Leaders In Sustainability

Morrison Hershfield is a North American leader in sustainability for the built environment and is committed to innovative ideas and solutions that help our clients to achieve their sustainability goals.

BuildingsTransportationCarbonLandEnergy

Buildings

• Full multidisciplinary engineering services including mechanical, electrical, structural, building code, building envelope and commissioning
• LEED^® or Green Facilitating
• Integrated design facilitating/coordination
• Sustainable building design guidelines
• Simulations and Analysis: energy use, natural lighting, thermal analysis
• Waste management
• Testing: water and air leakage, thermographic scans
• Research and Life Cycle Analysis
• Emerging Technologies: green roofs, living walls, building integrated energy, etc.
• Failure analysis and rehabilitation

Transportation

• Goal setting and monitoring
• Policy and program development
• Planning for sustainable communities
• Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions and criteria air contaminants
• Financial and economic implications on public and private entities
• Transportation demand management
• Planning for and accommodation of alternative modes of transport, including mass transit, cycling and walking

Carbon

• Measurement of the carbon footprint of a building, a structure or a campus
• Identification and implementation of ways and means to reduce the measured carbon footprint
• Identification and implementation of ways and means to offset the difference between the measured/reduced carbon footprint and the acceptable footprint as determined by regulatory agencies of government or the private sector

Land

• Sustainable community planning
• LEED^® for Neighborhood Development
• Audubon environmental program for golf courses
• Sustainable site planning
• Context sensitive design
• Green master site planning
• Environmental assessment/mitigation
• Water and air quality
• Ecology

Energy

• Alternative energy planning
• Emerging energy technology
• Wind power feasibility
• Co-generation
• Distributed power systems
• Biomass