Affiliated Engineers • 14th November 2022

Consulting-Specifying Engineer Highlights AEI Thought Leadership in Fire Protection & Intelligent Building Design

From smoke dampers to smart buildings, AEI Senior Commissioning Engineer John Herboth and Principal Sanjyot Bhusari share key industry insights while emphasizing fire protection, life safety, and technology systems planning and design in three recent Consulting-Specifying Engineer (CSE) article features: • Benefits of Using Professionals for Smoke Damper Investigation and Repair Services Recently declared a top content feature by CSE, the article by AEI’s John Herboth — Benefits of Using Profes

Affiliated Engineers • 8th November 2022

National STEM/STEAM Day 2022: Engaging the Next Generation of Global Change Makers

While National STEM/STEAM Day may only fall once a year, ongoing youth engagement and outreach is at the very core of everyday life here at AEI. To ensure continued human progress, the next generation of global change heavily relies not only on innovations across science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEM/STEAM), but, more importantly, the motivated individuals and professionals dedicated to pursuing careers in these critical fields. In honor of 2022 National STEM/STEAM Day

Affiliated Engineers • 3rd October 2022

Exact Sciences Clinical Processing Lab Wins First Place in 2022 ASHRAE Technology Awards

AEI is pleased to announce Building Performance Consultant Shana Scheiber and Principal Rick Flock have been recognized in ASHRAE Journal’s September Issue for their work on Exact Sciences’ Clinical Processing Laboratory — one of the first-place winners in the 2022 ASHRAE Technology Awards. Featured as part of the Journal’s 2022 ASHRAE Technology Award Case Studies titled, Odor Avoidance Primary IAQ Concern for Lab Design, this project required extensive design team collaboration and highly spe

Affiliated Engineers • 3rd October 2022

Celebrating (and Commemorating) that Summer State of Mind

From the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest, team members from AEI Charlottesville and AEI Seattle were excited to partake in two engineering site visits investigating surgical and cleanroom space. As part of an air handling unit replacement effort, individuals from AEI Charlottesville took the night shift at a prominent academic medical center based in Charlottesville, Virginia, to evaluate existing conditions — including temperature, humidity, and pressure control — across three operating ro

Affiliated Engineers • 21st September 2022

Supporting Local: AEI Attends AIA Wisconsin Design Gala & Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation Anniversary Celebration

Celebrating 25 years of supporting women and families through vital health services, education, and outreach, the Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation (WWHF) held its Party on the Rooftop anniversary event at the iconic Monona Terrace in downtown Madison last Saturday night. AEI was a proud sponsor of the event, which included a moving presentation by Tommi Thompson, executive director of WWHF, highlighting the organization’s many accomplishments and impact over the past 25 years.

Affiliated Engineers • 14th September 2022

Collins Aerospace Celebrates Grand Opening of North Wind Tunnel

Team members from AEI Madison were thrilled to attend the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the highly anticipated grand opening of Collins Aerospace’s North Wind Tunnel facility in Rockford, Illinois. Designed to advance the company’s signature Ram Air Turbine product — innovative aircraft technology that deploys in the event of critical power loss — the $18 million project expands the company’s overall testing capabilities while establishing a state-of-the-art wind tunnel facility fe

Affiliated Engineers • 14th September 2022

Lab Manager Highlights AEI Project Innovation at Caltech and California Air Resources Board

Following recognition in its 2022 Design Excellence Awards program, Lab Manager recently published two articles highlighting the California Institute of Technology’s (Caltech) Chen Neuroscience Research Building and the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Southern California Headquarters. Each project serves as a modern steward of sustainable design and laboratory innovation, and AEI was honored to collaborate on these efforts.

Affiliated Engineers • 7th September 2022

Driving Future Change: California Air Resources Board’s Southern California Headquarters Raises the Bar for All-Electric Building Design

The culmination of collaborative innovation, the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) new Southern California Headquarters – Mary D. Nichols Campus establishes one of the most advanced vehicle emissions testing and research facilities in the world, as well as the largest zero net energy (ZNE) structure of its kind across the United States — setting a new standard for sustainable, human-centric design that drives future change and advances the planet towards decarbonization. A beacon of enviro

Affiliated Engineers • 31st August 2022

Ology Bioservices, Advanced Development & Manufacturing Facility

Specializing in pre-clinical and clinical development, formulation optimization, and cGMP manufacturing across five core modalities — biologics, cell therapy, gene therapy, nucleic acids, and vaccines — Ology Bioservices (Ology) collaborates with a robust interdisciplinary network infrastructure to produce a diverse suite of biopharmaceutical products and medical devices and increase consumer accessibility to life-saving therapies. Supporting this mission and expanding its biopharmaceutical foo

Affiliated Engineers • 15th August 2022

Expanding Green Infrastructure in Wisconsin: U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Visits Franklin Electric Manufacturing Facility

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) — along with AEI project team members and representatives from Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) — recently visited a Madison-based manufacturing facility to get a first-hand preview of Franklin Electric’s innovative new switchgear technology used in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Addressing the state’s increased investments in green infrastructure, Baldwin referenced the National Electric Vehicle Initiative (NEVI) program, which provides federal

Affiliated Engineers • 15th August 2022

California Air Resources Board and Gilead Sciences Among ENR California 2022 Best Projects Winners

Highlighting outstanding design throughout the Golden State, ENR California recently announced the winners of its 2022 Best Projects competition, with special recognition for projects demonstrating significant achievements in sustainability and safety. ENR California’s Excellence in Sustainability award honors projects going above and beyond in sustainable design, energy efficiency, and environmental stewardship — from building materials to community impact. The ENR California Excellence in

Affiliated Engineers • 5th August 2022

Three AEI Project Winners Announced in Lab Manager’s 2022 Design Excellence Awards

AEI is thrilled to announce three firm projects were recently honored in Lab Manager’s 2022 Design Excellence Awards competition, including the California Institute of Technology's (Caltech) Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Neuroscience Research Building, the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Southern California Headquarters, and the University of Oregon’s Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. Recognizing and honoring excellence in research laboratory planning, design,

Affiliated Engineers • 3rd August 2022

Celebrating Licensed Professional Engineers Across the Globe

In honor of the seventh annual Professional Engineers (PE) Day, we are celebrating AEI’s talented team of licensed engineers — and those across the globe — whose engineering and design innovation continuously seeks to protect and uphold public health, safety, and welfare. Established in 1907, the professional engineering license signifies an extraordinary commitment to not only advancing science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM) but collaborating to create a better world. Join u

Affiliated Engineers • 2nd August 2022

Jeremy Barrette Discusses HVAC Systems for Labs & Research Facilities in Consulting-Specifying Engineer Webcast

Join AEI Principal Jeremy Barrette — in association with Principal Brandon Fortier from IMEG Corp. — on Thursday, August 11, 2022, for an engaging Consulting-Specifying Engineer (CSE) webcast discussion outlining key HVAC system planning and design considerations for modern labs and research facilities. From air change rates and relative humidity to cross-contamination and energy savings, a range of topics will be covered throughout the discussion. Participants will also learn about applicable

Affiliated Engineers • 21st July 2022

Valleywise Health Foundation’s 2022 Backpack Drive Supports Maricopa County Families

Team members from AEI’s Phoenix office recently volunteered in support of Valleywise Health Foundation’s 2022 Backpack Drive — helping fill and distribute over 200 backpacks to students in anticipation of the upcoming school year. Distributed across various Valleywise Health Family Resource Center locations, the 2022 Backpack Drive raised more than $50,000 for Maricopa County’s most vulnerable families and provided hundreds of pre-filled backpacks to encourage healthy habits and ensure students

Affiliated Engineers • 20th July 2022

MilliporeSigma Celebrates Groundbreaking of First Lateral Flow Membrane Production Facility

MilliporeSigma recently celebrated the groundbreaking of its first lateral flow membrane production facility in the United States. Located in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the new production facility — a project collaboration with Flad Architects and J.H. Findorff & Son, Inc. (Findorff) — supports the manufacturing of MilliporeSigma’s Hi-Flow™ Plus lateral flow membranes used in a variety of diagnostic testing applications, including rapid test kits for COVID-19. Pictured above (left to right): Jim

Affiliated Engineers • 27th June 2022

Principal Matt Koukl Discusses Data Center Trends in Two Consulting-Specifying Engineer MEP Roundtables

AEI Principal and Mission Critical Market Leader Matt Koukl recently participated in two Consulting-Specifying Engineer (CSE) MEP Roundtables highlighting energy efficiency and control system design in data center facilities. In the CSE MEP Roundtable, “Energy efficiency trends, changes in data centers,” Matt and fellow respondents discuss industry shifts toward sustainable design and some of the challenges associated with energy efficiency in data center facilities.

Affiliated Engineers • 23rd June 2022

Celebrating AEI Innovators & Inventors on International Women in Engineering Day 2022

Today we celebrate the amazing work and innovations of talented, inspiring women engineers across the globe as part of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED22). This Women's Engineering Society (WES) initiative seeks to raise awareness regarding industry representation and create a vital platform for showcasing current professionals and encouraging future engineering generations. In honor of the INWED22 theme — Inventors and Innovators — we are highlighting several individuals whose desi

Affiliated Engineers • 26th May 2022

Pivotal Lighting Design’s Lauri Tredinnick Published in IES Research Journal

We are excited to announce Lauri Tredinnick, studio leader of Pivotal Lighting Design, AEI’s in-house architectural design studio, has recently been published in LEUKOS, the official journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES). A co-author collaboration with researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the published article, Lighting System Control Data to Improve Design and Operation: Tunable Lighting System Data from NICU Patient Rooms, provides an in-depth analysis a

Affiliated Engineers • 11th May 2022

Grail - Lab, Office & Warehouse

Dedicated to earlier cancer detection through innovative technologies, California-based healthcare company Grail sought to open a new location in North Carolina’s prominent Research Triangle Park (RTP). This state-of-the-art production and diagnostic testing facility features advanced laboratory space designed to support next-generation DNA sequencing and reagent manufacturing. Built in two phases, the first phase establishes laboratory, high-bay warehouse, and testing production space featurin