ENERlite Consulting:

Smart Design. Efficient Buildings. Healthier Futures.

ENERlite helps create environments that are healthy, energy-efficient, and cost-effective.

At ENERlite, we specialize in building performance consulting that integrates daylighting, thermal comfort, and energy simulation from concept to completion. Our mission is to help design teams and building owners make data-driven decisions that reduce energy use, enhance comfort, and support sustainability goals.

Featured Projects

  • Monarch Multifamily Building, Sacramento, CA

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  • Woodspring Suites Hotel, Chippendale, CA

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  • PA’IA Youth Cultural Center , Kahului, HI

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  • Fern Bacon Middle School

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  • MountZED

    MountZED Ecovillage reimagines San Diego’s Mount Hope as a net-zero community built for resilience and equity. Featuring CNC-cut modular homes, solar canopies, EV-ready parking, and shared green spaces, it integrates renewable energy and storage to achieve self-sufficiency.

What We Do

Building Energy Modeling (BEM) and AI-Assisted Calibration

Title 24 Compliance

Decarbonization & Electrification

Daylighting, Thermal Comfort, and LCA Analysis

Green Building Certification

Why ENERlite?

Integrating Daylighting with Energy Simulation

In most projects, daylighting analysis is performed separately from energy simulation. As a result, the impact that daylighting has on the energy usage of a building is neglected. At ENERlite, energy and daylighting simulations are performed simultaneously and their interaction is studied and analyzed. This provides an enhanced level of service and saves time in regards to generating model inputs.

Tools that fit your workflow

Revit, Rhino, IESVE, EnergyPlus, OpenStudio, CBECC-Com, and more.

We use multiple software programs, adjusted based on the project type and phase. At the early stages of design, full analysis of the climate, microclimate, and massing studies takes place with Ladybug and Honeybee tools for Grasshopper. The 3D geometry is created in Revit or Rhino. Energy models are designed in IES, DesignBuilder, or CBECC compliance software.

Maximizing Efficiency with Shared Geometry and Data

The building geometry and model input data are generated in a way that they could be shared among various platforms and used by programs that interact with each other. This saves significant time for energy and the daylight modeling process.

Human-Centered Comfort and Sustainable Performance

At ENERlite, we test the thermal comfort and visual comfort of occupants. We prioritize the comfort of humans and energy efficiency. Daylight Glare Probability (DGP) is assessed for visual comfort; predicted mean vote (PMV) and predicted percentage of dissatisfied (PPD) are assessed for thermal comfort in various spaces of the building

Integrated Tools for Climate, Energy, and Geometry Analysis

We use multiple software programs, adjusted based on the project type and phase. At the early stages of design, full analysis of the climate, microclimate, and massing studies take place with Ladybug and Honeybee tools for Grasshopper. The 3D geometry is created in Revit or Rhino. Energy models are created in IES, DesignBuilder, or CBECC compliance software.

Merging Architecture with Building Science

ENERlite combines a deep understanding of building science with the aesthetic and architectural features of building design. Proposed efficiency strategies are inherited in design and adjusted based on each project. 

ENERtune: Automated Building Energy Model Calibration

Founder

Ladan Ghobad, Ph.D. is the founder of ENERlite Consulting, Inc who started the company based on the idea of integrating and combining energy and daylighting analysis in buildings.

Let’s Work Together

Need to meet energy code, exceed sustainability benchmarks, or create a building people love to be in?

Contact us for a free consultation
4750 J Street, # 19941, Sacramento, CA 95819

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