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.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $1.1k
Billed in all: $3,756$3.8k
$568 in the last 6 months
Across 4 contracts
Across 14 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 25% in Sustainable Energy
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