Strategic Energy Solutions goes green with new Berkley home

Strategic Energy Solutions just finished turning its new home in an industrial brownfield green.The building on 11 Mile in Berkley served as an industrial facility for half a century until Strategic Energy Solutions purchased it last year. The sustainability technology firm renovated it into an environmentally friendly structure that is going for silver LEED certification.The building’s 9,200 square feet of loft-like office space is heated and cooled with a geothermal system. Strategic Energy Solutions added a plethora of windows, including making the entire east side wall transparent. There is so much light that every employee has a view.”Whether it’s day or night, snowing or raining everybody can see outside,” says Steve DiBerardine, president of Strategic Energy Solutions.The 11-year-old company used to call Ferndale home before spending about $1 million reinventing its new Berkley space. It’s now big enough that the company can comfortably expand for the next few years as it continues to rake in the green.Source: Steve DiBerardine, president of Strategic Energy SolutionsWriter: Jon Zemke