Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc.

Environmental Health & Engineering, known as EH&E, is a Newton firm providing environmental consulting, engineering, health and safety services to businesses and institutions across the United States. Its work helps organizations create healthy work environments for the people who use their buildings while reducing their environmental impact. Services span building performance and energy optimization, construction emissions monitoring and scientific studies on environmental questions.

The firm has operated since 1988 and pairs technical problem-solving with an eye on clients’ operating costs and assets. One example is its recommissioning of the Longwood Center, a 414,000-square-foot life sciences building in Boston, where EH&E found and fixed an inefficient chiller system, miscalibrated utility meters and deviations from the building’s design. That work also helped the owner choose a path to comply with Boston’s building emissions ordinance.

What to Know

• EH&E research found greenhouse gas emissions for corn ethanol to be 46 percent lower than gasoline.
• The firm has taken measurements to debunk false claims about granite countertops.
• It has resolved construction emissions exceedances in under an hour.