We support our clients by engineering creative solutions that make their bold visions work.
Altieri designs prioritize redundancy, reliability, monitoring and maintainability, and simple operation for high level control and optimal performance. Spaces are visually unimpaired by building system components, acoustically unnoticed, and engineered for visitor comfort. Our decades-long experience successfully meeting high profile design challenges continues to set the pace for the industry.
“We value Altieri’s strong cross-disciplinary competence that allows their engineers to cover multiple perspectives when needed. There is a nimbleness to their design thinking and an ability to foresee long-range implications and consequences of design directions that have been invaluable to us in addressing very complex design problems and implementing better energy strategies.”
Chris Couse, OAA, FRAIC, Founding Principal, KPMB Architects, Canada
Mechanical
Seamless integration. We design the best solutions for each project, systems that “disappear” in finished spaces without compromising system performance. We have expertise in all aspects of mechanical design including:
- Building Automation and Energy Management Systems
- Standards for Indoor Environmental Conditions
- Central Heating and Cooling Plant Infrastructure
- Campus Energy Distribution
- Hot Water, Chilled Water, Steam, Condenser Water and Glycol Distribution System
- Variable Refrigerant Flow Systems
- Active Chilled Beam Systems and Radiant Cooling Panels
- High Performance Energy Recovery
- Specialty systems including Snow Melt, Geothermal Heat Pumps (open- and closed- loop), Natural Ventilation, Displacement Ventilation, Smoke Control Systems, Radiant Heating, Stair Pressurization
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis
Electrical
With Altieri, you can expect electrical systems tailored to meet the diverse needs of your project; you can rely on us to power your environment with creativity, foresight, precision, and reliability. Our dedicated team provides cutting-edge electrical designs that support the occupancy needs of a building while promoting energy efficient operations. Our services include:
- Power Distribution
- Emergency and Standby Power Generation
- Architectural Lighting
- Lighting Control Systems
- Fire Alarm
- Lightning Protection
- Photovoltaic Studies and Analysis
- Arc Flash studies
- Short Circuit studies
- Overcurrent Protection Coordination studies
Plumbing
Piping systems are designed and coordinated to meet program requirements, avoid risks, and for maintenance accessibility. Our plumbing engineers design to applicable and current code standards (national, state, and local) and have considerable expertise in:
- Potable and Non-Potable Water Systems
- Sanitary, Waste, Vent and Storm Systems
- Natural Gas Building Systems
- Compressed Air Systems
- Acid Waste and Vent Systems
- Pumping Systems Design (Domestic Booster, Gas, Circulation)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis
Fire Protection
Our fire protection engineers are highly skilled at designing innovative, minimally intrusive, and cost-effective solutions for complex spaces and those requiring special protection requirements. Our expertise enables us to provide creative solutions, often coordinating multiple systems into one program. We design to applicable and current code standards (national, state, and local) and provide:
- Building Fire Pump, Standpipe and Sprinkler Systems Design
- Clean Agent Systems
- Special Suppression Systems
Low Voltage
Information Technology Systems
Our ITS designs focus on the importance of converged networks in today’s buildings, ultimately ensuring savings of space, energy, and money. We design technology systems with mission critical pathways in mind, understanding that keeping systems operational is of the utmost importance to our clients. Our technology design services include:
- Data Center Collection spaces
- Wireless Heat Mapping and Verification Reporting
- Structured Cabling Systems
- Local and Wide Area Network Designs
- Wireless Network Planning and Designs
- Mission Critical Server Infrastructure
- Telecommunication Room spaces
Audio Visual Systems
We design state-of-the-art cable, pathway, and equipment systems to support individual programs in classrooms, conference/meeting rooms, multipurpose spaces, lobbies, auditoriums, fitness centers and canteen areas, event spaces, production control rooms, post-editing spaces, AV control booths, digital displays, projectors, signage and artwork, live interactive projection, localized sound, and outdoor entertainment projection mapping and blending.
- Facility Space Planning
- Digital Signage
- Direct View LED Walls
- Networked AV Control Systems
- Hybrid and In Person Video Conferencing Systems
- Projection Mapping and Blending
Security
Altieri security services include design of infrastructure including equipment rooms, racks, pathways, cable systems, and specification of equipment such as IP security cameras, access control and intrusion detection systems. We coordinate building security systems to interface with other equipment including vertical transportation systems, fire alarm, audio visual, highlighting the importance of converged systems in today’s buildings.
Master Planning and Studies
With our considerable expertise in the assessment and analysis of existing conditions, we are here to help prepare for the future. Our planning and feasibility studies provide guidance to clients and owners as they consider different approaches that support project goals and ensure long-term viability of their facilities. We identify and recommend multiple tiers of strategies including:
- Code and Life Safety
- Enhancement of Function and Operation
- Comprehensive Wish List
Altieri’s experience preparing comprehensive existing conditions assessments of mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems is widely valued and often results in repeat studies, as highlighted by our return to The Getty Center to perform the Central Plant Engineering Study over 20 years after completing our original design work for the institution.
Energy Modeling
Energy modeling is key to helping design teams develop strategies that help buildings optimize system performance. As energy codes increasingly push buildings to achieve greater efficiency, Altieri’s energy models provide important information to architects and owners about systems design and control options that promote energy efficient operations including building orientation, water usage reduction, renewable energy infrastructure strategies, and potential system and building deficiencies. Using software including eQuest, Trance Trace, Energy Plus, IES, and Cove.tool, we provide:
- Simple Box energy analysis
- Analysis for LEED Integrative Process, Minimum Energy Performance, Optimize Energy Performance, and Renewable Energy Product credits
- SCA NYC Green Schools Guideline submissions
- Utility incentive program submissions
- Energy Code Compliance Analysis
- Energy Cost Budget Analysis
“No one else had/has ever done what we did with the glass show. Supporting the client’s vision included designing an environment-with furnaces reaching 2000°-that was temperate, quiet, and personalized.”
Michael A. Freliech, PE, Principal/Boston Office Leader
