New building commissioning can help pave the way for a healthy and cost-effective future for all new residential and commercial builds. As a critical step in the process of creating a new building, commissioning should never be skipped. In fact, this upfront...
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Luxury Living at the Top: Avoid Mistakes when Adding a Penthouse to a Commercial Building
The placement of a penthouse on top of a commercial building is becoming more attractive and common. These units are often highly sought after by luxury homeowners seeking a unique living experience with the convenience of being located in a central business...
Importance of Commissioning Buildings with HVAC Controlled by DDC or BAS
The best practice is plain and simple: Commissioning should start before design, as outlined by ASHRAE and other industries. This is easy to say but takes discipline to do. In this blog, we are going to discuss why you need to perform commissioning at the startup...
Electric Heating: Powering Today’s Future
Innovative advancements have propelled electric heating using heat pumps to become a powerful solution for today and the future. From sophisticated heat pumps to advanced control systems, electric heating solutions are efficient and offer greater control and design...
Advanced Energy Modeling: Maximizing Luxury Home Sustainability
Although HERS ratings are already mandatory for every new home in Aspen, Pitkin County, Boulder and Boulder County Colorado, the addition of Advanced Energy Modeling offers luxury homeowners a pathway to achieve even higher energy efficiency and sustainability,...
What is Life Cycle Cost Analysis?
What is Life Cycle Cost Analysis? When speaking to client’s about the capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenditures (OpEx) of their heating, cooling and ventilation systems, we find the best way to communicate is a shared language of dollars and cents. To do...
Commercial Building Electrification Guide
Without electric heating, your building risks falling behind industry standards. Electric heating is a long-proven and highly effective approach to achieving sustainability and energy efficiency. Buildings are responsible for about 28% of global CO2 emissions, with...
Net Zero Construction: The Future in the Built Environment
Net zero emissions buildings represent a groundbreaking approach to sustainable architecture, aiming to completely offset their carbon emissions over their operational lifespan. These innovative structures harness a combination of renewable energy sources,...
Indoor Air Quality Services: How to Enjoy Better Air
Indoor air quality services have surged in importance and popularity due to heightened awareness of health and environmental concerns. The realization that indoor air can be significantly more polluted than outdoor air has underscored the critical role of indoor air...
How Energy Modeling Can Benefit Your Building Project
At DMA Engineering, we firmly believe that energy modeling supports successful outcomes. To that end, we work with building owners to determine how and why buildings are struggling to maintain energy efficiency so the right adjustments can be made. Every building...