Echo Ridge’s Green Housing Development Featured in the Topeka Capital - Journal
The Echo Ridge Community is a duplex neighborhood developed by the Topeka Housing Authority as a Green Community initiative serving Topeka residents. This project has 34 duplex buildings that share a common groundsource loop that each duplex can draw from to heat and cool the homes. Other energy saving items include LED lighting, Energy Star appliances and fixtures and domestic water pre-heating via the unit heat pump.
Check out the full article about Echo Ridge’s green community on Topeka Capital - Journal’s website.
Latimer, Sommers and Associates, P.A. is a consulting engineering firm with over 50 years of experience in the design of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, telecommunications, and environmental systems. The focus of the firm has always been putting the client relationship first, focusing on the needs of the client, and being creative with design solutions. Typical projects are facilities that include healthcare and medical, judicial and correctional, educational, office, retail, multi-family, religious, military, institutional, industrial, recreational, and others.
LSA’s present Association was founded in 1987 as the successor of two previous firms dating back to 1954. Professional engineers in the firm are licensed in 26 states and perform services in at least 15 of those each year. LSA’s design studio philosophy is to have each engineer qualified to perform both mechanical and electrical design for each project and carry it through from initial contact, through design, construction and commissioning which gives superior design consistency and coordination while reinforcing design solutions with on-site interaction with contractors. An extremely diligent and particular drafting staff translates the engineer’s concepts into consistent, easy-to-read construction documents which are the key to reliable bids and clarity for the constructor.
Innovation, outside the box, cutting edge. These are terms that are heard in the industry and we at Latimer, Sommers and Associates use them, but wisely, with scrutiny, and with sound judgment. Our approach to mechanical and electrical systems has made us the “Go-to Guy”. When there is a challenge to be met, there is no one in the industry that can bring to bear the qualifications, the creativity, the history within our team. With access to our subsidiary, Energy Management and Control Corporation, which gives direct input to the field commissioning issues of systems, the 50-year breadth of experience, the diversity of design approaches, and evolving technology, LSA solves problems. Whether it’s an existing facility or a new adventure for a client, each project is a prototype, there are no preconceived answers. We are dedicated to find the best solution.