Petinelli is a consulting firm specializing in advanced engineering to enhance building performance: efficiency, health, wellbeing, and sustainability. Since 2009, it has optimized buildings with only about a 1% increase in construction costs, enabling top-level certifications like LEED and WELL to be economically viable.

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By combining:

• lower operational costs,

• higher rent premiums, and sometimes even a lower cost of capital, and

• minimal investment increases,

Petinelli significantly unlocks ROI and improves ESG.

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As a result, the firm is responsible for 20% of all LEED Platinum buildings in Latin America, which use on average 40% less energy and 65% less water. Key achievements include:

• World’s 1st LEED Zero Energy building (2018)

• World’s 1st LEED Zero Water building (2019)

• World’s 1st LEED v5 building (2024)

• Latin America’s 1st WELL Residential building (2024)

• Building with the highest LEED score worldwide (until 2023)

• World’s most sustainable Coca-Cola bottling plant (2023)

 

With a multidisciplinary team of 80+ professionals and 63 international credentials, Petinelli delivers creative, cost-effective solutions and works with top architecture firms like Foster+Partners, MVRDV, Bjarke Ingels, and Isay Weinfeld.

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The company has received numerous recognitions, including the USGBC Leadership Award (2019), a USGBC+ Magazine cover feature (2020), the LEED Homes Project of the Year (2021), and the IWBI Leadership Award (2024).