CMTA: Building Science Leadership
About CMTA
CMTA was founded in 1968 and is recognized as a national leader in high performance, sustainable design within the engineering industry. Our firm has leveraged our expertise in high performance, energy-efficient design into a nationwide practice that includes consulting engineering, performance contracting and zero energy design, technology solutions, and commissioning services.
CMTA prides itself on its data-driven, performance-based design process. Performance-based design uses benchmarking of our projects’ real-world energy usage as a challenge to our engineers to continuously improve energy performance. CMTA’s first signature performance-based design project was Richardsville Elementary School, the nation’s first operational Zero Energy school. Since then, our Zero Energy projects have led our firm into the national spotlight.
Because we walk the talk, we are true partners vested in sharing our knowledge with our clients. Our corporate headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky is a zero energy building with a perfect ENERGY STAR score. And, our CMTA Energy Solutions corporate office in Louisville is the first in the U.S. to operate as Zero Energy and achieve WELL Gold certification. CMTA strives to create strong relationships with building owners and managers while also focusing on the health and comfort of the people who live, work, and play in spaces we design.
Most International Technology Awarded Firm
NeoCity STEM Academy
Kissimmee, Florida
Florida’s first Zero Energy School
Our Mission
Leverage our expertise and passion to create meaningful experiences and opportunities for the CMTA team and our clients while serving the greater good.
Our Vision
Lead the decarbonization of the built environment using evidence-based Building Science Leadership to create energy-efficient, healthy buildings around the world.
Core Values
– Use Building Science Leadership to create highquality, meaningful projects with proven results
– Hire the best people, mentor, and empower
– Humbly share our knowledge with each other, between all positions and offices
– Be accountable and expect the same of others
– Create opportunities for our people through growth
– Promote and foster a culture of family, teamwork, and friendship
– Provide excellent and responsive service at all times
– Become our client’s trusted partner and advisor
– Be financially successful
– Give back to our communities
– Take time to enjoy success
Office Locations
We’re a legion of companies committed to making the spaces we occupy more sustainable, healthy, and efficient.
A Company
CMTA is part of Legence, a Blackstone portfolio company. Comprised of 14 innovative companies and 5,000+ people, our team of engineers, advisors, and contractors are working together to make the spaces we occupy healthier and more sustainable.
Legence is an Energy Transition Accelerator™ — we improve the performance of buildings, making the spaces that shape our lives healthier and more sustainable, paving the way for this future - faster. We specialize in helping clients decrease operating costs, reduce carbon emissions, and enhance occupant well-being and productivity. With over a century of experience, we have the expertise to implement high-performing projects with unmatched outcomes, serving industry leaders in mission-critical and essential sectors such as data centers, semiconductors, life sciences, healthcare, education, and more. To learn more about Legence and its services, visit www.wearelegence.com
Building Science Leadership
— It’s our approach to design
From new construction to remodels, Building Science Leadership allows us to apply our vast expertise to deliver unprecedented results. It gives us the ability to deliver exceptional value to all of our partners.
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This is a collaborative, immersive process that goes beyond standard systems analyses. We strive to be true partners invested in the success and wellbeing of the occupants of the buildings with a holistic design approach.
Data-Driven Design
Collaborate, innovate, create, and evaluate are the foundational concepts of our performance-based design philosophy. Our success is measured using real data, collected over time and proven in realworld applications.
Design Innovation
We invent products, fill gaps in the industry and are transforming the market with innovative solutions.
Occupant Health and Wellness
We deliver the best value that extends beyond cost to improve human health while exceeding energy savings expectations.
National Energy Goals
We work to achieve sustainable energy independence and are a leader in the development of Zero Energy building designs.
Research
We continuously measure and verify energy usage, investigate and test new technologies, and survey occupants to determine performance outcomes
Lubber Run Community Center Arlington, Virginia Zero Energy, LEED Silver
In addition to design, our leaders serve on technical and standards committees and regularly contribute to the development of the industry guidance and national high performance building standards. In fact, we helped author both of ASHRAE’s advanced energy design guide for K-12 and Small to Medium Office Buildings.
Approach to a Cleaner Future
CMTA’s approach is simple: by lowering the utility bill, we make direct impacts on decreasing carbon emissions and energy usage. Our strategic focus on energy efficiency and grid harmonization results in a drastic reduction of the cost of going zero energy / zero carbon.
Global Operational
Zero Carbon Metrics
11M+ SF
Zero Energy / Zero Carbon Facilities Designed / Commissioned
175 kW
Photovoltaics Designed / Installed / Commissioned
6,750+ Miles
Geothermal Piping Designed / Installed / Commissioned
18 MWh
Battery Energy Storage Systems Designed / Installed / Commissioned
7,000+
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Designed / Installed
15M Gallons
Thermal Energy Storage Systems Designed / Installed / Commissioned
10M Gallons
Water Harvesting Designed / Installed
500 MW
Onsite Power Generation Designed / Installed / Commissioned
NeoCity STEM Academy First Zero Energy School in Florida, Kissimmee, Florida
Occupant Health + Wellness
CMTA’s buildings are moving beyond energy efficiency and sustainability to lead the industry’s focus on improving occupant health. Our team has a vast understanding of the building performance metrics and design strategies that improve the built environment for occupant comfort and wellness. This knowledge allows us to be successful in incorporating strategies that improve the health and wellbeing of the occupant while still maintaining budget and energy efficiency goals.
Our continuous drive for improvement fuels our research into Indoor air quality, lighting, and comfort as markers for occupant wellness. This allows us to incorporate proven strategies into every project we complete. We focus on delivering the best value for the building owner and the occupants, which goes beyond costs, and improves human health while maintaining budget and energy-efficiency goals.
Walking the Talk
We take great pride in being thought leaders, paving the way for others to follow. We accept this challenge with enthusiasm and responsibility. CMTA is a firm that has built its reputation on research and data-driven design.
We designed our own corporate office to achieve WELL Gold and operate Zero Energy. In 2020, the CMTA Energy Solutions Corporate Office became the first WELL Gold Certified, Zero Energy Building in the country.
We spend about 85% of our lives in buildings, and it is essential that architects and engineers understand how the built environment affects the health and wellness of its occupants.
Performance Contracting
Most firms focus on individual energy conservation measures. CMTA’s Energy Solutions Division takes the same holistic approach to performance contracting as we do to our design.
Created in 2012, CMTA’s Energy Solutions division applies our highperformance energy reduction solutions to the Performance Contracting and Guaranteed Energy Savings Market.
Most performance contracting firms focus on individual energy conservation measures. CMTA takes the same holistic approach to performance contracting as we do to our design. We benchmark a building’s existing energy consumption and compare it to our database of real energy performance. This comparison allows us to fully understand the building’s potential. Based on this understanding, we target a new energy usage rate and design strategies to meet the goal.
In this industry, it is standard to use an energy model as the basis of the guarantee. CMTA’s approach sets us apart because we guarantee the energy savings based on the actual utility meter readings.
Every project that CMTA has completed to date has not only met the guarantee using this model, but exceeded it in every case.
CMTA Energy Solutions Office
The First WELL Certified and Zero Energy Building in the United States Louisville, Kentucky
DC Public Schools, Banneker Academic High School Washington, DC
K-12 Education
Promoting Student Success + Wellness
CMTA has been engineering K-12 facilities for more than 50 years and we understand how buildings affect student performance, health, and wellness. By helping to create resilient learning environments through improved indoor air quality, temperature, natural daylighting, and reducing energy consumption we make a real difference in student, staff and community success. We create energy efficient projects that promote wellness and still reduce operating costs. Our portfolio includes the best performing elementary, middle and high schools in the United States.
In addition to design, our leaders serve on technical and standards committees and regularly contribute to the development of the industry guidance and national high performance building standards. In fact, we helped author ASHRAE’s “Advanced Energy Design Guide for K-12 School Buildings – Achieving Zero Energy.” Three out of six schools featured in the guide were designed by CMTA.
200M Square Feet $35B+ Construction Value
Florida Polytechnic University, Innovation Science & Technology (IST) Building Lakeland, Florida
Higher Education Designing for Future Leaders
We partner with colleges and universities to create engaging, flexible, and resilient learning and living environments, drawing on decades of data and the most current research to shape experiences that empower all students and support educators. The CMTA team works closely with institutions of higher education across the country to deliver meaningful projects ranging from wellness centers, classrooms, research, and residence facilities to comprehensive infrastructure improvements and sustainability master plans.
As campuses across the country focus on decarbonization and sustainability, CMTA is creating holistic climate action plans for our higher education clients focused on achievable targets and practical solutions that lead to real results.
180M Square Feet $25B+ Construction Value
Indiana University Health, Bloomington Regional Academic Health Center
Bloomington, Indiana
Healthcare
Improving the Healing Environment
Effective engineering services in healthcare is a passion of ours, and it shows in the care and attention to detail we put into every project. Whether it’s a small clinic or large hospital, specialized expertise in healthcare must be a top priority across the design team. The mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems are critical elements to these buildings. We understand that special attention must be given to the design regarding infection control, equipment functionality, illumination levels, indoor air quality, operational costs, ROI, and comfort levels for patients, visitors, and staff.
Energy usage in healthcare is amongst the highest for any building type. Therefore, CMTA accepts the challenge to reduce energy use and cost and embraces the national effort to design healthcare facilities that reach the 100 EUI (kBtu/sf) threshold.
450M Square Feet $67B+ Construction Value
Workplace
Flexible Designs for Building Owners
When designing systems for office and commercial buildings, we place emphasis on the balance between comfort and budget. The needs of these spaces are often changing based on the building’s lease cycle, so the design needs to be flexible and accommodating to change.
CMTA’s industrial experience includes a wide variety of clean room and controlled environments — many that serve pharmaceutical, research, manufacturing, and micro-electronics industries. This has included campus-wide infrastructure upgrades, energy conservation upgrades, new construction, and renovation projects. As design consultants who focus on sustainability and workplace wellness, we offer strategies to improve employee performance while reducing building operating costs.
150M Square Feet $30B+ Construction Value
NordLB Office New York, New York
Local Government Supporting Community Needs
We enjoy the opportunity to help local governmental entities provide modern, innovative, and inviting facilities for their employees and communities. With an array of daily operations and special events hosted at these facilities, the mechanical heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems must be adaptable to include the various occupancy loads and climates.
We’ve designed hundreds of government and community facilities nationwide with a thoughtful and conscious design process. As a result, we are acutely aware of the unforeseen intricacies and design of older systems and how to bring them back to life without significant impact on the building.
Ultimately, these buildings must be designed cost-effectively with efficient mechanical and electrical systems and equipment to maximize taxpayers’ dollars.
100M Square Feet $25B+ Construction Value
Rough Rider Event Center Watford City, North Dakota
Federal Complex Design Understanding
CMTA is led and staffed by engineers who have built their careers on complex building system design in many mission-critical facilities worldwide. From Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to Yokota Air Base in Japan, our project history has demonstrated success with all federal government building types for new projects, additions, renovations, repairs, and upgrades.
We understand the federal government emphasizes resilient design, security, energy reduction, and a reduced dependency on the utility grid – all areas where CMTA excels. CMTA partners across the country with large and small A/E firms bringing a robust portfolio of high-performance design that has proven to be a winning differentiator.
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US Army National Guard KY, Boone Aviation Support Facility Frankfort, Kentucky
Aviation & Aerospace
#1 Aviation Geothermal Design Firm
We’ve completed airport/aviation design for clients around the nation using a holistic approach to address maintenance, reliability, and energy efficiency. We understand the importance of designing a space that supports state-of-the-art equipment and technology while focusing on safety and security. Whether designing a new terminal, a lounge renovation, hangar upgrades, or a flight operations facility, strategic collaboration among the design teams, owner, facilities staff, and code officials is key to project success. Due to the intricacies of these spaces, we encourage input from the owner and work directly with equipment suppliers to design systems specific to the owner’s needs.
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Construction Value
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hangar
Lakeland International Airport, Florida
California
Broadcast Media
Connecting Ideas Through Design
When it comes to broadcast and media spaces, we understand the importance of designing a space that supports cutting-edge equipment and technology while ensuring reliability and efficiency.
Broadcast facilities require precise environmental conditions to ensure both equipment functionality and broadcast quality. MEP systems must provide stable temperature and humidity levels, which are critical for the optimal performance of sensitive equipment. Implementing redundant power systems ensures uninterrupted operations, thereby enhancing safety and reliability. The incorporation of energy-efficient cooling solutions aligns with sustainability objectives while maintaining the necessary operating conditions for broadcast equipment.
Data Centers Delivering Resilient Mission Critical Facilities
Data Centers represent some of the most complex and energy-intensive building environments on the planet. As technology continues to evolve, these types of facilities are becoming increasingly dynamic, and CMTA is at the forefront of driving innovations to meet these complex challenges. With extensive expertise in data center design, delivering projects for advanced technology companies like Intel, SpaceX, and RedHat, we specialize in providing unparalleled data-driven insights, design solutions, and advanced pre-fabrication techniques for these facilities.
Our integrated trade-partner construction approach ensures precision and efficiency at every stage, expediting delivery schedules and minimizing risks associated with cost, downtime, and safety. From ground-up enterprise and colocation facilities to retrofit and modernization upgrades, our team focuses on ensuring maximum resiliency, efficiency, flexibility and scalability for our clients.
10M Square Feet 200+ Projects Completed
