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Building Performance

Long-term value is a crucial aspect of any project. Spaces that benefit from efficient systems and design reduce risk for clients. Our energy analysts blend advanced modeling techniques with a 50-year foundation of MEP engineering to create facilities and buildings that are energy and cost efficient, comfortable and truly sustainable.

Building Performance Analysis & Modeling Services

Energy Modeling
Master Planning
Data Analytics
Energy Auditing
Facility Optimization
On-Going Energy Management
Measurement & Verification and Dashboarding
Distributed Energy Resources
Central Plant Modeling & Optimization
Daylight Modeling
Envelope Optimization

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What We're Thinking About

Expert Interview: The Benefits of On-Site Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

We spoke with Scott Clemons, a electrical engineer with Glumac who breaks down the environmental and financial benefits of owning on-site electric vehicle charging stations and why they offer unique opportunities...

Data-Driven Design Series | Analyzing Water Use and Reuse

For our latest installment in our Data-Driven Design Series, we spoke with Jon Robertson, Glumac's Lone Star Region Plumbing Manager, about strategies for reaching net zero water and how we're improving...

Rainwater Harvesting Rebates Now Available in Austin

Austin, TX, has implemented a series of rebates and guidelines to improve the...

Data Driven Design: Harnessing Building Analytics to Deliver a Low Carbon Future

We're introducing the first episode of our new Data-Driven Design Series, where we discuss with various experts both in and outside Glumac on cutting edge concepts we are currently integrating on building...

Focus on Climate Change Ramps Up With New West Coast Building Energy Initiatives

As the energy grid across the West Coast becomes more reliant on clean power sources, Washington, Oregon, and California are responding with legislation that will push new and existing buildings to improve...

Collaborating from Home: The New Normal of Remote Work for the A/E/C Industry

The recent pandemic caused many businesses to scramble to find ways to maintain productivity as stay-at-home orders from local and state governments all but cut-off traditional office spaces. At Glumac,...

Glumac Design Trends Update: Strategies to Deliver a Low Carbon Future

“Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and almost always occurs in small groups and locales, then bubbles up to larger vectors of...

Trim Tab Magazine: How Net Zero Energy Electrified Learning at Creekside Community High School

The site of Creekside Community High School is less than a half-mile away from the Tigard High School in Tigard, Oregon. But the two facilities couldn’t be further apart. Creekside–the Tigard-Tualatin...

4 Signs Your Building Commissioning Expert Will Get You the Most ‘Bang for Your Buck’

In the young history of building commissioning, we’ve already witnessed a surge of under-qualified firms that suffer...

How Ongoing Building Commissioning Could Benefit Your Manufacturing Operation

You may have had your building and manufacturing process undergo a thorough commissioning process when you...

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University of Washington Bothell – Discovery Hall

As the University of Washington, Bothell, enrollments continued to rise (the number of full-time students has risen more than 70 percent since 2009), the...

California State University Northridge Sustainability Center

As the focus on sustainable building design continues to grow among students and administration at Cal State Northridge, and its Institute for Sustainability...

Vestas Americas HQ

When Vestas – one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines – decided to move its North American headquarters into the historic Meier &...

Allen Institute for Brain Science

The Allen Institute for Brain Science project team tasked Glumac’s energy staff with establishing energy efficiency measures that would make the new 270,000 sf...

DGS Natural Resources HQ, P Street

Glumac is currently providing MEP engineering, and energy services for a new, modern office building on P Street for the State of California, Department...

Los Gatos Library

Libraries are often seen as beacons of knowledge and learning in a community. The sustainable building design of the Los Gatos Library in Los Gatos California...

Indigo | Twelve West

As Portland’s downtown continues to see tremendous development with new builds and renovations, the West End neighborhood has long been seen as having...

Arch | Nexus SAC

This architectural firm’s headquarters is a noteworthy endeavor in that they achieved the first ever Living Building Certified (LBC) building in California...

Amazon HQ – Vulcan Blocks 44, 45, 52e

An area primed for redevelopment, Seattle’s South Lake Union has now become home to Amazon’s corporate headquarters, with three buildings occupying three...

SoFi Stadium

Glumac's MEP engineering experts are providing mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and energy code compliance plan checking services and field inspection...

Oregon Military Department – Fort Dalles Readiness Center

With views of the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon Military Department’s Fort Dalles Readiness Center was meant to be more than a standard military facility....

Sokol Blosser Winery Tasting Room

Throughout its 40-year history, Oregon’s Sokol Blosser winery has been an industry leader in sustainable building design and operation. For their new wine-tasting...

Clifford L. Allenby Building

Glumac is currently providing MEP engineering, energy and lighting services for the Clifford L. Allenby Building for the State of California, Department...

SAIF Headquarters Renovation & Addition

SAIF, an independent public corporation, is the market leader in the provision of workers’ compensation insurance for Oregon employers. When SAIF sought...