Performance.
Optimization.
Benchmarking.
Verification.
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Buildings account for nearly 40% of total global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Given this substantial impact, improving energy efficiency, adopting renewable energy sources, and positioning buildings for future success are crucial mechanisms for reducing carbon footprints and mitigating the impacts of climate change.

At SBP, we help building owners, design practitioners, and stakeholders turn these strategies into reality — not through a single service, but through an integrated set of technical capabilities that work together across a building’s full lifecycle. Whole-building energy modeling, energy auditing, Net-Zero consulting, Code Consulting, and advanced data analytics each address a different stage or question, but they draw on the same underlying expertise and are most powerful when applied in combination: evaluating architectural concepts, HVAC, lighting, controls, and renewable energy considerations to inform key design and operational decisions.

A successful project is one in which the design team understands the energy impacts of its decisions in the larger context of the project’s goals — not as an isolated compliance exercise, but as an ongoing thread that runs from early concept through construction and into operation. That’s the outcome

SBP is built to deliver: better-informed decisions at every stage, backed by the right technical tool for the moment and a team that connects them all:

SBP works to support projects from initial programming all the way through occupancy using an effective workflow that involves consistent touch-points throughout the process:

  • Performance Targets – SBP facilitates a collaborative goal setting process in early design stages and works to identify big-impact items and how to position projects to meet entitlement conditions, certification requirements, internal goals, ESG goals or building performance standards.
  • Optimization & Fine-tuning – Throughout the design development phases SBP implements whole-building energy modeling and various other tools to help quantify and inform key design decisions. SBP works to move the needle on building performance by using a forward-thinking and integrated process that effectively balances all project goals and puts the building in the best position for future success.
  • Compliance & Benchmarking – SBP collaborates with energy and green code officials and green building certification (e.g. LEED) officials to guide teams through project acceptance. 
  • Performance Verification – By applying energy auditing, M&V strategies, data-driven energy modeling, and advanced data analytics SBP is able to evaluate operational energy performance in order to ensure projects are operating as intended, assess opportunities for improvement, or evaluate overall benchmarking.