Eta Engineers provides green building and sustainable designs of building HVAC, electrical, and plumbing systems. Our services begin during the early stages of preliminary design, often working closely with the owner, architect, and building users to initiate a coordinated design process, that is the basis of all green buildings. Eta’s cooperative design approach is coupled with a focus on computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), HVAC system energy efficiency, building system commissioning, and - through energy metering - meeting the upcoming upheaval of electric utility deregulation. This comprehensive perspective, a perspective that recognizes the competitive advantage one can seize by recognizing the life cycle cost of building design decisions, is what differentiates Eta from the rest of the field. We are not your usual "slam and cram" HVAC body shop.

There are no off-the-shelf "green" HVAC systems that can be plugged into a building and give it the "green" label. Green building is not a static, singular condition; sustainable building is a state that building owners, designers, and occupants must constantly work toward.

In Eta’s opinion, green building design simply means good engineering design, making the most of the limited capital available to meet design goals. In Eta’s opinion "capital" is not limited to the common definition used in economics textbooks ("money & materials"). Eta adheres to the more expansive concept of "natural capital," the concept which recognizes that "capital" includes all natural resources and ecosystems that sustain life. (And let’s face it: with no life, there is no market economy.)

There is no need to argue over specific methods used to quantify global warming, or to dwell on political tastes, or adhere to rigid ideological stances. The direction is clear: World population is growing and (natural) capital is becoming increasingly scarce. Time has come to make more efficient use of that capital. Time has come to design better, more efficiently. That is Eta’s mission.