Elara’s compass represents our principles and provides us with direction:
NEIGHBORHOOD: To collectively bring positive impact to neighborhoods at every scale: our homes, our places of work, our communities, and our planet.
ETHICS & INTEGRITY: To make decisions and take actions that leave no doubt that we operate bound by an unwavering adherence to what is right.
SUSTAINABILITY: To ensure that our solutions remain focused on those that provide long-lasting benefits to our clients while reducing carbon footprint.
WORK/LIFE BALANCE: To maintain a work environment that actively supports our ability to lead a balanced life between career and personal pursuits.
Our professional staff is driven by their collective passion to achieve sustainable energy efficiencies through constructible designs that minimize the carbon footprint on the environment, save money, and increase asset value. Elara is structured, its staff developed, and its processes followed to continuously generate innovative, cutting-edge designs to improve the functionality of both new and existing buildings.
Elara Engineering is headquartered in a near western suburb of Chicagoland with a branch office in the River North neighborhood of Chicago. We provide our services and sustainable expertise throughout the Chicago metro area, the Midwest, the United States, and beyond.
Elara specializes in sustainable and energy-efficient design across all of the markets it serves including commercial, multi-family, life science, higher education, healthcare, industrial, s/b K-12 education, municipal, religious & residential.
Designed one of Chicago's first variable primary chilled water plants.
Designed largest geothermal field in Chicago, partially underneath a building
Launched Volunteer Program (Philanthropic Program)
Designed first known split of single zone domestic water system to a dual pressure zone domestic water system in Occupied Chicago Condominium Building
Opened branch office in Downtown Chicago
Created Digital Design Team
Elara Energy Services, Inc. established by Co-Founders Donald McLauchlan and Steven Maze.
Designed one of Chicago's first variable primary chilled water plants.
New Partner: Jay Parikh
Launched first intern program
Designed largest geothermal field in Chicago, partially underneath a building
Launched Volunteer Program (Philanthropic Program)
Designed first known split of single zone domestic water system to a dual pressure zone domestic water system in Occupied Chicago Condominium Building
Opened branch office in Downtown Chicago
Created Digital Design Team
Hillside Office:
30 N. Wolf Road, Second Floor, Hillside, IL 60162
