The Company
Philosophy
NeuMod Labs (NML) was founded to develop and deploy data infrastructure for the design, analysis, compliance, and operation of the built environment. NML was founded with the goal of taking a fresh look at the Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) industry and to provide cutting-edge data, automation, and analytics solutions for the sector-wide decarbonization of buildings.
NML’s leadership is applying its 25+ years of combined experience in developing pragmatic solutions to achieving targeted decarbonization goals, by strategically prototyping and deploying the next generation of sophisticated calculation methods and novel technology solutions that foster industrywide collaboration, with a focus on market differentiation. The team has spent years researching and developing innovative data science pipelines and workflows to design foundational technologies for data preparation, model training and tuning, and the deployment of targeted data-driven technologies.
NML leadership is a firm believer in the philosophy of first principles so our typical approach involves deconstructing the problem into its constituent elements, and re-engineering a solution ground-up with simplicity and modern technology at its core. Taking lessons learned from a combined 25+ years of industry experience, reputable thought leadership, and the application of rigorous analytical methods acquired in academia and research, NML is developing cutting-edge data and analytics solutions for the AEC industry.
Mission
Our mission is to facilitate an equitable, pragmatic, and cost-effective decarbonization of the buildings sector to help mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
Certification
NML is a certified small business for federal awards and is registered with SAM.gov.
Our Services
Low Carbon Buildings
Decarbonization is a major focus of the buildings industry and is gaining momentum daily in a variety of aspects from energy use, refrigerant and methane leaks, and embodied carbon to name a few. We conduct deep dive decarbonization studies focused on leveraging interval data from building management system to inform detailed analyses. NML leverages its background in building physics, sustainability, engineering design, and data analysis to determine realistic targets and pathways for decarbonization. The team specializes in projects with complex systems, indoor environmental quality requirements, and/or façade challenges, and often the goal is to achieve maximum benefit while minimizing disruption to ongoing operations.
Buildings Research
NML is closely collaborating with its vast network of industry partners in leading innovative buildings research to advance the goal of cross-sector decarbonization to build and foster resilient communities that are, or will be most affected by climate change. NML and its partners continually identify high-importance R&D areas to work with government, code jurisdictions, trade associations, professional organizations, private businesses, and others to solve this problem with the alacrity that it deserves.
Software & Products
The buildings sector is a highly fragmented market so project delivery workflows are extremely siloed, thus reducing process efficiency, stymieing innovation, and impeding the adoption of advanced technologies. The NML team can help AEC firms gain a competitive edge over their peers by re-engineering their workflows for cost-effective data-driven design, consulting, and automated reporting. It can help turn large data lakes into structed data warehouses for firms to derive automated intelligent insights using completely tool-agnostics data exchange. Standardized data ingestion, transformation, and validation can greatly reduce production costs by encouraging internal and external collaboration and cutting down duplicated effort.
NML’s experience includes typical delivery software such as Autodesk REVIT, Autodesk CAD, SketchUp, Trane TRACE 700, eQUEST, EnergyPlus, OpenStudio, TRNSYS, HAP, ComCheck, and others.
Training & Expert Reviews
NML provides training services to a variety of audiences in buildings and related areas for – Decarbonization, Building Performance Modeling, Data Engineering and Data Modeling, Building Codes and Standards, Programming for Automation, and others. In addition, NML is routinely invited to lend its expertise to review draft standards, funding proposals, and engineering design documents. NML also provides quality assurance and expert legal reviews.
Founders
Sagar Rao
Sagar is a renowned expert in the field of Computational Analysis for the Built Environment. His unique background covers building physics, data engineering, and software development. As a Building Performance Consultant, he has successfully delivered over 50 high performance buildings for a clientele that includes federal agencies, state authorities, prominent healthcare systems, renowned universities, financial institutions, and national laboratories. Sagar provides leadership to several ASHRAE, International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), and Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) committees. He has directly contributed to the development of several building codes, standards, and government regulations, including the US Code of Federal Regulations.
Expertise
Fred Betz
Fred is a sought-after expert in complex facilities decarbonization and electrification. Fred is a mechanical engineer by training with a PhD in Building Performance and Diagnostics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has 14 years of experience in mechanical engineering and building performance consulting focused on climate responsive design in facilities such as hospitals, laboratories, data centers, and corporate spaces. Fred has published more than twenty peer reviewed articles on topics including: decarbonization, water efficiency and reuse, climate-precipitation, HVAC technologies, and infection prevention related to healthcare facility HVAC. Fred also serves on several industry and trade association committees within ASHRAE, ASHE, and the U.S. EPA.
Expertise
Key Contributors
Satish Pethkar
Full-stack Web Developer
Satish has over 11 years of experience developing desktop and web application for a variety of industries that include – banking, workplace productivity, healthcare, and media streaming. His past projects include working on technologies such as ReactJS, NodeJS, Angular, MySQL, MongoDB, Django, as well as a variety of web visualization packages. He specializes in deploying software platforms using popular cloud services such as AWS and Azure. He has most recently been developing Electron-based desktop applications. Satish has made significant contributions to web deploying NML’s Project Jarvis.
Parag Rastogi
Climate Change Modeling Expert
Parag did his PhD with the LIPID group in the School of Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. His research was on the assessment of, and methods to address, uncertainty in building performance simulation arising from weather data and the thermo-physical properties of materials. He is passionate about healthy buildings, infrastructure, and climate. When not working on challenging trans-disciplinary problems in indoor environmental quality and building physics, he is to be found reading or writing about air quality, energy, development, the environment, and policy. Parag is a close collaborator in NML’s research to develop high-quality stochastic predictive climate files for the built environment.
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