billings, Montana, 62 years ago, has opened its new offices with a gala celebration. Toby O'Rourke, CEO of KOA, thanked the staff and team that kept on target for LEED certification. The LEED plaque was presented by Peter Templeton, CEO of USGBC and GBCI, to rounds of applause from an appreciative audience of staff, local residents, and LEED team members. Kath Williams was honored to present the LEED certificates to the 47 members of the LEED team from 14 different professional firms.
Oscar Tang, KOA’s owner, was also in attendance and spoke briefly about the company’s growth and its commitment to Montana. The audience enjoyed his comment that the first reservations for KOA Kampgrounds were mostly made by postcards.
“The founders were entrepreneurs from Billings. It has always been headquartered here and it has grown tremendously, especially in the last 15 years,” he explained. “So, this is a way of making it clear that we are a Montana company. This building, I think, will perhaps further anchor that fact. Long after I’m gone, this company that grew out of this location from you all, from the efforts that you all have put in, will prosper on and on.”
Tang’s wife, Agnes Hsu-Tang, a world-renowned archaeologist, art historian and activist, curated a wide variety of art from the western region of the U.S. to give the building life.
Jason McGimpsey, architect from A&E Design, created the building’s chandelier which is made from repurposed trees taken from the site.
Mayor of Billings Bill Cole remarked how that KOA Headquarters being certified added to the commitment of the City of Billings as a LEED-Gold Certified City, the first in Montana.
It was also announced that Terramor, KOA's newest site, now open in Bar Harbor, ME earned the first SITES-Existing Landscapes in the USA and second in the world. Kath Williams + Associates, along with Catalyst Partners, led the effort to earn SITES-Gold.
