Building Performance Consultant (Built Ecology)

This Opportunity

WSP, an award winning and innovative multi-disciplinary engineering consulting firm, is looking for a Job Title for the Built Ecology team in Chicago, IL. Our team works closely with organizations, owners, developers, architects, and tenants from around the world on large, complex projects with a focus on sustainability, health, resilience, user experience, and operational efficiency in the built environment.

Built Ecology is WSP's national Built Environment Sustainability practice, providing a broad range of services including sustainability strategy and planning, target-setting and workshop facilitation, high-performance design assistance, computational building performance analysis, building certifications, energy and GHG master planning, and building performance verification. We work across a wide range of project types and scales, from master planning and district infrastructure to building design and construction, to ongoing performance and operations. Built Ecology has been directly responsible for driving many leading projects across the globe, including LEED Platinum buildings, Living Building Challenge and WELL projects, Net Zero energy and water projects, EcoDistricts, corporate programs, and improvements for large building portfolios. Our solutions are typically innovative, integrated, data-driven, and practical.

Our team brings a structured approach while also identifying unique opportunities on each project. We influence strategic decisions to achieve sustainable outcomes in buildings, neighborhoods, and organizations.

Your Impact

Ideal candidates will exhibit the following characteristics:

• Passionate about creating a sustainable, healthy, resilient, and equitable built environment

• Driven to evaluate and recommend solutions that deliver high-performance design outcomes

• Background in high-performance building design, analysis, and consulting

• Strong verbal, written, and visual communication skills

• Committed to working with and supporting a national sustainability team

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead detailed energy modeling and building performance analysis activities to achieve established performance targets, LEED certification, code compliance, and other energy performance goals

• Utilize energy modeling tools to complete carbon modeling and develop net zero carbon roadmaps

• Interpret climate information and building use typologies to inform building design strategies

• Perform daylight analysis and CFD modeling to evaluate high-performance design strategies and support project design decisions

• Write reports detailing analysis activities and design advice

• Liaise internally to facilitate the achievement of project sustainability objectives

• Review building documentation for the integration of high-performance design aspects

• Provide LEED strategy and advice, particularly around energy and IEQ aspects

• Deliver high performance design analysis and project design advice of a high technical standard, integrated across architecture and building systems

• Research new and existing technologies for application in the built environment with a focus on electrification, grid-interactive technologies, and district scale solutions

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a building design or building science discipline that could include: Mechanical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Architecture, Building Science or similar

• 3-5+ years of energy modeling experience for high-performance projects, building certification (i.e. LEED, Passive House, net-zero, EnergyStar, etc.), and code compliance

• Ability to independently read and interpret architectural and engineering drawings

• Familiarity with IECC and ASHRAE requirements and energy modeling protocols

• Knowledge of mechanical system architecture and components

• Experience with IES-VE, OpenStudio, and/or EnergyPlus

• LEED Green Associate

Preferred Qualifications:

• Building Energy Modeling Professional certification

• Professional Engineer or Registered Architect

• LEED Accredited Professional

• Experience with parametric energy modeling, load calculations, carbon analysis, and district systems

• Familiarity with Building Performance Standards and stretch codes focused on energy efficiency and electrification

• Knowledge of mechanical systems and building physics for data centers, hospitals, laboratories, advanced manufacturing, and battery energy storage systems

• Proficient in Rhino and Grasshopper, C#, Python, and/or other programming languages

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