Built America Magazine | South
The first thing you notice isn’t the glass or the steel.
It’s the air.
There’s a crispness to it - a sense of stillness that’s almost startling - the way you imagine the world must feel before dawn. Sunlight spills across sleek lines and clean forms, but what you feel most isn’t grandeur. It’s calm. “That,” says Green Building Group founder Ned Malik, “is the point. People spend 80% of their lives inside a building. It should be the healthiest place they are.” It’s a striking philosophy — and an even more striking reality — from a company that has quietly become one of the most respected high-end sustainable builders in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region. Over the past fifteen years, GBG has fused luxury and longevity, pushing past the industry’s slow-to-change traditions to prove that homes can be both elegant and ecological. Sanctuaries that nurture well-being while treading lightly on the earth. A Pivot Born from Crisis The story of Green Building Group began, as so many revolutions do, in the middle of a collapse. “We started the company back in late 2009,” Ned recalls.
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