Aligning Design Intent with Real-World Delivery

We help project teams across all delivery methods define performance goals and shape early mechanical system concepts that reflect the needs of occupants, owners, designers, and builders alike. From early planning through construction, we collaborate with architects, engineers, contractors, and owners to ensure that system strategies, envelope decisions, and comfort objectives stay aligned with sustainability, cost, and constructability.

Our role isn’t just analysis. We provide clear, constructible performance insights and Basis-of-Design guidance that support critical decisions about system configurations, envelope priorities, cost, and scheduling—making sure good ideas remain viable all the way to occupancy.

High Performance Building Design

What We Do

Early-Stage Energy & Comfort Modeling

  • Rapid design comparison and feedback

  • Envelope + systems integration and tradeoffs

  • Thermal comfort, zoning, and layout feedback

  • Daylight and glare optimization for usability

Code & Incentive Alignment

  • Title 24 (CA), IECC, ASHRAE 90.1, and LEED

  • Performance pathway strategy

  • Utility incentive navigation and documentation

  • Custom modeling support for stretch goals

Mechanical System Concept & Basis-of-Design Support

  • Early selection / evaluation of heating, cooling, ventilation, and hot-water systems appropriate for project goals (e.g. DOAS, VRF, hydronic, heat-pump water heating)

  • Sizing logic and system configuration recommendations based on load calculations and passive design strategies

  • Controls strategy outlines and sequencing concepts to support energy, comfort, and decarbonization goals

  • Integration guidance with envelope, daylighting, passive systems, and architectural intent

  • High-level BOD documentation for use by engineers and contractors — supporting downstream MEP design and coordination

How We Work With Design Teams

We partner with project teams—across all delivery models—to make performance modeling and early system strategy a proactive design tool, not a documentation afterthought. We engage owners, architects, engineers, contractors, and estimators to support key decision milestones, including:

  • Programming + system concept development

  • Envelope detailing + passive strategy integration

  • Mechanical Basis-of-Design + coordination with MEP partners

  • Code compliance + incentive alignment

Our sprint-based process brings agility and foresight, helping teams avoid late-stage rework, maintain constructability, and ensure that performance goals remain intact from concept to occupancy.

Integrated Daylight & Façade Analysis

We combine energy and daylight modeling to optimize facades, shading strategies, and lighting controls—aligning performance goals with architectural intent and construction realities. Our analysis supports LEED daylight credits, visual comfort targets, and daylight harvesting strategies, while also informing envelope decisions that reduce loads, simplify mechanical systems, and strengthen Basis-of-Design clarity.

Added value:

  • Explicitly ties façade decisions to mechanical system impacts

  • Reinforces “integrated design” narrative

  • Adds relevance to BOD + system concept services

Our Edge

We bring deep technical insight and real-world practicality to every design team, helping bridge architecture, building physics, and mechanical system strategy.

  • We speak integrated design. We understand how architecture, envelope, and mechanical systems interact—not just how they’re modeled.

  • We support the full timeline. From early concept and Basis of Design through coordination and commissioning, we deliver insight that sticks.

  • We balance performance with feasibility. We know when a design idea is brilliant—and when it’s too brittle for field conditions.