BIG PICTURE THINKING. PRACTICAL APPROACH. SUSTAINABLE DESIGN.

Sustainability Defined

For Elara Engineering, sustainability is not (and cannot be) fully achieved without thoughtful and consistent consideration throughout the stages of the project’s development; from infancy through the completion of construction.

Rather, we believe that sustainability is only fully achieved with a commitment that incorporates each of the following elements.

 

  • A thorough and detailed understanding of the building design, functional purpose, energy use, and existing and planned MEPFPIT systems.
    • This is imperative as every building is unique.
  • Extensive industry knowledge of appropriate and economically viable sustainable technology options to achieve low energy/low carbon/low water/low annual costs.
    • This is imperative to match the best possible sustainable technology to a unique building while also addressing client needs, desires, financial constraints, and their own definition of sustainability.
  • Proven design expertise to customize and engineer for the entire lifecycle of the selected sustainable technology to maximize its long-term positive effects.  Sustainable technologies are only as good as the engineering design used to incorporate/maximize the technology within a client’s unique building.
    • This is imperative as any “out of the box” sustainability technology must be further customized to be effective within any unique building.
    • Sustainable equipment and systems can still operate inefficiently if they are not applied and operated under specific conditions.
  • A long-term view that incorporates building management’s ability to track and respond to system data to proactively operate the installed sustainable technology to maintain reliability on an ongoing basis.
    • This is imperative as it is the only way to ensure that sustainability is achieved far into the future.
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