A Message from our CEO
“Our customers are tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges: cleaner energy, resilient infrastructure, making the most of natural resources. CDI will be at the forefront, providing innovative and sustainable solutions, exploring all options in pursuit of answers to these challenges.”

Steve Karlovic
President/CEO
CDI Engineering Solutions
Capabilities
The following is a full list of our company’s Sustainable Experience:
Decarbonization
- Carbon footprint assessment and reduction
- Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS)
- Blue Fuels/Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)
- Green and Blue ammonia and fertilizer production
Renewable Fuels
- Bio & renewable diesel
- Synthetic fuels
- Ammonia fuel
- Compressed hydrogen gas
Green Electric Power
- Photovoltaic generation
- Wind Generation
Energy Efficiency & Conservation
- LEED and Sustainable Architecture
- Plant efficiency & power factor
- Energy-efficient lighting
- High-efficiency Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning – Geothermal heating/cooling
Energy Storage
- Compressed air
- Battery (plant and utility-scale)
- Battery material production
Environment
- Brownfield site redevelopment
- Water resources planning and management
- Water and wastewater treatment
- Impact studies and risk assessment
- Clean/low sulfur fuels
Designing Sustainable Buildings: Incorporating Green Building Design, Lighting & HVAC Management & Maintenance
With every project our team designs, we always strive to include sustainable design principles, even if LEED Certification is not the Client’s goal. While LEED certification may not be the goal, consideration will still be given to LEED strategies, and attention will be given to conforming to appropriate ASHRAE standards. Our team’s full architectural and engineering capabilities allow us to provide in-house integrated systems design, a process mandated by the pursuit of green buildings.
L.R. Kimball strives to include the following sustainable design principles in all of our building projects where possible:
- Use of daylighting to improve the work environment
- Energy modeling software – determines energy consumption versus first cost and maintenance costs for potential systems
- Utilize energy recovery – to minimize the utility usage for building
- Design high efficient LED lighting fixtures and lighting control systems – use “manual on, automatic off” technology along with timing systems that best control lighting fixtures, limits wasted usage, while maintaining the required security needs
- ASHRAE 90.1 energy code requirements – HVAC and lighting power efficiencies
- Design with maintenance in mind – incorporate designs that minimize costly maintenance and maximize life cycles based on cost analysis
- Utilization of solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal energy where possible – determined by site conditions, building requirements, first cost, etc., and whether these solutions are a benefit.
Sustainably Designed Projects
Our team includes LEED Accredited professionals on staff within Architecture and Mechanical, Plumbing, and Civil Engineering disciplines. We’ve completed over 2 million square feet and over $325 million in construction value of LEED Certified projects including the following project, completed in 2016:
Middlesex County College, Science Hall Building, Edison, NJ
LEED® Gold Level certification
“Overall Middlesex County College had a very successful experience working with L.R. Kimball and our students are now benefiting from their work.”
– Donald R. Drost, Jr., Executive Director, Facilities Management
Sheetz, Inc. New Headquarters & Operations
Support Center, Claysburg, PA
Sustainability designed however the client chose not to pursue LEED Certification
- The exterior wall is constructed of metal stud framing over which an exterior insulation system was installed to eliminate thermal bridging.
- The skin of the building consists of fiber cement architectural wall panels, natural stone veneer, and aluminum curtain wall.
- High efficiency condensing boilers rated
at 95% efficiency were used, resulting in energy savings and less discharge to the atmosphere. - High-efficiency commercial water heaters are able to sustain 96% thermal efficiency over the lifetime of the equipment.
“This building is phenomenal; we are so happy to add it to what we can now call a campus,” said President and CEO Joe Sheetz at the ribbon-cutting event. “We wanted a building that was modern and has longevity to it, and we wanted something more collaborative and open. The idea of what a workplace should look like has changed. You need a lot of energy and light. That is what members of today’s workforce want and demand.”
Source: https://www.cspdailynews.com/company-news/sheetz-opens-new-operations-support-center

