Sustainability Advisory & Consulting
At LEO, we provide a suite of consulting services designed to guide projects towards sustainability, efficiency, and well-being. We work with companies to encompass energy performance, environmental stewardship, and occupant health, ensuring that every project not only meets but exceeds contemporary sustainability standards.
Energy Efficiency Services
Optimizing energy performance from concept to operation for efficient, low-impact buildings.
- Energy Modeling & Lifecycle Forecasting: We use advanced modeling tools to simulate a building’s energy use across its lifecycle. This allows clients to make informed decisions about design strategies, system selections, and long-term energy savings.
- Passive Design Consulting: We integrate natural strategies, like daylighting, natural ventilation, and thermal mass, to reduce reliance on mechanical systems, cutting costs and emissions.
- Envelope Performance Analysis: Using thermal modeling and diagnostic tools, we identify and eliminate weak points in building envelopes that lead to energy loss, discomfort, or condensation issues.
- Electrification Roadmapping: We guide buildings toward full electrification, removing fossil fuels from heating, cooling, and cooking systems, while ensuring compatibility with renewable energy sources.
- Energy audits and commissioning ensure buildings operate as efficiently as they were designed to. We provide comprehensive energy audits (ASHRAE Levels 1–3) that identify areas of inefficiency and guide upgrades for lighting, HVAC, controls, and envelope systems. Our commissioning services verify that building systems are correctly installed and tuned, either at project completion (Cx) or post-occupancy (retro-Cx). This process improves performance, lowers operating costs, and supports LEED, WELL, and ESG goals.
LEED Applications Quality Control BELOW THE 3 SERVICES ABOVE WITH THE SAME STYLE.
Environmental Services
- Reducing environmental impact through circularity, nature integration, and regenerative strategy.
- Construction Waste Minimization Plans: We design pre-construction strategies that prioritize reuse, modularity, and material recovery, keeping waste out of landfills.
- Ecological Site Design: We help teams integrate green infrastructure, habitat corridors, and water-sensitive planning to restore site ecology and improve biodiversity.
- Sustainable Management Plans (SMPs): provide a strategic roadmap for minimizing the environmental and social impacts of a project across its lifecycle. These plans cover themes such as construction site sustainability, material sourcing, water use, biodiversity preservation, and long-term operational practices. Our team prepares SMPs that align with LEED, WELL, ESG, and local regulatory frameworks, ensuring compliance while adding value and clarity to sustainability goals. SMPs are essential for large projects, public infrastructure, or any development seeking to formalize its sustainability commitments.
Comfort & Wellbeing Services
- Design buildings that support health, mental well-being, and user comfort: because sustainability begins with people.
- Indoor Airflow & IAQ Modeling (CFD): We use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate airflow and pollutant distribution, ensuring clean, healthy indoor environments.
- Human-Centered Daylighting Design: We assess natural lighting to support occupant circadian rhythms, productivity, and visual comfort.
- Biophilic Systems Integration: We incorporate natural materials, vegetation, and patterns that enhance mood, reduce stress, and reconnect people with nature—indoors and outdoors.
LEED Applications Quality Control
Achieving LEED certification demands precise documentation and strategic credit alignment across design, construction, and operations phases. Our LEED Applications Quality Control service ensures that every submission meets the highest standards of accuracy, completeness, and compliance with LEED rating systems.
We conduct thorough reviews of project documentation, including energy models, material sourcing records, indoor air quality management plans, construction waste reports, ongoing commissioning documentation, and operational policies.
Additionally, we provide targeted support for credit-specific questions, helping project teams interpret LEED requirements, develop compliant strategies, and respond effectively to GBCI reviewer comments.
By identifying gaps early and optimizing submissions for GBCI review, we help project teams minimize risks, avoid delays, and secure successful certification outcomes across all project stages.
