Mechanical / HVAC
Load calculations, air and hydronic system design, plant selection, and ductwork routing tuned for comfort, humidity, and the lowest sustainable energy use.
MEP engineering consultancy
We engineer the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems behind high-performance buildings — sized for real loads, coordinated in BIM, and tuned for energy, comfort, and code.

1,200+
Projects engineered
28
Years in practice
40M
Sq ft designed
18
LEED-accredited engineers
Who we are
A building's systems decide whether it is comfortable, affordable to run, and legal to occupy. Our job is to get all three right — quietly, before a single duct is hung.
We founded this practice in 1998 on a conviction that good MEP engineering is invisible. When the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems are designed well, nobody thinks about them — the rooms are the right temperature, the lights come on, the water runs hot, and the utility bills stay low. When they are designed badly, they are all anyone can talk about. We build for the first outcome, and we do it by starting from the loads the building will actually see rather than the rules of thumb that oversize everything.
Performance is measured, not assumed. Every project runs through energy modeling and load calculations before we commit to equipment, so the systems we specify are sized for the real occupancy, the real envelope, and the real climate. That discipline is why our plant rooms tend to be smaller, our ceilings higher, and our operating costs lower than a code-minimum baseline — and it is why owners come back to us for the second building, and the third, once they have lived in the first.
We coordinate in BIM from day one. There is no throwing drawings over a wall — the engineer who sizes your systems is the one who models them, clashes them against structure and architecture, and stands behind them through construction administration and commissioning. That means fewer surprises in the field, cleaner installations, and systems that are proven to work on the day the building opens, not months after the ribbon is cut.
Project portfolio
Every project below started the same way — a set of loads, a coordination model, and a stubborn refusal to oversize what we could engineer properly.
Commercial Office · 2025Meridian Development
Full MEP design for a 32-story office tower targeting LEED Gold and best-in-class operating cost.
−42%
Energy vs. baseline
480k sq ft
Area designed
LEED Gold
Certification
Healthcare · 2025Atlas Health System
Central utility plant and full MEP for a 240-bed acute-care hospital with strict resiliency and infection-control requirements.
4,200 tons
Plant capacity
N+1
Redundancy
240
Beds served
Life Sciences · 2024Nordic Biotech
Mechanical and electrical design for an ISO-classified cleanroom and vivarium fit-out inside an existing shell.
ISO 5
Cleanliness
60 ACH
Air changes
+/-3%
Humidity band
Industrial · 2024Form Manufacturing
Electrical service upgrade and MEP coordination for a 320,000 sq ft advanced-manufacturing plant.
5 MW
New service
320k sq ft
Area served
1 weekend
Downtime
Sports & Assembly · 2024Lumen Arena Authority
Full MEP and smoke-control design for an 18,000-seat multipurpose arena.
18,000
Seats served
8 min
Time to setpoint
900k CFM
Ventilation
Cultural · 2023Gallery North Museum
HVAC and electrical renovation for a museum wing housing loan-grade collections.
+/-1F
Temp stability
+/-3%
Humidity band
24/7
Monitoring
How we work
Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and commissioning under one roof — sized from real loads and reconciled in a single BIM model so the systems fit the building, not the other way around.
Load calculations, air and hydronic system design, plant selection, and ductwork routing tuned for comfort, humidity, and the lowest sustainable energy use.
Power distribution, panel and feeder sizing, lighting and controls, life-safety, and short-circuit and coordination studies — all modeled and clash-checked.
Domestic water, sanitary, storm, and gas, plus sprinkler and standpipe design — sized hydraulically and coordinated tight to structure and ceilings.
Whole-building energy modeling, LEED documentation, and commissioning that proves every system performs as designed on the day the doors open.
What we believe
We size from measured loads and energy models, not rules of thumb. Right-sized systems mean smaller plant, higher ceilings, and lower bills for the life of the building.
Drawings that can't be built help no one. Everything we model is clash-checked against structure and architecture and detailed for the crews who install it.
Energy, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing codes are the floor, not the goal. Our accredited engineers push past minimums toward LEED and net-zero targets.
How a project runs
A typical engagement moves through five phases. Scan the timeline to see what we deliver at each stage.
01 · Schematic design
Weeks 1–4
Load calculations, system concepts, and rough riser diagrams for early pricing.
02 · Design development
Weeks 5–10
Equipment selections, coordinated layouts, and energy-model iterations.
03 · Construction documents
Weeks 11–18
Stamped drawings, specifications, and controls sequences ready for permit.
04 · Construction administration
Site phase
Submittal reviews, RFI responses, and field walks at every milestone.
05 · Commissioning & handover
Closeout
Functional testing, balancing reports, and as-built documentation.
In their words
We'd rather let the design teams, contractors, and owners we've worked with do the talking. Here's a little of what they've told us.
They sized the systems for the building we were actually designing, not the one on a rule of thumb. The mechanical rooms shrank, the ceilings got higher, and the client noticed both.
Their Revit models arrived clash-free and stayed that way through CDs. Our foreman said it was the smoothest MEP coordination he'd run in twenty years on the tools.
We asked for LEED Gold and a payback under seven years. They delivered both, backed by real energy modeling — not a spreadsheet dressed up as one.
Send us the drawings, the program, or just the square footage. We reply to every RFP and design inquiry within two business days.