Sustainability consulting that feels like a conversation.
We care about our working relationships, and use deep listening to co-create with care and intention. We bridge the gap between complex engineering and human-centric design to create spaces that nourish and buildings that perform.
Provide holistic design services that bring detailed technical analysis into partnership with beautiful design.
Always strive for highly efficient resource use, ambitious sustainability goals, and healthy material selection.
Use natural wisdom whenever possible, and to always consider the impact on local ecosystems and the global environment.
Co-create buildings that nourish and connect us to our community instead of disconnecting us into sterility.
Use careful, data-driven analysis to deliver measurable energy savings and proven performance results that benefit both our clients and the planet.
Our Mission
What is ICR?
Interconnected: We see buildings as a web of inter-connectivity. The envelope impacts the HVAC size. The PV system affects the rainwater collection. Building decisions shape the lives of people inside and the communities outside. Nothing exists in isolation and we try to consider every connection through all our decisions, maximizing efficiency through a synergy of parts.
Closed-Loop: Nature has no waste. Waste from one process becomes input for another. Resources shouldn't be single-use. Water can be captured, treated, and reused. Energy that would be rejected can be recovered. We look for opportunities to close loops and eliminate waste at every scale.
Regenerative: Buildings shouldn't just do less harm—they should actively contribute. Regenerative design means creating spaces that improve occupant health, support local ecosystems, generate more energy than they consume, and leave things better than we found them.
These aren't abstract ideals. They're practical frameworks that guide our energy modeling, system design, and sustainability consulting. We started ICR Engineering because we believe high-performance buildings shouldn't be a luxury—they should be the standard. And we've seen that the best outcomes happen when you combine deep technical expertise with a genuine commitment to environmental and social impact.
20+ years
COMBINED EXPERIENCE
150+
PROJECTS COMPLETED
30-60%
AVERAGE ENERGY SAVINGS
Engage as early as possible in design to maximize opportunities and fully leverage data and innovation. Exceptional high-performance design occurs when all the options are still on the table. We become your technical partner from concept design.
Listen carefully and collaborate with intention so the valuable time and attention we all spend at work can result in connection, innovation, and a feeling of community.
Establish early goals to drive the project to success through complications and budget constraints. This is one of the most important factors to delivering on energy and sustainability goals.
Use energy modeling up front to test design options for biggest impact and quickest payback, find first cost and operational savings, and optimize comfort. The model can then also be used for incentive applications, building standards, and code compliance.
Layer holistic elements materials for durability and health, air quality for optimal occupant experience, natural elements and resource reuse and optimization.
Analyze with comprehensive integration consider all the elements in all the systems, how they relate to each other, checking for optimization and efficiency, and closing the loops for waste reduction and synergy at every turn.
