Sidhu Associates, Inc. - Mechanical Engineering

Sidhu Associates, Inc. provides extensive mechanical engineering services, including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, fire protection, and building automation systems (BAS) for various buildings including, training and education facilities, commercial buildings, wastewater treatment facilities, historical buildings and institutional facilities.

Our Mechanical design team begins each project with the owner’s comprehensive design criteria and stringent budget requirements. We consider and evaluate alternate system methods of achieving the established design objectives. During the design development phase of a project, Sidhu Associates performs a feasibility study including energy modeling with the latest energy simulation programs and establishes the best solution for mechanical system based upon economical analysis.

The mechanical team believes that a sustainable mechanical system design successfully addresses all of the following issues:

Comfort

The most tangible product of good (or bad) HVAC design is human comfort. While comfortable conditions (temperature, humidity and noise) are paramount, at SAI we understand that it takes much more than that to achieve excellence.

Health

Less tangible than comfort is health. Recent headlines contain quite a bit about indoor air quality and “sick building syndrome”. SAI has established innovative design approaches to ensure good indoor air quality for all types of systems.

Cost

HVAC design offers the greatest number of ways to achieve the design objectives. For example, most would agree that hot water radiant heat is preferable to a forced air system, but the project budget may dictate that forced air be used in a well-designed and appropriate manner. Similar types of decisions must be made on every project. Also, life cycle costs must be considered and weighed against first costs on behalf of the Owner.

Energy Conservation

SAI believes one of the most important aspects of mechanical design is to balance the initial construction cost against annual energy operating and maintenance costs for the Owner. To achieve the goals we challenge our mechanical engineers to see innovative equipment and system solutions, such as high efficiency geo-thermal units, absorption chillers utilizing reusable energy, high efficiency chillers, variable air volume AHU’s, state-of-the art direct digital control BAS and water conservation plumbing fixtures.