Sustainable Design Practices

Milestone Ventures assists clients in making design choices to effectively utilize their available project budget to maximize energy efficiency and sustainable design practices. We stay abreast of changing technology and construction techniques to ensure our clients end up with the best possible product.

Milestone Ventures has developed projects with sustainable environmental site design features including saved trees, native landscapes, rain gardens, and pervious pavement. Other green features have included solar power, hybrid water heating systems, high efficiency insulation and construction techniques, high efficiency lighting, heating, and cooling, and more.

Green Building Certifications

Milestone Ventures is a leader in developing affordable rental housing that achieves green building certifications. Our developments have received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), NGBS (National Green Building Standard), and Energy Star certifications.

In 2009, we broke new ground serving as the Development Consultant for Country Trace, the first-ever new construction LEED for Homes Certified apartment building in Indiana.

We were also the Development Consultant for Crawford Apartments, which was Indiana’s first LEED Platinum Certified affordable multi-family housing community. Crawford Apartments was the 2013 winner of the Indiana Green Building Council’s Green Building Award for the State of Indiana.