MECHANICAL

Our team provides design of heating and cooling systems including refrigerant, water-based, boiler and more.

We offer thermal modelling of loads, including analysis and advice on glazing, passive shading, and insulation. This ensures efficient design and benefits our clients by reducing HVAC capital and operational costs, while also improving comfort.

We provide ventilation design to comply with the NZ building code as well as specialist areas including operating theatres/healthcare facilities, fume cupboards, welding bays, dust extract systems, commercial kitchens and much more.

Our team carries out medical gas system design, from manifolds to outlets for hospitals, dental and other medical facilities including oxygen, nitrogen, medical air, surgical air, compressed air, entonox, cardon dioxide, helium and more. Our staff carry out both MGPS Competent and Accredited Person accreditations.

We carry out the design of laboratory gas systems including local bottle and centralised distribution systems incorporating automatic changeover and external monitoring for gases.

Taking a practical approach to the application of a wide range of international standard requirements, we integrate these with local legislation in areas including health and safety, hazardous substances, seismic resilience and redundancy.

Our services include thermal insulation assessment for building code compliance. We offer assessments in accordance with H1/AS1 and AS2, as well as modelling method H1/VM1 and VM2.

We also provide early-stage full building simulation to optimise façade design for passive building performance. Simulations can be undertaken to consider thermal performance for heating and cooling, energy consumption, occupant thermal comfort and daylighting.

We have experience completing energy audits and reviews of existing systems operation of all types of buildings to identify areas where they could operate more efficiently with the systems installed. This can help to develop options to improve or replace systems to provide greater functionality, comfort, and energy efficiency.

Our team strives to deliver application-specific control systems that provide building users, operators and owners the level of detail they each need, reducing the amount of unwanted information. System complexity can range from standalone controllers, through to central building management systems, to campus-wide common control infrastructure/platforms, associated management systems, dashboards and reporting tools.

Utilising open communications standards and protocols, our team seeks to ensure control systems are modular and can be maintained, upgraded and replaced throughout the economic life of the built environment.

We consider controllability and system interfaces from the concept phase of building design through to construction and commissioning and into maintenance. This lays the foundation for building operators to monitor ongoing system behaviours and measure performance to help optimise building performance in the face of changing occupant behaviours and requirements throughout a building’s lifecycle.