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Multi-Family Residential and Mixed-Use Projects

Various Architects, Contractors, and Developers
Ecotope has provided a wide range of design services to scores of new and existing multi-family residential projects from three to three hundred units in scope, across the Northwest region. These services have included the full range of architectural and mechanical system design services. In addition to consulting on energy efficient lighting design, indoor air quality and heat recovery ventilation.
Ecotope can also provide construction oversight and develop commissioning specifications for building operation.

Our clients have included architects, contractors, sub-contractors, developers, utilities, and organizations with an interest in quality multi-family design.

Ecotope has also developed detailed computer simulations of multi-family building performance to evaluate cost-effective construction measures, workable mechanical system designs, heat-loss characteristics of different construction types, and to document energy savings for utility incentive programs.

Crystal Pools: Drawing Courtesy of Weber+Thompson
SHORT PROJECT LIST
Project: Crystal Pools Condominiums
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Weber + Thompson Architects
Description: Mixed use highrise building with 187 residential units and five stories of commercial space.
Scope: Energy conservation consulting and energy code compliance documentation. Mechanical design consulting and third-party design review of design-build mechanical plans.
Project: 1st and Lee Condominiums
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Weber + Thompson Architects
Description: 20 unit condominium building
Scope: Energy conservation consulting and energy code compliance documentation. Mechanical design consulting and outline design specification for design-build contractor.
Project: Northlake
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Driscoll Architects
Description: Three building mixed use complex, with a total of 120 residential units and three retail spaces.
Scope: Energy conservation consulting and energy code compliance documentation.
Project: Banner Building
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Weinstein Copeland Architects
Description: Mixed use five-story building with 30 residential units.
Scope: Energy conservation consulting and energy code compliance documentation. Development of innovative insulation strategies to reduce thermal bridging in PT-slab floors.
Project: Ballinger Pointe
Location: Mountlake Terrace, WA
Architect: Roger Newell
Description: Lowrise suburban multifamily development.
Scope: Design and documentation of innovative heating system using heater rated gas fireplaces as primary heat source in small apartments with electric resistance as back-up heat in bedrooms. Energy conservation consulting and energy code compliance documentation.