Green and Sustainable Building

• Energy audit reports for residences, buildings and facilities
• Consulting and design for participants in LEED® rating system
• Off-grid system and self-sufficient building design
• Assist clients with balancing all the trade-offs between different eco-friendly design options
• Work with contractors, architects, structural engineers, municipal building departments as a representative of a building owner/purchaser for alternative/green initiatives
• Integrated design process
• Sustainable ecological principles of design (permaculture) applied to building systems and human interaction with built environment

Building Envelope Design and Modeling

• Team-based approach with architecture firms, structural engineering firms, and builders
• Building envelope design for conventional and natural building systems, with a specialty in straw bale and light straw-clay
• Energy performance computer modeling for conventional and alternative building envelope systems
• Active solar and passive solar design and modeling
• Building envelope upgrade consulting for renovations
• Thermal analysis of wall and foundation section details using HEAT2 software

Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Design

• Heat gain/Heat loss calculations for traditional and alternative building envelopes
  Efficient duct design
• High-velocity air system design
• Hydronic/radiant system & boiler piping design
• HVAC system commissioning and inspecting
• Ventilation reports / Part 6 ducted HRV design
• Geoexchange (“Geothermal”) system and loop design
• Solar hot air, solar hot water design and modeling
• Solar thermal seasonal storage
• Wood, pellet, and other solid-fuel heating systems design
• Integration of multiple technologies
• “Right-sized” systems, not oversized