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.