We specialize in identifying impactful applications for intelligent buildings across a variety of sectors, including healthcare, education, aviation, commercial spaces, and residential areas. Our strategic planning process is designed to future-proof your investment by focusing on both short-term and long-term goals.  We leverage data analytics to enhance operational efficiency and use smart technology to improve the well-being and lived experience of building occupants.  Our comprehensive approach is dedicated to providing you the most value out of your investment.

From initial concept to contract finalization, our team integrates data-driven solutions into traditional building systems, enhancing them with intelligent building technologies. We translate identified intelligent building applications into detailed design drawings and specifications for master systems integration and the digital enablement of other contractor services.  Our comprehensive approach effectively administers the contract, coordinates with various stakeholders, and facilitates a smooth transition from design to full operation,  facilitating effective communication and project tracking.

Our team conducts in-depth site assessments that serve as the cornerstone for your digital transformation journey. These evaluations are designed to offer actionable insights that effectively align your project with your specific digitization strategy.  Our comprehensive feasibility reports assess the viability of implementing intelligent building technologies and data-driven solutions in your project.  This approach provides you with all the information you need to make informed decisions, setting the stage for successful project execution.

We assist in crafting uniform standards and policies that span your entire portfolio of building projects. These guidelines are designed to enable a cohesive and high-quality approach to digital transformation.  By focusing on long-term sustainability and operational efficiency, our standards and policies not only reduce risks but also increase the return on investment.  This comprehensive framework serves as a blueprint for all your projects, bringing each of them into alignment with your overarching digitization strategy and goals.

Our team specializes in the design and provision of digital twins—dynamic, virtual replicas of your building. Utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM) and real-time data, these digital twins serve as invaluable tools for both construction and operational phases.  They enable advanced simulations, predictive analytics, and real-time monitoring, offering a holistic view of your building’s performance.  This not only optimizes energy usage but also reduces operational costs and proactively aims your building operations at peak efficiency.

Whether it’s a partial or full chiller or boiler plant upgrade or replacement, a focused plume abatement, steam-to-electric conversion, or implementing forward-looking technologies such as central heat pumps, ice storage, CHP, or microgrids, we bring the full complement of JB&B project experience gleaned from new plant designs and hundreds of existing plant upgrades to match projects to occupancy needs, energy/carbon/market trends, and functional goals into an optimized solution.

Distribution system upgrades can be an opportunity rather than a challenge and don’t have to be like-for-like, determined by existing building systems. Options such as chilled beams, variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems, DOAS, and creative induction system conversions meet immediate functional needs while bringing buildings up to present-day standards and future-proofing them for flexible use and occupancy, often increasing rentable area and improving tenant comfort and productivity.

Many building and market drivers trigger the need to replace, upgrade or reconfigure electric service infrastructure and/or standby generation and UPS systems.  JB&B Infrastructure’s electrical engineers are quick to respond and have the knowledge base to accurately assess situations as well as the expertise to flexibly and creatively propose options for resolving service/distribution, generator, or UPS upgrade or replacement needs.

Building renovations, system failures or repositioning can trigger plumbing system replacement/upgrades.  JB&B Infrastructure’s design approach evaluates best-suited solutions, taking into account existing system design as well as desired upgraded conditions.  Our designs draw on experience garnered from years of new and renovation projects, marked by innovative approaches to water use and recycling, and providing energy and resource-efficient systems to meet building code and health standards while considering sustainability and occupancy needs.

JB&B Infrastructure’s engineers evaluate optimal solutions for existing system design as well as desired upgraded conditions for occupant notification, fire detection and fire suppression methods specific to building and occupancy type.  When building renovations or repositionings trigger fire protection system replacement, upgrades or extensions, our fire protection solutions deliver a holistic fire protection engineering design strategy to achieve overall life safety project goals.

JB&B Environmental will partner with clients to monitor water systems throughout their facilities, including HVAC water systems critical to the operating environment of the building space; wastewater systems including permit assistance; and domestic water systems for human consumption, personal hygiene, decorative and recreational use.  Using innovative techniques such as repurposing water use, we will help solve facilities’ unique water challenges.

Recent legislation regarding water safety, specifically for the control of Legionella, has led to more stringent testing, monitoring and documentation of water systems in certain geographic markets. New York City and State have enacted these regulations to ensure proper maintenance of these systems.  JB&B Environmental is highly experienced in helping clients develop plans and procedures to maintain their systems and meet these regulations as well as to properly document them.  This experience will be invaluable as other markets continue to enact similar protocols, standards and regulations.

In order to maintain the highest air quality in a building space, it is important to understand the expected performance of your system and match that performance with current best practices.  Our team, by testing key operating parameters, along with an in-depth inspection of the space, will provide path-forward recommendations for each system, whether it is for online IAQ monitoring programs with remote access and reporting; recommendations on remediating IAQ problems; or specification of air filtration, purifying and sanitizing equipment or innovative technologies (e.g., bipolar ionization, UV, dry hydrogen, peroxide, triethylene glycol, etc.).

Many state and local governments continue to institute new environmental regulations to provide a safe environment to live, work and play in.  Our focus is to help our clients as these new requirements are implemented.  Mandates such as chemical storage and annual Right-to-Know reporting, domestic water tank inspections, discharge permits, and fuel oil testing are a few of the valuable services that will help clients properly maintain their systems and keep their facility safe, compliant and operating efficiently.

The design of our heating, ventilation and cooling systems taps into the synergy between our extensive experience and the innovative approaches by which we consistently push the envelope of traditional design.  This positions us to provide tailored systems that meet each client’s unique needs, encompassing everything from central utility plant equipment to local terminal devices, including central refrigeration and heating plants, cogeneration systems, advanced heat recovery and thermal storage, low-carbon design, enhanced indoor air quality, direct outdoor air systems (DOAS), critical systems and much more.

JB&B’s electrical design approach focuses on utilizing the latest technologies, systems and products to serve our clients’ needs efficiently and reliably, from the electrical service POE to the end use device.  Through a proactive approach with the client, we work to determine their unique needs for resiliency and expectations for data from their electrical systems.  We use these inputs to tailor our designs to each specific project by incorporating key elements such as emergency power systems, uninterruptible power systems and power monitoring systems as needed to fit the project requirements.

The design of our plumbing systems draws on experience gleaned from a wide variety of projects and is marked by innovative approaches to conserve energy and natural resources by reducing water use and recycling wastewater, providing energy-efficient systems to meet individual client needs.  Our design experience encompasses a full array of systems from domestic water, sanitary/vent and natural gas to lab gases, medical and bulk gases.

In designing our fire protection systems, we hold safety and resiliency as top priorities.  Utilizing wet fire suppression systems as well as dry and special hazard fire protection systems, we provide the optimal solution for each client and building type.  Our engineering services include, among others, wet/dry/preaction, foam, aerosol and clean agent.

JB&B’s design approach evaluates best-suited solutions for occupant notification, fire detection and fire suppression methods for various buildings and occupancy types.  This provides a holistic building fire protection engineering design strategy that encompasses a building’s fire alarm system, fire suppression systems, smoke control systems, first responder systems, mass notification systems, and other building components to meet project requirements, regulatory requirements, and achieve overall life safety project goals.

Our dedicated BMS design group supports the MEP trades to implement a functional and operational building.  With extensive experience in commercial, laboratory, healthcare, and residential projects, we provide design and support for BMS upgrade projects in addition to our role as key team members for traditional core and shell, renovation, and fit-out projects.  Our wide-range of experience allows us to help clients evaluate emerging technologies such as intelligent building controls and IoT technologies.

JB&B’s approach to information technology design focuses on creating a building “mesh” to encompass all of the converged systems within the building environment.  By understanding client needs, whether that client is a facility, patient or scientist, we master plan a future-oriented design by understanding the vast industry needs and trends of today.  This enables us to design a robust system infrastructure to support high-availability networks and disaster recovery architecture.  Our team approach reaches beyond the built environment requirements to true collaboration among all team members.

JB&B’s audiovisual team stays abreast of the latest trends in the fast-paced technology market by ongoing research, working closely with manufacturers, and testing products.  We work with stakeholders and end users to cultivate innovative and adaptive designs catered to individual needs.  By utilizing a mix of interactive technology, wayfinding, dynamic signage, and accessibility designs, we provide customized experiences for each client.  Working with the client’s technology manager through both the infrastructure and design phases, we facilitate networked or local systems that are easily maintainable.

JB&B’s security design takes a multi-faceted approach toward providing the client with a system that not only allows for the seamless integration of traditional security systems but also for non-security-related building systems to be integrated into the security suite.  We help the client understand their current systems and need for additional functionality, educating them on the latest security systems that are available not only in their market sector but other verticals as well.  Understanding the options that are available, the client can make decisions that allow JB&B to provide solutions fulfilling both project and client goals.

Combining RF theory and practical application, we leverage current design techniques, as well as cutting-edge and emerging technologies, toward the design of critical wireless systems.  A distributed antenna system (DAS), engineered and installed to correspond to the unique blueprint of the building, is a critical wireless system designed for the enhanced communication of wireless devices, public safety and two-way radios inside buildings.  The JB&B DAS team specializes in cellular, first responder, antenna rooftop management, building coordination, performance specifications, design review and construction administration.

Building upon a century of engineering excellence, our Deep Carbon Reduction Group provides strategic solutions to help leaders innovate for a decarbonized future. The Group offers comprehensive energy and decarbonization services including strategic energy and carbon reduction planning, energy modeling, energy auditing, sustainability consulting, and more.

Architectural lighting design through our division, LightBox Studios.  LightBox Studios’ inclusive design approach complements and enhances the architecture as well as the users’ experience of space and place—whether it’s creating custom light fixture designs or utilizing fully dimmable light sources and daylight harvesting.  Attuned to wellness, they employ technologies such as circadian lighting to mimic the organic natural cycle by which the body transitions between sleepiness and alertness over the course of the day.  It’s with this philosophy of addressing each project creatively and sustainably that makes LightBox Studios the go-to source for quality lighting design. 

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models developed by our team simulate the movement of air and of the thermal properties within and around buildings to provide a visual representation of the complex features of HVAC design.  By providing an analysis of HVAC performance without a physical system installation or building prototype, these results inform designs to improve the quality and comfort of the indoor environments.

Since the pandemic began, JB&B has been working with PhDs and leading researchers in the domain of virus shed and spread in buildings to understand exactly how COVID-19 is infecting people and what building systems can do to mitigate the risks. Our collaborators grant us an in-depth understanding of the role that individual spreaders, droplet attributes and ventilation effectiveness play in infection, so we can evaluate the efficacy of a virus-fighting measure and constantly refine JB&B’s best practices. 

Testing, adjusting and balancing (TAB) are the three major steps used to achieve maximal operation of HVAC systems. Our TAB specialists perform air and hydronic measurements on HVAC systems and adjust the respective flows as required to achieve design performance of the building environmental equipment.

A quality-focused process that enhances the delivery of a project for green building standards, energy conservation codes and/or clientspecific requests. It maintains a primary focus on verifying and documenting that the facility and all of its systems and assemblies are planned, designed, installed, tested, operated and maintained to meet the Owner’s Project Requirements.

A process whereby a team of qualified scanning technicians digitally captures a physical object using lasers and images, with the end product a 3D representation of the object in pointcloud format assembled by our in-house engineer-modelers. The point-clouds are then used to provide a static 3D representation that serves as the foundation for development of dynamic Building Information Models.

An MEP-centric team with a dual focus on management oversight for projects and technical oversight for systems.  Leveraging our core strength with MEP systems positions us to more effectively execute project management, construction administration and operations consulting services on behalf of property management engineering staff.  Construction scheduling and budget management; bid management, leveling and invoicing review; pre-qualifying vendors and contractor/vendor coordination—all are enhanced by JB&B’s renowned precision and keen eye for the overall functionality of a project.

OO leverages building data analytics software to identify issues and make actionable recommendations to improve operation through correction of equipment/system deficiencies, implementation of new control sequences or operator protocols, and infrastructure upgrades.

Evaluation of real estate assets based on reviews to help owners understand and maintain the physical condition and value of their real estate portfolio, develop capital budgets, and prioritize resources. A formal report is delivered, including observed deficiencies, estimated lifespan of building elements and systems, and a list of recommendations for repair or replacement with estimated costs.

NYC-required inspections conducted during the construction process to verify that work is being done in accordance with the approved plans and specifications. The firm is licensed with the NYC Department of Buildings as well as accredited through the International Accreditation Service (IAS).

A service that provides onsite practical direction for coordination and troubleshooting of new and existing systems, and startup operations support, as well as guidance regarding code/plan/specification requirements, to successfully complete a project. This entails periodic visits by an engineer and acts as a bridge to the designers to minimize impacts to the project schedule.

A non-invasive proactive method of detecting potential electrical equipment/system failures utilizing infrared cameras. Our certified Level I Thermographers can identify a full spectrum of potential electrical problems, and can also diagnose mechanical equipment problems as necessary.