ASE produces mechanical design in-house — load calculations, system selection, Revit models, and construction documents held to ASHRAE 90.1, ASHRAE 62.1, and current mechanical, plumbing, and energy codes. What makes it useful is where it sits. The engineering is done by people who will be on the job when the equipment is rigged, and who will hear about it from the service technician five years later.
Block and room-by-room loads, ventilation and exhaust analysis, equipment selection and scheduling, and system comparisons evaluated over a 20-year life cycle rather than on first cost alone.
Mechanical models coordinated against structure, electrical, and the other trades, so routing, access, and service clearance are settled before anything is fabricated.
On renovation work the drawings rarely match the building. We model existing conditions in occupied facilities — the approach that let a hazardous exhaust system be prefabricated and installed inside an operating ISO 5 cleanroom.
Coordinated drawings, schedules, sequences of operation, and controls scope defined in preconstruction. On one campus renovation, construction drawings were completed in four weeks to hold an aggressive schedule.
Studies and options analysis for owners deciding what to do with aging equipment: what can be kept, what is at end of life, what the replacement actually needs to be, and what it will cost to operate.
Problems that surface mid-installation get resolved by the people who did the design, on site, that week — not routed through a consultant's queue. Constructability input runs the other direction just as often.
| Design-assist | You keep your design engineer. ASE joins early to price alternatives, model existing conditions, flag long-lead equipment, and pressure-test constructability while the design can still change. Often the most useful arrangement on a renovation. |
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| Design-build | When a project benefits from a single mechanical partner, ASE takes the design and the construction under one line of responsibility — concept, drawings, permit, installation, TAB, startup, commissioning, and certification support. |
| Problem solving | An existing system that has never worked right, a room that will not hold tolerance, a plant that cannot meet a new production load. Diagnosis, engineering, and the crew to execute the fix come from the same place. |
Our design philosophy is functional, economical, and sustainable systems evaluated over a 20-year life cycle — a chiller paired with a waterside economizer because Colorado's climate pays for it, equipment placed where a technician can actually service it, and sequences written to be understood by the people who will operate the building.
A consulting engineer's drawing gets built by someone else and maintained by someone else again. Ours gets built by our own crews and, on most of these buildings, maintained by our own technicians for the next decade. That closes a loop most mechanical designs never close — and it is the reason ASE's designs account for how equipment fouls, ages, and gets serviced.
See how it shows up in the work: an ISO 7 cleanroom delivered design-build, a renovation inside an operating ISO 5, or a process cooling plant installed with no lab downtime.
Service call, bid invitation, or a system you need designed and built — start with the people who will actually do the work.