Carbon Reduction & Life Cycle Assessments

We apply our expertise in modeling, design and construction as third-party, independent consultants, with no interest other than the one of the owner. 

Our personnel have a long history – and therefore significant experience - with low energy buildings. We have a broad view of current advances in energy efficiency and carbon, and as important, from experience, we know what actually works.  

Examples of excellence in the Energy Efficiency Community: 

• The first US Net Zero building - Oberlin College, Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies 
• Net-zero FBI Pease building in the Northeast 
• Net-zero Walmart supermarkets (studies)  
• Currently (in design) for Queens Botanical Garden Education Center 
• The first environmental residential towers – all residences at Battery Park City, starting with the Solaire 
• The first environmental US office high-rises – Four Times Square and One Bryant Park (the latter very high use intensity) 
• The largest US Passive House building – The House at Cornell Tech dormitory, and in design – the largest residential Passive House high-rise (Holmes, in NYC) 
• Very low carbon, all-electric buildings:  
• 2 million sqft office building, under construction, NYC 
• 220,000 sqft office building, under construction, NYC 
• Office/maintenance facilities, Hiawatha, Minneapolis 
• Geothermal systems of all types, as exemplified by the following (out of many): 
• foundation-embedded geothermal (Trevor Day School, the first in NYS - followed by the 561 Greenwich  Office building, under construction, which will be lowest-carbon building of this type in NYC) 
• Lake – Cornell University 
• River – Work Trade Center 
• Open-loop – Brooklyn Children’s Museum 
• Closed loop – Westchester Country Club 
• Standing column - Knox Hall at Columbia University 
• Renewables, such as: 
• Building-mounted, starting with Solaire and continuing with many other buildings  
• Parks, such as the Queens West park 
• Audits of portfolios of multiple buildings for clients in Office, Residential and Hospitality buildings of the largest developers and owners in nation 
• Our global work includes offices, hotels and residential towers in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, Mexico, China, Middle East, Turkey, Brazil, Japan and Korea. We worked on some of the largest developments, such as the Shanghai Tower, Seoul International Financial center, and also on smaller, yet important projects such as the Italcementi Headquarters in Bergamo and a Goldman Sachs office in London 
• Our work with real time and day ahead ISO pricing data allows us to find opportunities of asset switching vis a vis carbon impacts 

A Kit of Advanced Tools and Equipment: 

We use a range of tools and procedures on and off the field. They range from: 

• An analysis of the energy bills using databases and error analysis in the M&V projects, effect of retrofits on envelope, from THERM for simple conditions, to 3D conduction modeling, CFD and WUFI moisture transfer 
• We model lighting and daylighting, thermal comfort, solar radiation, air movement around and within buildings, etc.  
• For energy use and carbon, we employ a range of software programs, such as DOE 2.2 and EnergyPlus 
• For analyzing piping and equipment in existing buildings, we use in-house eddy current testing apparatus, ultrasonic thickness testers and metallurgical specialists with scanning electron microscopes for advanced studies