Sustainability
Sustainability is not just a checklist. It’s not just environmental friendliness. Sustainability at E&C Engineers & Consultants is a common sense approach to energy efficiency and stewardship of our client’s utility dollars. We’ve practiced this way since our inception, not for any sustainability certifications, but because energy usage is the primary source of facility operational expenses.
E&C mechanical, electrical and plumbing experts play a key role in ensuring our clients spend their operational dollars wisely. Early in each project, we work to find energy savings ideas that meet project requirements and that can also save money while providing a reasonable ROI. We have worked with on-site renewable energy sources and have experience with reclaimed water systems. Energy modeling plays such an important role in proving energy savings that we have committed to keeping it in-house, where the information can be effectively transferred from the engineer to the modeler to provide accurate results.
E&C has designed buildings with energy and resource conserving measures such as geothermal cooling, rainwater cisterns, energy recovery chillers and laboratory air monitoring, to name a few.
E&C has modeled, commissioned or designed the full project on each of the below projects.
LEED Certified projects:
Camden Construction Offices/Warehouse, LEED Gold
TAMU NMR Facility – LEED Gold
City of Houston Central Permitting Office – LEED Gold
Kingwood Library – LEED Silver
Houston Police Department – Midwest Station District 18 – LEED Silver
Houston Area Safety Council Offices – LEED Certified
Texas A&M Agricultural Headquarters – LEED Certified
DPS Houston Crime Lab – LEED Certified
HISD Sugar Grove Academy – LEED Certified
Projects under LEED Review for Certification:
Houston Area Safety Council Clinic
Houston Area Safety Council Skills Building
HISD DeBakey High School for Health Professionals
HISD Lamar High School
HISD Madison High School
HISD Wisdom High School
HISD Parker Elementary
HCC Coleman College for Health Sciences
TAMU Agriculture Building IV