Our Mission

Mission Statement

At Argento/Graham, we envision buildings on the cutting edge of sustainability and support their realization from the ground up. We believe that thoughtful building design, construction, and maintenance can elegantly integrate environmental stewardship, occupant wellbeing, and cost efficiency.

Argento/Graham offers strategic and technical green building consulting services for every step from design to occupancy. We provide green code compliance, energy modeling, commissioning, retro-commissioning, LEED, WELL, Fitwel, and sustainability consulting–or any combination of desired services as one coherent package–closing the loop between ownership, design and construction, and occupancy to provide a seamless experience.

    • Tailoring our scope of services to fit the unique needs of each project, from meeting requirements in city codes and development agreements to attaining ambitious sustainability goals while working within budgetary constraints.

    • Seeking out and incorporating leading-edge best practices to deliver creative strategies with powerful, lasting benefits.

    • Advocating for clients by understanding client priorities including budget, timeline, and values — and translating them into concrete project team goals.

Our Story

Argento/Graham (A/G) is a sustainability consulting firm committed to helping our clients develop cost-efficient buildings that prioritize environmental leadership and human wellbeing. Our comprehensive services include LEED certification, WELL certification, building commissioning, energy modeling and analysis, monitoring and verification, HERS testing, Title 24 and CALGreen compliance, and more.

Headquartered in downtown Los Angeles, A/G is a certified California Small Business led by principals Anne Argento and Duke Graham. Though A/G was formed in 2015, its LEED-accredited team of project managers, licensed professional engineers, and commissioning agents brings decades of experience working on a diverse portfolio of high performance green building projects including retail, hospitality, healthcare, multifamily residential, government, higher education, and multiple building developments.

Our Credentials

We are a small group of professionals with a large range of skills. Our goal is to arm clients with inspired sustainability solutions to transform the built environment, and we are committed to setting the standard for the best services in the business.

  • As a small business we have:

    • City of Los Angeles Small Local Business Certification (SLB),

    • County of Los Angeles Local Small Business Certification (LSBE),

    • State of California Small Business (Micro) Certification (SB), and

    • LA Metro Small Business Certification (SBE)

  • We are also active members with the following:

    • The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE),

    • The US Green Building Council (USGBC),

    • International Living Future Institute (ILFI), and

    • Los Angeles Chapter of USGBC (USGBC-LA)

  • Collectively, our team has an impressive collection of professional licenses and accreditations. We are:

    • LEED accredited professionals (LEED AP),

    • Professional Engineers (P.E.),

    • Certified Building Commissioning Professionals (CBCP),

    • Home Energy Rating System (HERS) raters,

    • WELL accredited professionals (WELL AP), and

    • Fitwel Ambassadors