Services

Energy Modeling

Energy Modeling helps architects, builders and clients understand how a structure will perform before it is built. Not only does the study look at the overall building performance but it identifies areas of improvement that can result in significant cost savings. Areas considered are heat and cooling loads, daylighting, passive solar heating, radiant cooling, thermal mass, windows, insulation, infiltration and ventilation. Developing an energy model and assessing the alternatives can save up to 70% in energy costs with little or no increase in construction costs. Additionally, modeling can keep you from making costly mistakes in materials selection or can give you insight on design changes that can save you considerable money.

Analysis of Alternative Energy Saving Strategies

We develop energy savings strategies and provide you with complete financial analyses of each alternative allowing you to make informed decisions. We identify a range of alternatives at varying levels of up front investment and we analyze the returns on investment and payback periods for each alternative. This analysis allows you to select with confidence how you want to most effectively spend your energy saving dollars. We analyze a wide variety of traditional and renewable options including: • Geothermal ground source heating and cooling (open source and closed loop) • Air source heating • Electric thermal energy storage • High efficiency boilers and furnaces • Passive solar heating • Radiant cooling • High performance windows and window coverings • High performance insulation and alternative building materials • Thermal mass • Day lighting • Heat and energy recovery ventilators.

System Design

Once we have determined the right strategy for you needs, we focus on designing your high performing systems. Advanced energy technologies need to be designed correctly to deliver the promised benefits. We are continually enhancing our knowledge and stay up to date on new technologies, standards and engineering methods. We use real time performance data and the latest industry software and modeling programs to optimize our designs.

Project Management

Project management services ensure that your high performance system is built according to specification while minimizing installation costs and time. We have often found that high performance systems impact the entire construction project and given the complexity of the system components it is important to have expertise overseeing and coordinating installation. We use standard project management methodologies and tools to complete projects on time and on budget.

System Integration

A critical aspect of a high performance system is understanding how it is performing. We provide the expertise to integrate many standalone monitoring and management systems into a single user-friendly interface. This gives you the ability to manage and fine-tune your system to your comfort level and energy savings goals. We adhere to open standards to ensure your system works today and in the future.