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Design & Engineering |
Our skill
set is best utilized and most cost effective when there are problems to be overcome, or
substantial benefits to be gained on a project. Our
experience has shown that we can reduce HVAC-related energy consumption by a minimum of
10% to over 60%, and peak electrical demands by up to 90%, depending upon the Scope of
work and budgetary constraints of the project. We are not
the firm that is typically called for standard tenant improvement ductwork and zone
terminal layouts. There are numerous firms
across the country that are adept at that level of work.
We perform peer reviews and develop design and construction standards for this type
of work if we are requested to do so by our clients. Many of our
Principals and Senior Engineers come from a controls, operating and troubleshooting
background, and this history of working in the field with the operating staffs has honed
the way we design our mechanical and control systems. We have
analyzed, designed and commissioned everything from rooftop packaged units to heat pumps
to process heating and cooling systems to some of the worlds largest TES systems.
We have had an extremely wide range of project involvement, which helps to
reduce analysis, design and commissioning costs - we don't have to begin our knowledge
base from scratch on each project. Our
Principal Engineers and Senior Consultants spend a substantial portion of their year on
project sites doing quality assurance and working directly on the projects with owners and
their operating staff. We have
built our reputation across the country by designing systems that work in the real world, provide the operating staffs the ability to see
the results of the changes they make, and by training the staffs to continue to improve
upon the project after we have left the site. For
example, at the Arden Realty 8383 Wilshire Project, the Energy User News National Energy
Efficient Office Building Award winner for 2000,
we were able to reduce the energy consumption of the facility by 26%, even while
the occupant density increased by 13%, and the tenant calls decreased by 47%. As a part
of our Scope, we were retained by Arden Realty to Commission the project and train their
operating staff, and since we have left the project, the Operating Engineers have
continued to reduce the energy consumption of the facility by an additional 7%. Are we upset that we did not obtain all of the potential savings on the first go-around? Of course not. We realize that the operating staffs live with their buildings every day, and understand the intricacies of each space and tenant preference far better than we could, unless we lived at the building as well. On the contrary, we are proud that the people we have trained have continued to hone the building operations, and we love getting calls from the staff describing what they have done to improve the results - we learn as much from the site Engineers as they learn from us, and we carry this knowledge to our other projects. The automation and control systems are where the HVAC system operation is either made or broken. Our Principle Engineers and Senior Consultants have a combined total of 80 years of direct control system design experience. Most of our control system designs are configured to allow totally automatic system operation without operator intervention, and are simple to follow and modify, should the operator wish to change the sequences to further optimize energy performance of the system. |
| Mechanical System Architect
| Design/Engineering | Specialty Consulting
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