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Preliminary Consult in Sustainability
AEI’s technical engineering practice works on projects demanding the highest standards of verification, realized through performance modeling, commissioning, and testing—the same rigor we apply to sustainable technology innovations.
As this emergent field has matured, however, we’ve observed a need for process innovation that is as crucial as the need for innovative products. Our Précis service meets that need by applying engineering expertise to project concepts and defining first principles, providing a sound basis for preliminary design. Précis introduces technical analysis before design begins, informing the process with a creative understanding of the synergies possible across building systems. Critically assessing the interplay of massing, form, orientation, fenestration, envelope, MEP systems, and infrastructure yields holistic solutions that respond to the unique demands of program, bio-climate, and strategic objectives. LEED® certification becomes an outcome rather than a project’s driver. Our approach is integrative and collaborative, formulating qualitative questions to ascertain the most effective combinations of design measures, from which the client can choose those meriting more detailed qualitative analysis.
True “Big Ideas” aren’t found on a menu and ordered a la carte. Rather, they emerge organically, in response to a particular client, program, and environment. Providing preliminary consulting in sustainability, Précis maximizes the inventory of sustainable opportunities when it counts most: before design begins.
