EMO in the news...
Dupont Fabros ACC5 and South Lake at Dulles Win NAIOP Awards
Two buildings that EMO provided sustainable design consulting for have won NAIOP Awards for 2009. Dupont Fabros ACC5, currently a LEED-NC 2.2 Gold Candidate, won "Best Speculative Building R&D/Industrial/Flex: Award of Excellence." South Lake at Dulles, recently awarded LEED-CS 2.0 Certification, took Best Building, 8 Stories and Above: Award of Merit."... (NAIOP Awards)
Mike Babcock was elected to serve on the USGBC
National Capital Region Board of Directors for the 2009-2010 term (website)
EMO Assisting Bentley With Development and Evaluation of Hevacomp Application for US Market
“We have been looking for a suitable front end for the DOE EnergyPlus simulation engine and we are impressed with Bentley’s commitment to adopting a simulation tool that uses the open EnergyPlus engine. The integrated simulation tools, including energy, lighting, pipe and duct design, will advance the capabilities of mechanical and electric design firms.” — Thomas Serra, Project Manager, EMO Energy Solutions, LLC(read more)
EMO assists DC-metro area Holiday Inn in achieving $37,000 Commercial Building Tax Deduction (CBTD)
"To determine the hotel’s qualification for the CBTD, energy modeling using the installed REHAU-Polytec 50 hybrid curtain wall window system was conducted, and showed a resulting regulated utility cost reduction of 12.4 percent," said Justin Aruck, project manager at EMO Energy Solutions, the engineering firm that conducted the project’s energy modeling. "Overall, the REHAU-Polytec 50 hybrid curtain wall system provides a modeled energy cost savings of nearly $10,000 per year," said Aruck. (read more)