Team

Santa Cruz Green Builders has an excellent in-house team with a wide variety of skills between us. All the members of our team are, first and foremost, good people, that we want to work with day in and day out. We have a positive attitude, we take our work seriously, and we love to build.

Owner Bios

Taylor Darling's passion for building began at a young age. As a kid growing up in the Hawaiian jungle, he spent years building elaborate tree houses, and along the way, he learned the basics of building. At UCSC, he did his senior thesis on the environmental impacts of conventional building in the US. What he learned was shocking, but inspired him to pursue a career in green building. After working with a general contractor for several years in Santa Cruz, Taylor and Spencer started their own company with the principles of green building at its core.

Spencer Keenan graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.S. in Industrial Design. The courses there gave him the knowledge to take a design from conceptualization to finish and helped develop his ability to find solutions to problems that arise along the way. These skills, the beauty of California’s central coast, and Spencer's passion to create, resulted in his decision to become a green builder in Santa Cruz.