Energy Analyst/Environmental Designer

surbanajurong; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Atelier Ten in New York City is seeking a full-time Environmental Designer with a specialty in Energy Analysis to help achieve energy efficiency and carbon reduction goals across projects. You will produce technical deliverables, run whole-building energy models, and develop strategies for building systems in collaboration with architects and engineers.

As a member of our Energy Analysis practice, you’ll contribute to decarbonizing the built environment, attend project meetings, and communicate

Qualifications

• Experience performing whole-building energy modeling.
• Ability to analyze building energy performance and identify carbon reduction strategies.
• Strong collaboration with architects and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop shoe-box and whole building energy models to support energy analyses.
• Evaluate envelope performance and mechanical system options across climate zones.
• Identify net-zero energy and carbon strategies using various metrics.
• Prepare summaries and technical reports for clients and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with design teams to improve energy and carbon outcomes.
• Present analyses to project teams and clients during reviews.

Skills

Energy modeling

Building science

Carbon emissions reduction

Collaborative teamwork

Tools

IES-VE

eQuest

Revit

Job description

Who are we?

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. 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.

What is this role on a high level?

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 New York'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. This position is in the New York City office and is not a remote position.

What your day-to-day looks like

Days at Atelier Ten are filled with a large variety of project types from offices, higher education buildings, and 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 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 and optioneering.
• 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.)
• Prepare written summaries of work and technical reports for clients or other stakeholders.
• 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.
• Use both analytical and computational methods to analyze unique and complex building physics and building systems.
• Review and interpret project architectural and mechanical design documentation for the purposes of performing whole building energy model simulations.
• Collaborate closely with architects and design team members to make energy and carbon emissions improvement recommendations.
• Assist colleagues with energy analysis-related work which includes simulating buildings to arrive at carbon emissions calculations, annual energy cost analysis and life cycle cost analysis.
• Working with Atelier Ten's Energy Analysis practice to develop new approaches and tools to improve team efficiency.
• Develop and maintain in-house databases and spreadsheet tools, methods and standards.
• Attend site visits, project meetings and present analyses to the stakeholders.
• 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, lighting design and benchmarking.

What we are looking for

Hopefully you're on board so far and excited about what your days at Atelier Ten will look like. We do have a few items on our wish list for you to become the next great Atelier Tenner. We are looking for someone who is curious, proactive, self-motivated with an appreciation and willingness to learn on multiple projects. They should have attention to detail, a desire to problem-solve, grit, and an open mind to learn from colleagues, clients and the training resources available. They will possess an eye for improving existing processes, interest in tool building, and communicating ideas and complex technical concepts to any audience.

They will thrive when working in a collaborative environment and understand that an energy analyst's work is part of the integrative design process; they will embrace the nature of iterative design and be highly co