Firm Earns 18 Awards in Various Project Categories Arlington, VA (April 17, 2024) – GHT Limited (GHT), a leading DC metro area mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering consulting firm, received 18 awards across numerous categories at the 2024 Washington Business Congress (WBC) Craftsmanship Awards. As the most-awarded project in DMV commercial real estate history, […]
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Arlington, VA (February 29, 2024) – GHT Limited (GHT), a leading DC metro area mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering firm, announces that Principal James Yang received the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) DC Chapter’s Plumbing Engineer of the Year Award at their Winter Social and Awards Ceremony on February 17, 2024. As described […]
By Laura Morder, PE, LEED Green Associate Local jurisdictions, like the District of Columbia (DC) and Montgomery County, Maryland, require building energy benchmarking requirements as a part of their energy performance programs. If you’re a building owner or operator in DC and are feeling overwhelmed in the face of these new requirements, GHT has prepared the […]
On April 19, 2022, the Montgomery County Council unanimously passed its Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) legislation, which will help the County meet its climate goals. Montgomery County is one of the first municipalities to pass BEPS legislation, and like its neighbor DC, the focus is on energy-efficiency improvements for existing buildings and expands on […]
Firm Earns Excellence in Sustainability Award of Merit Arlington, VA (October 29, 2021) – GHT Limited (GHT), a leading DC metro area mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering consulting firm, received the Excellence in Sustainability Award of Merit for the Wheaton Revitalization Project as part of the ENR Mid-Atlantic Regional Best Projects Awards. This award […]
Arlington, VA (September 21, 2021) – GHT Limited (GHT), a leading DC metro area mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering consulting firm, received multiple awards at the NAIOP DC|MD 19th Annual Awards of Excellence on September 13, 2021. GHT is excited to share that five projects; four in Washington, DC, and one in Maryland, received […]
GHT Associate wins USGBC-NCR’s Volunteer Leadership Award Arlington, VA (July 22, 2021) – GHT Limited (GHT), a leading DC metro area mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering firm, announces that Associate Bailey Estes, EIT, LEED Green Associate received the U.S. Green Building Council-National Capital Region’s (USGBC-NCR) Volunteer Leadership Award – Member of the Year […]
Important Sustainability Trends in the Built Environment Principal Brad McNiff recently attended a series of educational sessions focused on the betterment of building design at Greenbuild 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s theme was A New Living Standard and there was a renewed focus on health & well-being, serving underrepresented communities, and the impacts of materials on […]
USGBC has released the drafts for the LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C rating systems. The v4.1 rating system evolves v4 to enable greater implementation and increased focus on performance. LEED v4 was released in 2013 but has not seen much adoption in the market; fewer than 800 commercial projects have certified under the rating system. […]