High Performance Buildings Services
The Tetra Tech High Performance Buildings Group is home to specialists in structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire, sustainability, digital, security, lighting, acoustics, vertical transportation, and more.
We bring integrated technical excellence and a wide pool of resources to our clients’ projects in workplace, residential and hospitality, retail, advanced manufacturing, civic and cultural, defense, education, healthcare and sciences, mission critical, and transport.
Mechanical
- Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC)
- Displacement ventilation
- Building automation and controls
- Building analyses, studies, and reports
- Economization studies
- Energy efficiency studies
Air Quality
- Planning assessments and environmental permitting
- Air quality mitigation strategies
- Air quality compliance testing
- Construction, demolition, dust, odor and habitat assessments
- Remote monitoring systems design and supply
- Road traffic impact assessment
- Dispersion modelling
- Energy combustion plant emissions assessments
ESG & Sustainability Consulting
- Strategy creation
- Green building certifications
- Sustainable design and operations
- Energy modelling
- ESG reports
- ESG strategy
- Net zero strategy development, implementation and monitoring
Structural and Civil
- Master planning and schematic design
- Value engineering and alternative tender design
- Comprehensive design & documentation
- Construction phase services
- Existing building audits
- Independent certification and external peer review
- Fitout, refurbishment works, and seismic restraint
- Temporary works analysis
Electrical
- Power distribution
- Standby power systems
- Emergency power systems
- Lighting design
- Life safety/fire alarm–early warning smoke detection/VESDA design
- Harmonic analysis and control
- Arc Flash and coordination studies
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
- Cogeneration
- Reliability and efficiency analyses
- EMI analysis
Building Intelligence
- Internet of Things and smart building planning
- Convergence of IP systems
- Telecommunication design – infrastructure and master planning
- Wireless local area network (WLAN), local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN)
- 5G cellular data design
- RFID tracking
- Monitor and sensor integration and management
- Integrated system design
- Audio distribution
Fire Protection and Fire Engineering
- Building and fire code consultation
- Performance-based design
- Due diligence and Statement of Conditions (SOC)
- Hazardous materials analysis
- Special inspection, testing, and commissioning
- Accessibility
- Fire suppression and fire alarm design
- Smoke hazard management
Vertical Transportation
- System design and selection
- Refurbishment and maintenance
- Expert witness
- Code compliance
- Performance and condition reporting and monitoring
Plumbing
- Rainwater harvesting
- Greywater recycling
- Blackwater recycling
- Solar hot water systems
- Water auditing
- Net zero design
Commissioning Management
- Contract document reviews
- Construction submittal and sample reviews
- Factory witness testing
- Installation verification
- Major equipment start-up observation and reviews
- Pre-functional and functional testing
- Facilities operational and maintenance personnel training
- Re-commissioning and retro-commissioning
- Commissioning to meet environmental design standards including LEED, BREEAM, and Green Star
- Ongoing commissioning services
- Monitor-based commissioning services
- Thermal imaging services
Lighting Design
- Lighting design, refurbishments, modelling, and audits
- Daylighting, glare analysis, and overshadowing
- Luminaire design
- Light art and urban art
- Light pollution studies and environmental impact and dark skies assessments
- Public realm and road lighting
- Portfolio or multisite lighting strategy
- Sports lighting
- Ecological lighting
- Wellbeing and circadian lighting
- Lighting controls
Acoustics
- Planning and construction
- Building, environmental, and industrial acoustics
- Performance space acoustics
- Building services acoustics
- Sound system (PA/VA) acoustics
- Wind farms
- Vibration
- Bespoke software and systems solution
Energy Modelling
- Code compliance simulation
- LEED whole building performance analysis
- Advanced climate modeling
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis
- Envelope performance evaluation
- System studies and comparisons
- Eversource/NGRID analysis
- Energy Star
- CA Title 24
- Integrated energy systems analysis – solar, wind, thermal comfort, and building orientation
- Daylighting analysis
Security
- Specialist advice
- Design and documentation
- Security risk assessments
- Commissioning and operational management
- Integrated security solutions
- Procurement
- Implementation and contract services
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