Perkins Eastman ups its game on energy modeling

Perkins Eastman says it has made a firmwide push to standardize energy performance modeling on its projects.

The firm’s latest sustainability report notes that in 2024 it submitted 260 projects to the AIA 2030 commitment. Of those projects, nearly 99% included energy modeling, up from 49% of such projects in 2023.

“We refined how we track project performance, grounding our design process in data and analysis to make decarbonization goals actionable,” the report says. Projects that were modeled achieved an average 59.91% reduction in predicted energy use intensity (pEUI).

One example is La Mora Senior Apartments in Yonkers, N.Y., the nation’s first modular-built, Phius-certified senior housing facility. The project delivered affordable, high-performance homes for seniors while optimizing cost, schedule, and environmental impact, the firm says.