A building that performs is energy efficient and environmentally responsible—throughout varying seasons and extreme temperatures.
A Building Envelope refers to the barrier between the indoors and outdoors of a building. It is comprised of everything that makes up the shell of a building, and the integrity of that envelope impacts the energy consumption, comfort, and performance of a building.
At CR-BPS, our robust building science expertise is how we can guarantee performance outcomes to our customers, partners, contractors, developers, local governments, and academic partners. By focusing on all aspects a building’s system for long-term performance, our process connects the assessments we take to the solutions we implement.
Partnership with CR-BPS prevents costly mistakes and lost time. The end result is a more durable, sustainable and environmentally friendly project.
Our ongoing quality assurance process, BECx, ensures that our clients’ requirements have been successfully achieved at the completion of each project. We implement custom BECx in the predesign phase of each project and continue through occupancy and beyond.
Our forensics and field testing services give us the ability to investigate, diagnose, solve, and prevent building performance issues.
Our forensics and diagnostics services include:
To help achieve the most energy efficient, low carbon and durable building possible, our EA+C services provide a variety of operational and embodied energy use models, building enclosure inspections, and energy rating deliverables during both design and construction.
CR-BPS is certified in the following specialties:
| Type | Commercial Institutional | Residential |
|---|---|---|
| RESNET HERS Rater | X | X |
| ENERGY STAR Rater | X | X |
| ENERGY STAR Partner | X | X |
| DOE NZERH Partner | X | X |
| Phius Rater | X | X |
| Phius Verifier | X | X |
| ENERGY STAR Multifamily Rater | X | X |
| Passive House Consulting | X | X |
| LCA (Life Cycle Assessments) | X | X |
At CR-BPS, we provides a wide variety of sustainability, resiliency/adaptation, wellness, or carbon reduction rating system services. We also counsel clients in certification requirements for many of the common ratings systems such as:
We diagnose, analyze, test, and verify the cause of as-built problems and/or potential design problems as early in the development of the project as possible to help our clients save money and time.
CR-BPS is accredited through the University of Wisconsin College of Engineering as a Building Enclosure Commissioning Process Provider and accredited in Commissioning Authority + Building Enclosure with the designation of BECxP and CxA+BE