Insights & News

The ASHRAE 170 Committee—focused on ventilation standards in healthcare-- met at the annual ASHRAE winter conference. Several significant changes are coming that will impact engineers, architects, and owners if implemented. The following are some highlights...

Our hypothesis, though controversial for some, is that we frequently over-ventilate spaces. We don’t truly understand ‘why’ the standards prescribe a certain number of air changes. As a result, hospital owners (likely) are wasting energy dollars without improving indoor air quality.

Jesse Avery, P.E., started his Mazzetti career with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford project. Now, eight years later, he is completing this work and turning the page to a new chapter as Associate Principal and Team Leader.

Our thriving Portland office officially moved to its new beautiful, downtown location. 121 SW Salmon St. Suite 1000 Portland, OR 97204

This is one of our favorite weeks in the year--Cal Poly & UW Winter Career Fairs! We have a team of Mazzettites on both campuses, starting today, many of whom are alums!

In order to create these smarter buildings, to service the future, we have to be smarter. We must have these conversations. We must experiment (reasonably) and challenge the status quo.

Suzan Logan, Mazzetti+GBA Principal was named one of Nashville Business Journal’s 2017 Women of Influence (one of only 11 honorees in the company executive category).

Micro-grids "trending," and our fuel cell knowledge base growing: How will this fit in with regulations?

How do we design for the future of healthcare? Thinking deeply about trends and their possible expression, the FGI concluded that the future (with respect to the FGI) was going to look something like this...

ASHRAE issued this Addendum for what is called “Advisory Public Review”. (i.e. ASHRAE will not necessarily take any particular actions in response to comments received.) They are using this opportunity to collect thinking on the basic soundness of the concepts and identify any big gaps they can fill prior to issuing it for actual public comment.

Our Sacramento Office received a major facelift this holiday season! The office, which has been in operations for over 22 years, was admittedly, in need of a new inspired look that reflected our energetic and innovative team. Stay tuned for the Open House invite...