Environmental Designer Energy Analysis Specialty, San Francisco

Thank you for asking! Kindness and curiosity are some of Atelier Ten’s core tenets.

We are a team of environmental designers and carbon strategists championing for a healthier planet by leveraging our vast, collective knowledge of sustainable spaces. We help bring beauty and efficiency to every building, because like Maybelline, not all buildings are “born with it.” We work with architects, engineers, owners, and other stakeholders to accomplish their sustainability, wellness, functionality, and visual goals.

We don’t just follow the trends of the industry, we trailblaze new paths to create high performance, sustainable, and award-winning buildings. Atelier Ten is a member company of Surbana Jurong (“SJ”), a global urban, infrastructure and managed services consulting firm based in more than 120 offices across 40 countries.

Let’s take a moment to see the overview of the role before we get into the nitty gritty.

We want you to be Atelier Ten San Francisco’s newest full-time Environmental Designer with a specialty in Energy Analysis with the goal of collaborating on projects to achieve energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction goals. You would help produce technical deliverables, perform whole building energy modeling, develop engineering strategies for building systems (HVAC), consult on projects, and lead the industry in decarbonizing the built environment.

You would be an integral member of an interdisciplinary environmental design consulting group and a key member of the company’s Energy Analysis practice.

Days at Atelier Ten are filled with a large variety of project types from offices, labs to large masterplans. We promise to keep you challenged and never bored. Here are some regular tasks you may encounter:

• Learn our internal methodologies that follow the energy analysis protocols of ASHRAE 90.1 (and other industry, state, or local standards) for new and existing building projects in any location or climate zone. Participate in our customized training program to build on your already robust critical thinking skills, root your knowledge based on first principals of buildings science and deliver analyses for world-class projects and clients.
• Develop shoe-box and whole building energy models (in IES-VE and/or eQuest) to support a range of energy analyses for building design. Evaluate envelope performance, massing, and mechanical system optioneering across diverse climate zones and standards.
• Identify and analyze net-zero energy and carbon strategies based on various metrics (i.e. carbon emissions, time of use rates, source/site, etc.)
• Support senior staff to coordinate sustainability assessments, energy and thermal comfort analysis, energy benchmarking, development of climate impact mitigation strategies, life cycle cost analysis etc. on building and planning projects.
• Collaborate with Atelier Ten’s integrated design groups to support the full range of our services, which include environmental design consulting, daylight and façade analysis, and benchmarking.
• Use both analytical and computational methods to analyze unique and complex building physics and building systems.
• Assist colleagues with energy analysis-related work which includes simulating buildings to arrive at carbon emissions calculations, annual cost analysis and life cycle cost analysis.
• Review and interpret project architectural and mechanical design documentation for the purposes of performing whole building energy model simulations.
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration with architects, MEP engineers, design team members, and internal environmental design teams to make energy and carbon emissions improvement recommendations.
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