Many buildings today utilize rooftop equipment. Generally speaking, most rooftop HVAC air handling units and exhaust fans are installed with duct connections made below the roof. Every once in a while, we find that roof mounted duct is required to get the air where it needs to go. Designing rooftop duct is not as simple… Read More

As a building owner, the choices you make during a renovation project can improve the health of your building and protect the health of its occupants. Your decisions can also give tenants the confidence they need to reoccupy and resume their lives. Your choices can not only solve short-term problems but provide lasting benefits. As… Read More

Summer Consultants’ senior mechanical engineers Anne Juran, PE, LEED AP BD+C, CxA and Jim Gawthrop, PE, LEED AP BD+C, BEMP were featured speakers at the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Joint Engineering Training Conference n May 2020.  Due to current conditions, the conference was held virtually for the first time with webinars and a… Read More

Six months after I started at Summer Consultants, I joined the design team to renovate and expand the Brault Building at the NVCC Annandale campus.  The project had a goal of a LEED Silver rating. I had been very interested in sustainable technologies in college, and this was the first project that I would get to… Read More

When designing new systems or upgrades to existing systems, we are focused on equipment and system selection to prevent corrosion of the interior of hydronic piping systems. While this is important for system longevity, in real life there are widespread vapor barrier failures in almost every chilled water system, leading to leaks and failures caused… Read More