Design & Implementation
Most owners have been told that green or highly efficient buildings cost more. Well that’s just not true. For decades, our staff have successfully retrofitted buildings to make them super efficient and green. How so? Well, while we can’t reveal all our secrets, we can tell you we essentially do more with less. We make buildings inherently efficient, with lower costs that pay for themselves many times over! We integrate best practices, bio-mimicry and smart grid management to make our clients’ buildings more comfortable, more productive, safer and super efficient.
With international design awards for sustainable energy efficient retrofits, it’s no wonder building owners and architects are turning to us to design, manage construction and commission their high performance green buildings. What sets us apart from others is our practical expertise with building retrofits and operations. Our depth of experience and holistic approach to intelligent sustainable design yields higher performance (and more LEED points) than others at a lower total cost of ownership.
Engineering services include:
- 3D MEP Design and Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- 3D Lighting and Daylighting Modeling
- Energy Modeling, CA Title 24 and lifecycle comparisons
- Energy Master Planning
- Project Management
- Construction Observation
- Building and System Commissioning
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Not only do our designs have significantly lower energy and operating costs, we also boast some of the lowest capital costs in the market. Why? We do so much more with less and we leverage various grants, rebates and incentive programs that often make our designs significantly more efficient than the cookie cutter, code compliant designs from our competitors.
Once the appropriate energy efficiency measures have been identified, 3FFICIENT can even provide turnkey implementation and performance monitoring at no up front cost.