TSA's Signature Capabilities
Buildings and Facility Energy Analysis
Understanding how energy systems operate in simple residential units, commercial buildings, large complex multi-building facilities, and industrial settings is accomplished through the integration of state-of-the-art metering and data acquisition technologies, building simulation tools, energy investment optimization tools, and other basic and advanced statistical and analytic tools. Staff members coordinate instrumentation, data collection, and analysis tasks as a team to consistently deliver complete and reliable data and meaningful interpretation. Key capabilities include engineering, thermal modeling, building simulation, and energy economics.
Sustainable Design
Staff members have significant breadth and depth of expertise and international experience in sustainable building design and unequalled capabilities in monitoring and measuring building performance. TSA has several staff members that are U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accredited professionals who head sustainable design project teams. They have led design brainstorming sessions, performed design reviews and been members of the facility design teams for projects including office buildings, schools and research laboratories.
Carbon Management
Staff apply engineering, geological and energy economic modeling capabilities to studying carbon capture and sequestration issues, with particular emphasis on developing and applying two state-of-the-art models designed to examine the large scale deployment of carbon management technologies as a means of addressing climate change: the MiniCAM Integrated Assessment Model and the Battelle CO2-GIS, a bottom-up geographic information system-based model that was built specifically to examine the deployment of CCS technologies at the sub-regional level in the United States.