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What We offer

At Grouse Associates, we offer comprehensive energy solutions tailored to your needs, from design/build services and energy audits to implementation and project financing. Our team provides a turn-key approach, ensuring all aspects of your energy efficiency project are seamlessly managed under one contract. We specialize in creating customized energy strategies, optimizing HVAC systems, enhancing controls, and retro-commissioning to maximize performance and minimize waste. With a focus on reducing costs and improving sustainability, we offer various financing options to make your project cash-flow positive from day one. Let us help you optimize your energy use, save money, and contribute to a more sustainable future.

Client Needs

Emphasize client needs and lifecycle cost savings with comprehensive oversight from design development to commissioning.

Efficency

We'll save you money and improve the operating efficiency of your building. Through this improvements, you'll have more time to focus on what makes you money. We allow you to focus on what you're good at.

Simplicity

We give you what you need and nothing more. Saving you money without additional scope.

Innovative & Cost Effective

Provide innovative, cost-effective HVAC designs with low overhead, leveraging partnerships with competitive local installers and using AutoCAD, Revit, and BIM.

Single Contract

Integrate design and construction services under a single contract through the Design/Build approach, offering cost and time savings.

Solid Communication

Emphasize real-time updates and collaboration among various teams to ensure project cohesion, while staying updated with the latest industry trends and technology advancements.

Comprehensive Services

Offer services including design review, constructability, equipment comparison, budgeting, estimating, CAD/line drawings, BIM, life cycle analysis, major equipment purchasing, and scheduling input.

Preconstruction

Deliver preconstruction services involving conceptual estimating and design, energy analysis, cost savings through LEED analysis, cost development, and value engineering to provide insightful estimates and ensure LEED certification compliance.

Cost & Functionality

Focus on balancing cost and functionality through value engineering, promoting informed decision-making based on long-term project impacts.

BUILDING OWNER

Case Studies

Electric Rate Code Change

We provided consulting and equipment inspection services to help a building owner negotiate a more favorable electric rate. By tailoring our client’s existing infrastructure and HVAC use to the new rate, we lowered the facilities’ electric costs by 25%, or almost $100,000 a year.

electric costs
Before 100%
Electric Costs
After 75%

Plan Review for New Construction

Working with the General Contractor of a proposed logistics facility, we redesigned the cooling system using advanced controls. With a custom sequence of operations, our design used only half the equipment of the original, while maintaining the design’s intent and interior temperature set points. The construction savings on the new HVAC system was over six figures, reducing the required electrical load by 1100 amps, allowing for only one electrical service to be installed. The design smoothed out their electrical load curve so their demand charges were less, using more power during off-peak times when $/kWh is less. This was a win for Cap-ex and Op-ex.

The construction and commercial real estate industries are made up of complex groups and systems. Our efficient designs for both new construction and rehab/replacement simplify execution and save money. We solve for designs that are incomplete or poor quality, reducing embodied carbon and lowering costs.  A win-win.

Decarbonization

Decarbonization refers to a comprehensive approach aimed at reducing the carbon emissions associated with your building’s energy use and operations. It involves several strategies, such as:

  • Upgrading to High-Efficiency Systems: Implementing modern, energy-efficient HVAC and electrical systems that consume less energy and produce fewer emissions.
  • Integrating Renewable Energy: Utilizing on-site renewable energy sources like solar panels or wind turbines to power your building, thereby reducing dependence on fossil fuels.
  • Electrification of Heating and Cooling: Shifting from traditional fossil-fuel-based systems to electric systems, particularly those powered by clean energy, which further reduces carbon emissions.
  • Optimizing Building Design and Retrofitting: Enhancing the building’s insulation, ventilation, and overall design to improve energy efficiency and lower the demand for heating and cooling.
  • Utilizing Smart Technology: Incorporating smart building systems that monitor and optimize energy use in real-time, ensuring that energy is consumed only when and where it’s needed.
  • Storing Energy Efficiently: Employing energy storage solutions that allow your building to use stored renewable energy during peak times, reducing reliance on grid energy which may be carbon-intensive.
  • Capturing and Offsetting Carbon: For emissions that cannot be avoided, carbon capture technologies can be used to trap and store carbon, and carbon offset programs can be implemented to balance out remaining emissions by supporting environmental projects elsewhere.

Overall, decarbonization is about transforming the way your building consumes energy, with the goal of significantly reducing its carbon footprint. This not only helps fight climate change but also aligns with emerging regulatory standards, potentially lowers energy costs, and improves the market value of your property by making it more sustainable and future-proof.