Energy and Architecture

Noel Susskind has been designing and managing the construction of mechanical systems for 30 years. His knowledge of building energy usage and efficiency is wide and deep, as he has analyzed and reported on the HVAC and lighting energy of over a hundred buildings during his career. Additionally, he has had significant or complete engineering HVAC design responsibility on over 200 buildings in his career.

He typically will take an architectural design at any stage of development, quickly develop energy calculations and models, and explain this to owners, architects and other team members. He provides written reports or in-house presentations, with his recommendations. He can help any designer understand, evaluate, and assure that building energy benchmarks and standards such as LEED, ASHRAE and the energy code are applicable, appropriate, feasible and design constructable buildings to meet those

He recommends using energy solutions on buildings when the improvement is projected to give a competitive return on investment. Of course, since weather, fuel commodity prices, and operating variables are volatile, the exact result can never be guaranteed. But only by due diligence and most current and appropriate engineering practices, decisions can be made with full knowledge of their implications.

Mr. Susskind has significant experience in construction management and cost engineering. He has done numerous economic payback analyses, for both commercial and institutional /government buildings, in HVAC, domestic hot water, lighting and power. Architects, contractors and owners find Noel to be especially thorough and helpful in understanding their design, whether it is an existing facility or new.

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