Energy Modeling Support for Design Validation and Sustainability
Make confident design decisions backed by accurate performance predictions.
Why Early Energy Modeling Matters
EEI’s energy modeling services simulate building behavior under real-world conditions, helping you optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and achieve certification requirements before construction begins. Design decisions today create the performance baseline for future operational success.
Facility owners and managers can’t afford to take a “wait and see” approach when it comes to understanding their facilities’ energy consumption. If they do, they risk finding out far too late that their systems have not been optimized for efficiency and spending too much. This is why it’s crucial to have experienced energy modeling consultants working with you to ensure you make the proper design decisions, meet your sustainability goals, and achieve optimal operational readiness along with energy savings.
Engineering Economics, Inc. (EEI) provides independent, third-party energy modeling consulting with national reach to help facility owners and operators meet their objectives.
From Design to Performance: Bridging the Gap
EEI’s third-party expertise in building simulation helps ensure facilities meet their design intent by modeling estimated energy consumption. Through our advanced technology and extensive experience in energy modeling, we help our clients achieve benefits including:
- Validating that facility design meets performance targets including energy use intensity, daylighting and more
- Anticipating cost and operational impact of system choices
- Supporting sustainability and LEED/Green Globes/WELL planning through credible results
- Achieving ASHRAE 90.1 / IECC Code Compliance
- Establishing measurement and verification baselines
Rigorous Process, Clear Deliverables
EEI’s process is structured to provide clients with the most comprehensive range of services for energy modeling. Here is a brief summary of our workflow:
- Model setup and baseline creation: Using the parameters set forth by the client, we establish the expectations and create the model based on the facility’s design and systems, and/or certification goals.
- Scenario development: Taking into account the facility’s systems, envelope, and controls, we simulate proposed energy use scenarios as well as extreme loads through our modeling tools and software to understand how the entire facility performs across a variety of events.
- Analysis of results, iteration, and refinement: Following each scenario modeling, our team of experts takes a deep dive into the findings and develops a plan of action for any improvements that may be needed.
- Deliverable package: When we complete our analysis, we provide the client with detailed reporting and documentation that includes the simulation report, summary graphs, operations and maintenance implications, and Cx hand-off compatibility.
Integration with Audits, Commissioning, and Sustainability
The outcomes from our modeling work are used to inform the scope of commissioning efforts, feed into energy audits and building energy benchmarking, and align with sustainability planning for LEED and WELL. EEI also provides extensive documentation through our BalanceCx platform to ensure continuity.
Ideal Applications for Owners, Architects, and Engineers
Our energy modeling and sustainability consulting services provide benefits to a wide range of client bases, including:
- Facility owners, who use our energy modeling to determine asset value and support lifecycle decision-making, and achieve sustainability certification goals
- Architects/engineers, who depend on our peer-independent model validation to support their design teams and compliance efforts
- General contractors, who leverage the results of modeling to validate building performance and hand-off
Validate Your Design, Deliver Your Metrics
As an independent third-party energy modeling services provider, you can trust EEI to deliver the best and most-accurate results. We serve national and regional clients, providing them with a rigorous modeling process that leads to actionable results. To learn more, reach out to us today.