Cycle Architecture + Planning is a Brooklyn-based company that provides architecture, urban design, sustainable design, and development consulting services to individuals, businesses, and organizations. A publicly-engaged firm that seeks out projects in the public interest, Cycle works with its clients and collaborating partners to create urban design and architecture for living cities and buildings. An analytically-focused practice with deep roots in the expanding issue of sustainability, Cycle designs, plans, manages, and executes projects for clients large, small, and in between with a calibrated understanding of the competing interests that characterize work in the public arena. Cycle is first and foremost a collaborating studio that brings people of diverse backgrounds and aspirations together. While the goals for our work are common, there is room for individual expression and focused inquiry in our work. Grounded in technical architecture that is a necessary prerequisite for producing low and zero-energy buildings, the practice researches, investigates, and seeks to develop easily implemented and understood solutions to complex problems. While no commercial practice chooses all of its clients, Cycle seeks out challenges and works with community groups, nonprofits, businesses, and individuals to optimize developments with unusual requirements or unrealized potential. Cycle is a technically oriented architecture and planning practice that is focused on achieving net zero energy buildings. We were awarded a grant in NYSERDA’s Buildings of Excellence program for our work at 669 St. Mark’s Avenue in Brooklyn, and are working on a project under RetrofitNY to retrofit one of the New York City Housing Authority’s buildings to net-zero energy performance. We are currently working on projects that address energy efficiency retrofits for buildings, and are developing our practice to address requirements from NYC’s Local Law 97. In addition, we are working on projects that include rehabilitation of existing buildings, installation of energy efficient facades, and installation of renewable energy and battery energy storage systems.