Mazzetti & Associates Recognized for ''Green'' Health Care Work

Engineering Company Is First Design Firm to Earn "Champion for
Change" Award
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
Consulting and engineering firm Mazzetti & Associates has earned a
"Champion for Change" award for the second year in row, announced
company President Walt Vernon. The award is given by Practice
Greenhealth (formerly Hospitals for a Healthy Environment) and
recognizes companies that have made extraordinary efforts to both
green their operations and help others in the healthcare industry
reduce their impacts on the environment.

The award has traditionally been given to health care companies
that operate hospitals and clinics, but is not usually given to design
firms. Mazzetti has a broad health care design practice in the Western
U.S., including clients such as Kaiser Permanente, St. Joseph Health
System and Stanford University Medical Center.

"We are very proud to receive this award today," said Vernon. "Our
clients are at the forefront of saving energy, reducing costs and
helping to fight climate change, and we feel privileged to be able to
work with them."

Mazzetti's full range of client services includes mechanical,
electrical, plumbing, and technology engineering design and
consulting. In addition, the firm recently announced that it would
provide climate change consulting to clients who wish to reduce their
buildings' greenhouse gas emissions.

In accepting the award, Vernon indicated that he believes the
companies that recognize the impacts of their buildings on the
environment and try to do something about it will benefit in the
future.

"There is little doubt that more environmental regulation and
carbon markets are coming," Vernon said. "We believe that building
owners who prepare for a carbon-constrained future will fare much
better than those who wait for the regulations to take hold and who
have to act with their backs against the wall."

Founded in 1962, M&A is a full-service mechanical, electrical,
plumbing, and technology consulting and design firm, with offices in
San Francisco, Irvine, and Sacramento, California and Portland,
Oregon. The firm serves the health care, mission critical, and science
and technology, and higher education sectors. M & A was one of the
first engineering firms in the U.S. to add a climate consulting
practice to their list of client services, offering advice on
measuring, reducing and monetizing client greenhouse gas emissions.

Editor's note: Walt Vernon, Principal of Mazzetti & Associates,
will speak on climate change, as well as a case study on photovoltaics
for Kaiser Permanente at the CleanMed conference in Pittsburgh, PA on
May 21. For more information, please visit www.cleanmed.org or call
Emily Toliver, Mazzetti & Associates, (415) 364-7257.

Mazzetti & Associates
Emily Toliver, 415-364-7257
Emilyt@mazzetti.com

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