High Performing, Sustainable, and Healthy Buildings
Newcomb & Boyd’s sustainability centered design practices provide clients with innovative solutions that elevate the level of building design, comfort, and performance. Only through fluid communication, a deep understanding of systems and synergies, and embracing the open-minded and collaborative spirit of integrated design, can we achieve truly high performance and sustainable projects. With this mission and philosophy in mind, Newcomb & Boyd’s integrated design team provides a comprehensive set of services related to high performance and health buildings, eliminating design silos and the need for multiple contractors.
Our High Performance and Healthy Building (HPHB) team works with owners and design teams to develop an integrated approach to each project. With a combined 60+ years of mechanical engineering, high performance building design, and energy analysis expertise, coupled with Newcomb & Boyd’s more than eight decades of engineering leadership, the HPHB team members understand building systems and services and their interrelationship with climate, site, form, function, and operational life cycle.
We provide consulting for 3rd party Rating Systems including LEED, WELL, Fitwel, Green Globes, ENERGY STAR, RESET, SITES, and more.
Newcomb & Boyd’s ESG team provides planning and design consulting services in the following areas:
• Benchmarking and performance targets
• Climate-based design
• Building envelope and glazing systems
• Daylighting, lighting and lighting controls
• Process & plug load management
• Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system selection and design
• Building water systems
• On-site power generation / cogeneration
• Renewable energy
• Building automation controls
• Commissioning
• Operations & maintenance
• Green building certifications
• LEED consulting
In 2011, buildings in the United States consumed 40% of our energy, released 30% of domestic greenhouse gas emissions, and 38% of carbon dioxide emissions, and used nearly 13% of all potable water in the country. With new construction representing less than 2% of the inventory, improving the performance of our existing buildings represents a tremendous opportunity to positively affect resource conservation, air quality and the collective bottom line.
Our ESG team provides a suite of existing building energy and water consulting services designed to elevate building performance, including:
• Energy and water assessments
• Energy baselining
• System submetering & analysis
• Building energy optimization
• Retrocommissioning
• Operations & maintenance consulting
• Green building consulting
• Performance contracting consulting
• Energy Star
• Fitwel consulting
Energy & Sustainability Clients
Georgia Tech
Architect: Cooper Carry, Inc.
Associate Architect: Lake|Flato Architects
The Roger A. and Helen B. Krone Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB) includes wet laboratories, classrooms, a cafe, and offices and is home to the Physiological Research Laboratory. Sustainable features include a high performance envelope with sun shading, energy recovery wheels, radiant flooring, chilled beams, condensing hot water boilers, displacement ventilation, demand control ventilation, rainwater recovery, high efficiency plumbing fixtures, LED lighting, and daylighting. The EBB achieved LEED Platinum certification, and was named one of the 2018 COTE Top Ten Green Projects by the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
California Military Department Headquarters
Architect: Stantec Inc.
A headquarters complex for the California Military Department, including the 233,000 square foot headquarters building, the 25,000 square foot Emergency/Network Operations Center, a 26,000 square foot warehouse, and the 3,000 square foot Visitors Center. Sustainable elements include a radiant heating and cooling system, and a 180,000 square foot photovoltaic system. This complex will target a net-zero energy use.
Georgia Tech
Architect: Lord Aeck Sargent
Associate Architect: The Miller|Hull Partnership, LLC
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is a living-learning laboratory building comprised of two sixty-four person classrooms, two twenty-four person classrooms, two sixteen person class laboratories, a sixteen person conference room, makerspaces, student collaboration and research space, areas for public gathering, and a 170 person auditorium. Sustainable features include, radiant cooling and heating, daylight harvesting, automatic externally operated shades, natural ventilation, rainwater harvesting, condensate recovery, a Dedicated Outside Air System, a high efficiency envelope, demand control ventilation, occupancy sensors, and photovoltaics. This facility achieved Living Certification for the Living Building Challenge 3.1.
Towson University
Architect: Ayers/Saint/Gross Inc.
Phases III and IV of the West Village Housing complex comprising Marshall Hall and Carroll Hall, two high-rise residence halls. Sustainable features include a dedicated outside air system, building skin optimization, domestic water preheat, energy recovery systems, lighting controls and daylighting, high efficiency central equipment, and variable refrigerant flow. This complex achieved LEED Gold certification.
University of Maryland
Architect: Ayers/Saint/Gross Inc.
A 303,500 square foot, three building complex, including two 440 bed residence halls, and a 57,950 square foot, 1,200 seat dining hall. The project is pursuing LEED Silver certification.
Georgia Tech
Architect: Collins Cooper Carusi Architects, Inc.
Associate Architect: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
An office building with an 800 vehicle parking deck on Dalney Street. The parking deck serves the Krone Engineered Biosystems Building, the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, and the BioTech Quad. The office spaces support the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. This building is Net Zero Ready.
Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Federal Courthouse
Architect: Duvall Decker Architects, P.A.
Associate Architect: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
The Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Federal Courthouse houses one District courtroom, one Magistrate courtroom, office space for the United States Courts, the United States Marshals Service, the United States Probation Office, the Federal Public Defender, the United States Attorney’s Office, and the GSA’s Public Buildings Service. The building will pursue LEED Gold and SITES Silver.
Acoustical Services
architectural acoustics, sound isolation, equipment noise and vibration control, environmental
High Performing, Sustainable, and Healthy Buildings
planning and design, modeling and economic analysis, building automation, benchmarking and
Intelligent Building Systems
open architecture controls framework, systems integration design, data visualization, IT network
