ICR Engineering provides consulting for the built environment and all of the elements in and around the building project.

I can provide individual services tailored to a specific need or we look more holistically at your project to guide the overall design, and consider all the factors that affect construction, operation, and occupation and use within the project.

Our Mission

To provide holistic design services that consider efficient resource use, sustainability, compassionate community integration, and careful material selection. To use natural wisdom whenever possible, and to always consider the impact on the environment. To help make spaces that nourish, and connect us to our space, not isolate us.

Our Approach

We try to engage with a project as early as possible so that all options are still possible for analysis. Establishing goals early is essential to maximize efficiency, and to drive the project through complications and budget constraints without compromising these goals. We use various software and engineering analysis to provide accurate data, scaled to give a clear sense of impact and value, digging in with granularity where needed. This was, design decisions can be made with a very real understanding of comfort, energy, environmental, and economic impact. Detailed data empowers us to truly weigh the cost and benefits of our options.

What Does ICR Stand For?

I.C.R. represents three of the core principles of our design approach that make a consultation comprehensive and holistic:

Interconnected: - All building elements need to be considered for how they connect to other parts of the broader system, and should be integrated with all other impacts in mind. For example, if we wish to use the roof for rainwater collection, all materials on that roof must be certified for potable water, even the solar panels.

Closed-Loop: - The closed-loop design approach looks to produce no waste in any system, looking to tie back in all resource movement, and avoid linear processes that go out of the system. For example, if we have to exhaust pollutants from an air stream that has been conditioned, we should try to recover the heat from that air-stream as much a possible and put it back into the system.

Regenerative: - This design approach looks to not just cause minimal impact with our design decisions, but to leave all impacted spaces and inhabitants better off after our actions. We should try to improve the ecosystems we build in, and create nourishing spaces that optimize performance and encourage community.

About Me

Credentials

  • Professional Engineer (PE) State of Oregon

  • WELL Accredited Professional (AP)

  • Living Future Accredited Professional (LFA)

  • LEED Green Associate

  • Permaculture Design Certification

Work Experience

  • ICR Engineering Consulting, Energy Engineer and Sustainability Consultant

    • Bright Power, New York, NY - 2021 to present

      • Building performance specialist and technical resource for the energy department.

      • Extensive use of eQUEST simulation software for project design support and program application

      • Internal and external tool development and implementation

      • Internal training development and educational presentations

      • Multiple research projects in building performance and occupant health.

    • CEA Engineering, Bend, OR - Feb 2024 to present

      • Holistic energy and comfort simulation for single-family residential projects

      • Mechanical design support for right-sizing of systems, and performance and controls testing

      • High-level PV system design for net-zero energy

      • Energy Trust of Oregon Incentive estimation and application support

      • Rainwater potential analysis

  • PAE, Portland, OR, Mechanical Engineer E2, 2018 - 2021

    • Building performance specialist, mechanical designer, healthy buildings committee lead, JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Committee founder.

    • Extensive energy simulation and consultation for around 50 projects of all types and sizes using IESVE and eQUEST modeling software.

  • Mazzetti, Portland, OR, Mechanical Designer, 2017-2018

    • Mechanical designer, sustainability core-team consultant and developer, lead Portland energy modeler, Portland Sustainability Champion.

    • Extensive use of IESVE modeling software for analysis of around 20 different projects of all building types.

  • Earth Advantage, Portland, OR, Technical Field Consultant, 2016 - 2017

    • Residential performance testing for envelope tightness, HVAC optimization, ventilation, and advanced construction techniques,

    • Supported the local building standard program development

  • Clearesult, Portland, OR, Energy Engineer E1, 2015

    • Commercial building engineering team, reviewing building plans and energy models to verify energy savings.

    • Supported early design consulting with clients and assisted with utility incentive program development.

    • Extensive use of eQUEST modeling software.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Renewable Energy Engineering - Oregon Institute of Technology

    • Magna Cum Laude Honors, 2014

Skills/Software

  • IESVE, eQUEST, Revit, AutoCAD, Trane Trace, Adobe Design Suite, Microsoft Office inc. Excel VBA, Sketchup.

  • Biomimicry, Biophilia, Graywater and Rainwater Systems, Composting Toilets, Solar PV and Solar Thermal Design, Natural Building.