The buildings
we work in.
The engineering is the same discipline in all four. What changes is who signs, what the money has to look like before it is approved, and what the building cannot be asked to do while the work happens.
Commercial
Office towers, retail and mixed-use property. Central plant, rooftop equipment and envelope, with the work staged around tenant operating hours and a capital plan that has to survive a budget committee.
Multi-residential
Apartment portfolios, housing co-operatives and social housing. Occupied buildings, long approval cycles, and funding that usually decides the scope before the engineering does.
Industrial
Manufacturing, cold storage, warehousing and recycling. Process load dominates the meter, production cannot stop for the assessment, and the roof is often the largest unused asset on the site.
Institutional
Municipal, healthcare and education buildings. Ageing plant, public reporting obligations, and procurement that has to be defensible before it can be fast.
One method,
four kinds of
building.
Measure, diagnose, quantify and fund, verify. We examine controls and sequences before equipment in every sector, because a capital project scoped inside a building whose controls are misreporting gets sized against a load profile that is itself an artefact of the fault.
Thirty minutes, with the engineer who would run the work.
No cost and no obligation. Bring twelve months of utility bills if you have them — that alone is usually enough to say whether a building has a capital problem or a controls problem.