Collaboration, family, and fun. These are the words I would use to describe the 2022 Summer Summit. People came from offices all the way out in Raleigh, NC, Norfolk, VA, and Newark, DE, to the main headquarters here in McLean, VA. It took an incredible amount of coordination and planning from all parties involved to… Read More

During my internship I have learned a lot, doing CAD modeling, and load calcs in Trace. I cannot enter a building anymore without looking for ductwork, supply diffusers, return grilles, and plenums. I was assigned to work on a project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) which involved the design of fume… Read More

This summer, one of the buildings I worked on was the was a secure facility in Maryland. The facility is a two-story, underground building that has been used as a standby command center, Secret Service Training Center, and National Archives storage. Currently, the building is being renovated to house different research groups. For this project,… Read More

One of the most interesting projects that I had the opportunity to work on was with the in-house designers and engineers at a secure government facility in the Metropolitan Washington area. It actually included a lot of mini projects, each with their own unique renovations to consider. It was empowering that I was able to… Read More

It is hard to believe that my 10 weeks at Summer Consultants has already come to an end. Coming into this internship, I didn’t really know what to expect, but I was very eager to get valuable experience and expand my engineering knowledge. This experience has allowed me to do exactly that and more. As… Read More