Today, the responsibility for managing environmental challenges is shared by all communities, industries, and governments. To provide clients with workable solutions to complex and costly remediation problems, GNACE has assembled a group of environmental scientists, engineers, and technicians with the necessary expertise and training in the following: Facilities operations and maintenance: existing building or campus O&M, monitoring, inspection, verification & evaluation of building performance, continuous improvement processes, CEM commissioning. Building Commissioning, Continuous Commissioning, energy audit, USGBC LEED Fundamental Commissioning, Basis of Design Documentation, Integrated Systems Testing, Operational Validation and re-commissioning, USGBC LEED Enhanced Commissioning, Mission Critical Systems Commissioning, Owner Project Requirement Documentation, Engineering Design Reviews, Point of Failure Analysis, Contractor Implementation Oversight, Integrated Systems Testing and Operational Validation, Operator Training, System Operational and On-going Commissioning Documentation.
 
GNACE also provides to our clients full-service planning, environmental compliance, and preliminary design services. GNACE planners, NEPA experts, resource specialists, and engineers understand the federal aid project development process as well as the environmental statutes and regulations that must be addressed during the process.
 
We work together with our clients to develop cost-effective solutions that solve specific problems while minimizing negative Social, Economic, and Environmental (SEE) impacts. The sustainability of a new building is based on many factors, including water savings, energy efficiency, and materials selection. These factors are influenced heavily by a building's architectural, site, and building-systems design and supporting civil infrastructure. Mechanical engineers can support sustainable design by providing input about green approaches early in the design process, designing more efficient and better-sized mechanical systems, and producing metrics and supporting documentation for evaluation and green certification when needed.

Sustainable MEP Design
Standards and rating systems for green-building systems abound. In the United States, ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, is a widely used standard providing minimum requirements for energy-efficient building systems in new and renovated buildings. The U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System is the most prevalent scorecard used by those pursing green-building certification. Of the 69 total LEED credits available, approximately 25 percent are influenced by building-systems design.
Building-information-modeling BIM based design tools helped GNACE engineers to provide all ‘greener' parts of the building systems.


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