Our Solution: Performance-Driven Action

Our approach is grounded in data, tailored to unique constraints and guided by long-term thinking. These three steps can help your school shift away from quick fixes and toward long-term performance.

Step 1: Centralize Your Utility Data

Bring all your utility accounts and building automation systems into one place. When data is unified, facility teams gain real-time visibility into building performance, making it easier to track usage, benchmark efficiency and spot opportunities to reduce waste. This transparency also helps your campus community—students, faculty and parents—to see progress toward sustainability goals.

Step 2: Start Small

Most buildings lose 30–50% of energy through ventilation, heat rejection or inefficient systems. Begin by analyzing your centralized data to uncover quick wins like optimizing airflow, reusing heat or lowering hot water temperatures. These small changes can significantly cut energy demand and operating costs while setting the stage for long-term improvements.

Step 3: Build a Plan That Works for Your School

Use the insights from your data to create a roadmap tailored to your budget and timeline. A clear plan helps prioritize actions that reduce energy costs and free up funds to reinvest where it matters most: enhancing learning environments and supporting your students and faculty.

Arch Energy acts as your partner throughout this process, providing the tools to centralize your data, uncover actionable insights and guide you in building a practical, cost-effective energy roadmap that’s right for your campus.

Where We’re Doing It

Energy Optimization at Phillips Academy — Andover

When Phillips Academy set out to optimize energy use across its campus, the goal was clear: reduce costs and carbon footprint while empowering students to take part in the journey. By integrating 240 electric, steam and HVAC data points across 75 buildings, the school gained real-time insights that transformed decision-making. The results speak for themselves: upwards of 10% in energy savings and a campus-wide culture shift. During the student-led Green Cup Challenge, dorms competed to lower their energy use, achieving 6.3% reductions and sparking conversations about sustainability that extended beyond the classroom.

Contact

Kailash Viswanathan, CEM, LEED AP
kviswanathan@consigli.com | LinkedIn
As Director of Energy for Arch Energy, Kailash leverages over three decades of engineering and operations experience to help clients navigate through different stages of the decarbonization journey by planning and implementing low-carbon infrastructure strategies.

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In New York, Consigli received the Best Project Award in the K-12 Education category, as well as Awards of Merit in both the K-12 Education and the Restoration/Renovation categories. In New England, Consigli received the Best Project Award in the Higher Education/Research category and an Award of Merit in the Energy/Industrial category.

Read more about each of the five award-winning projects below:

ENR New York Awards
Best K-12 Education Project: Alice Dodge Wallace ’38 Center for Performing Arts
Consigli transformed Emma Willard School’s historic, century-old Alumnae Chapel into a state-of-the-art performing arts center and community hub, preserving 80% of the original structure to avoid 6,000 metric tons of embodied carbon. The renovation restored the limestone façade, slate roof, and baroque organ while adding a 20,000-square-foot subterranean arts wing beneath a green roof to expand theater, music, and dance resources—all designed for enhanced acoustics, sustainability and modern functionality.

K-12 Education Award of Merit: Allen Center for the Creative Arts and Technology
Hackley School’s Allen Center for the Creative Arts and Technology is a new 50,000 sq. ft. hub for creative learning, complete with a 550-seat auditorium, black box theater, art gallery and advanced digital media labs. Built with 700 tons of steel to achieve its striking curvature and cantilevers, the LEED Gold-certified facility integrates layered acoustic systems and a rainwater harvesting green roof for sustainability. Consigli overcame significant site challenges, including excavating more than 15,000 cubic yards of granite and installing over 300 rock nails for stabilization, while minimizing disruption to campus operations.

Restoration/Renovation Award of Merit: NYBCe Consolidated Campus
To create New York Blood Center (NYBC) Enterprises’ first-ever consolidated campus, Consigli transformed the former Avon headquarters into a 185,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that houses NYBC’s lifesaving research, blood collection, and cell therapy manufacturing operations. The adaptive reuse project integrated 600+ pieces of lab equipment within the existing footprint, leveraging five low-clearance mechanical mezzanines and advanced laser scanning for precision. Featuring high-efficiency heat pumps with heat recovery and a specialized vivarium, the facility sets a new standard for sustainable laboratory design in urban environments.

ENR New England Awards
Best Higher Education/Research Project: Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT and Harvard
Ragon 2.0 in Kendall Square creates a 323,000-square-foot hub for cutting-edge medical research, featuring advanced wet and dry labs, tissue culture rooms, and a vivarium. Its centerpiece—a dramatic single-helix staircase—connects collaborative spaces within a complex façade of 15 systems, 120,000 square feet of curtain wall, and a mass timber skylight. Built on a tight urban site with extensive prefabrication and design-assist coordination, the LEED Gold-certified, all-electric-ready building exceeds efficiency goals by 60%, incorporating triple-pane glazing, heat recovery systems, and a vegetated roof for sustainability and urban ecology.

Energy/Industrial Award of Merit: UNH Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Tank
Consigli and its energy division, Arch Energy, delivered a 1.4-million-gallon Thermal Energy Storage (TES) tank for the University of New Hampshire—an innovative solution equivalent to a 15,000-kWh battery. Designed to store 10,400 ton-hours of chilled water for release during peak demand, the $10.3 million project significantly reduces energy costs and environmental impact. Delivered using a design-build approach, the team overcame confined-space and high-angle challenges with enhanced safety protocols and community training. As a cornerstone of UNH’s WildCAP climate action plan, the TES tank sets a model for higher education decarbonization and long-term sustainability.

Project teams recognized by ENR’s panel of judges were evaluated on their ability to overcome challenges, contribute to industry innovation and benefit the community, as well as overall excellence in design, construction and safety execution.

Award-winning projects and teams will be honored at regional event celebrations this winter, as well as featured in ENR’s November issue.

Learn more about the ENR Regional Best Projects Awards here.

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The Consigli Construction Co., Inc. team completed a meticulous transformation of the school’s historic Alumnae Chapel – built in 1910, and one of the campus’ original buildings – into a new performing arts center and community gathering space equipped with enhanced acoustics and critical modernizations.

The full-gut renovation of the century-old chapel included the preservation of its one-of-a-kind baroque organ, as well as the restoration of its limestone façade and a full replacement of its slate roof, including structural upgrades to the wood trusses that support the chapel’s iconic vaulted ceilings. Through the preservation of approximately 80% of the renovation’s original structure, Consigli was able to support long-term campus sustainability goals by avoiding an estimated 6,000 metric tons of embodied carbon

In addition to reimagining the school’s 44,000-square-foot stone chapel into a 450-seat concert hall, Consigli also added a new 20,000-square-foot subterranean arts wing adjacent to the chapel to further expand resources for theater, music and dance. Housed beneath an accessible green roof, the sustainable new space also reduces overall energy usage by leveraging its below-grade structure’s soil thermal mass.

In addition to its Best Project recognition, Consigli also received an Award of Merit in the K-12 category for Hackley School’s Allen Center for the Creative Arts and Technology, as well as in the Restoration/Renovation category for NYBC’s new consolidated campus.

Project teams recognized by ENR’s panel of judges were evaluated on their ability to overcome challenges, contribute to industry innovation and benefit the community, as well as overall excellence in design, construction and safety execution.

Read more about the project in ENR here.

Learn more about the ENR New York Regional Best Projects Awards here.

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This 50,000-sq-ft facility redefines creative learning spaces with a 550-seat auditorium, 100-seat black box theater, rehearsal and instructional areas, flexible computer science classrooms, and the school’s first art gallery. The building also features a senior painting studio, digital media labs, and a soaring atrium that connects all levels.

Delivering this complex project required overcoming significant site challenges, including excavating more than 15,000 cubic yards of granite and installing over 300 rock nails for stabilization, while minimizing disruption to campus operations.

The structure’s unique curvature and three massive cantilevers demanded 700 tons of steel—double the typical tonnage for a building of this size. Acoustic performance was also prioritized throughout the five-story building, incorporating layered soundproofing, STC-rated doors and specialized flooring to ensure optimal sound quality and control.

Additionally, the Allen Center achieved LEED Gold certification and incorporates innovative sustainability features including a unique rainwater harvesting system that supports irrigation for the building’s green roof – enhancing the campus ecosystem – while also functioning as a sound-dampening element of the new theater.

In addition to this award, Consigli also received an Award of Merit in the Renovation/Restoration category for its work with New York Blood Center Enterprises on its new campus, as well as the top project award in the K-12 Education category for Emma Willard School’s Alice Dodge Wallace ’38 Center for the Performing Arts.

Project teams recognized by ENR’s panel of judges were evaluated on their ability to overcome challenges, contribute to industry innovation and benefit the community, as well as overall excellence in design, construction and safety execution.

Read more about the project in ENR here.

Learn more about the ENR Regional Best Projects Awards here.

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To bring Emma Willard School’s vision to life, Consigli transformed one of the oldest buildings on campus, Alumnae Chapel, into a state-of-the-art hub for the creative and performing arts with the capacity to – for the first time in decades – accommodate the entire school community in one space.

While maintaining its historic character and preserving its one-of-a-kind baroque organ, Consigli led a full-gut renovation of the century-old chapel, upgrading functionality and modernizing the space with enhanced acoustics and technology. Consigli also restored the chapel’s limestone façade and completed a full replacement of its slate roof, as well as the wood trusses that support the chapel’s vaulted ceilings.

Additionally, a new subterranean arts wing was built adjacent to the existing chapel to expand resources for theater, music and dance. Equipped with flexible studios, rehearsal spaces and a black box theater, the new space is housed beneath an accessible green roof that blends seamlessly into the campus landscape.

Learn more about the project here.

Read more in Architectural Record here.

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