Description
Create, calibrate, and analyze building energy simulation models to quantify savings, guide design, and demonstrate code, LEED, or utility-incentive compliance. Collaborate with architects and MEP teams to optimize HVAC, envelope, lighting, and controls from concept through commissioning.
- • Develop and run whole-building energy models for new construction and existing buildings.
- • Build baseline and proposed models per ASHRAE 90.1 Appendix G, IECC, or Title 24.
- • Calibrate models to utility bills, interval data, and M&V results.
- • Perform parametric studies to compare HVAC, envelope, lighting, and control options.
- • Generate end-use breakdowns, load profiles, and savings estimates.
- • Support LEED energy modeling and prepare compliance forms and narratives.
- • Analyze utility tariffs and model rate impacts, demand charges, and TOU schedules.
- • Review architectural, mechanical, and electrical drawings to extract model inputs.
- • Conduct sensitivity and uncertainty analyses to prioritize energy conservation measures.
- • Produce clear modeling reports, appendices, and QA/QC documentation.
- • Collaborate with architects, MEP engineers, and owners to align modeling assumptions.
- • Validate inputs with site visits, submetering, trend logs, and data collection.
- • Advise on control sequences and schedules; simulate BAS strategies.
- • Support energy audits with rapid models and end-use benchmarking.
- • Perform life-cycle cost analyses for ECM packages and equipment sizing impacts.
- • Create scripts or custom measures to automate workflows in tools such as EnergyPlus or OpenStudio.
- • Provide code compliance summaries and respond to reviewer comments.
- • Train team members or clients on modeling methods, assumptions, and results.
- • Model distributed energy resources, demand response, and storage interactions.
- • Maintain model libraries and ensure version control and reproducibility.
- • Support commissioning and retro-commissioning by comparing model predictions to operational data.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
