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Elya M.

Building Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Energy Modeler, LEED

🏗️ Energy Modeler & Building Performance Specialist MSc | Healthy & Sustainable Buildings | 6+ Years Experience I help architects, developers, and engineering firms design energy-efficient, certification-ready buildings — with simulation models that are accurate, actionable, and submission-ready for USGBC/GBCI. Experienced Building Energy Engineer with hands-on expertise in Hottgenroth Energy Software, DesignBuilder (EnergyPlus), and Revit. I provide GEG-compliant energy calculations, U-value analysis, building energy simulations, energy performance certificates (Energieausweis), and sustainable building consulting for residential and commercial projects. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔬 WHAT I DELIVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Whole-Building Energy Simulation EnergyPlus & DesignBuilder — full annual energy models, baseline & proposed ☀️ LEED v4.1 Daylight Simulation (EQ Credit) → Option 1: sDA & ASE via simulation (IES-VE / Radiance-compliant methodology) → Option 2: Prescriptive glazing & geometry compliance → Detailed credit documentation ready for USGBC submission 🌡️ Thermal & Envelope Performance Analysis U-value checks, thermal bridging, passive performance under ASHRAE & EU standards 🚿 DHW & Solar Thermal Modeling Baseline gas boiler + calorifier setup, solar thermal scenario comparison, exported energy outputs 📋 Compliance & Certification Support ASHRAE 90.1, Title 24, EU energy codes | LEED documentation & GBCI-ready reports 📊 Energy Reports & Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Clear, well-structured deliverables your team can act on immediately ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE ME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Structural & civil engineering background — I understand constructability, not just software ✔ Every project includes full documentation + a submission-ready report ✔ Timely communication and milestone updates throughout ✔ Based in Germany | Fluent in English, German | Available across time zones 📩 Let's build something efficient — and certifiable — together.

🇩🇪Munich, Germany$23/hr100% JSS5.00 (5)Since Sep 2024

Earnings and projects

MRR
$189

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#115,377 / 412k
🇩🇪Country#876 / 3,842
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $1.1k

Total earnings
$3.6k

Billed in all: $3.8k

World#283,333 / 412k
🇩🇪Country#2,419 / 3,842
Per project
$398

$568 in the last 6 months

World#204,440 / 412k
🇩🇪Country#1,980 / 3,842
Projects, last 6 months
2

Across 4 contracts

25% fixed75% hourly
World#88,921 / 412k
🇩🇪Country#715 / 3,842
Projects in all
9

Across 14 contracts

29% fixed71% hourly
World#212,270 / 412k
🇩🇪Country#1,898 / 3,842

Earnings, last 30 days

$3.8kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$3,700$3,750$3,800$3,850Oct 9Oct 24Nov 8

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