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October 12, 2009: GNA Consulting Engineers has been retained by a US-Germany (top secret lab merger) to provide the MEP-FP design, construction administration and commissioning services for their first site. Four major separate projects will be completed by 2012.
GNACE team was comprised under strict supervision by a mixed US and  EU consultants to meet all requirements: PE, CEM, PhD, Ing. engineering titles.

September 24, 2009: GNA Consulting Engineers at ON24 Global Production - Conference, click to access the PDF questions and answers.

August 3rd to November 30th 2009: GNA Consulting Engineers at The International Building Modernity - Conference & Meetings in 9 European countries.

August 3-10: Eugenia Schweitzer, Principal of GNACE in Austria, EU. The International Buildings Modernity, in Austria borne by a positive faith in technology and progress, and the vision of the green humanization of the built environment, a heterogeneous group of architects and engineers (including Roland Rainer, Eugenia Schweitzer and Viktor Hufnagl) inspected and signed-off 4 new sustainable buildings in Salzburg and conveyed the centuries old Austrian city's self-confidence and cosmopolitanism.

July 2009: GNA Consulting Engineers  at ASHRAE prototype building energy label at its 2009 Annual Conference in Louisville, Ky

Eugenia Schweitzer, Principal of GNACE attended the ASHRAE new labeling program, "Building Energy Quotient" (Building EQ). This program will allow building tenants to select energy-efficient spaces and help standardize the way building owners differentiate their product. Building EQ will focus solely on energy use, unlike existing labeling programs. Buildings will receive an asset rating (based on its design and energy model) and an operational rating (based on actual energy-use data from one year’s operation.) ASHRAE is currently working with major real estate developers and hopes for a widespread launch of the full program in 2010. For years, ASHRAE has sought ways to help move the nation’s building stock toward net-zero-energy use. But how can that be done without knowing exactly how much energy each building uses? The new Building EQ program seeks the answers to that question. With metrics for measuring both the energy the building is designed to use and the energy actually being consumed, this program will help us closing the gaps between intention and operation.

June 2009: The International Code Council has introduced an initiative to reduce energy inside of commercial buildings

Approximately 40% of U.S. energy is used by buildings, and the same amount of the nation's carbon emissions is produced by them, according to the ICC. Decreasing those percentages is a stated goal of the initiative, as is the progression of green building codes. This also will help progress toward the AIA's goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

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