Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces the acquisition of Fore Solutions, a green building consulting firm that will allow Thornton Tomasetti to significantly expand its sustainability consulting services and integrate green objectives across all its practices.
Pictured left to right: Wolfgang Werner, Thornton Tomasetti's former director of sustainability, becomes vice president and head of the firm's new Building Sustainability practice in the East U.S. region. Gunnar Hubbard, Fore Solution's principal and founder, becomes a principal at Thornton Tomasetti and head of the new practice; and Robert DeScenza, president of Thornton Tomasetti. (Photo: Business Wire)
The new Building Sustainability practice will be headed by Gunnar Hubbard, Fore Solution's principal and founder, who becomes a principal at Thornton Tomasetti. Wolfgang Werner, formerly director of sustainability, becomes a vice president and head of the practice's East U.S. region.
Key Points
- The phenomenal growth of the green building movement in recent years means that sustainability is here to stay. By 2015, approximately half of new construction in the United States is estimated to incorporate some measure of sustainability.
- The addition of Fore Solutions gives Thornton Tomasetti expanded experience and an established brand in the green building world.
- With the creation of its Green Building Strategy Team in 2007 and a sustainability department in 2010, Thornton Tomasetti started offering sustainability services and performing sustainability project work. The addition of Fore Solutions will greatly advance Thornton Tomasetti's sustainability services effort to address clients' needs for high-performance, energy-efficient buildings.
- The Fore Solutions team will remain based in Portland, Maine, which is now a Thornton Tomasetti office within the East U.S. region.
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Joseph Burns, managing principal, Thornton Tomasetti
"This is a dramatic expansion of our commitment to sustainability at Thornton Tomasetti, especially our ability to support a new Building Sustainability practice. I look forward to working with our Fore Solutions team in expanding our newest practice, as well as integrating sustainable services in our existing practice areas."
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Thornton Tomasetti
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About Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.
Thornton Tomasetti is a leader in engineering design, investigation and analysis serving clients worldwide on projects of all sizes and complexity. With practices in building structure, building skin, building performance, construction support services, property loss consulting and building sustainability, Thornton Tomasetti addresses the full life cycle of a structure. We have supported clients working in more than 40 countries, with projects that include the tallest buildings and longest spans to the restoration of prized historic properties. Founded in 1956, today Thornton Tomasetti is a 550-person organization of engineers and architects collaborating from offices across the United States and in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
About Fore Solutions
Established in 2003 by Gunnar Hubbard, Fore Solutions is a leading high-performance green building firm recognized for its expertise in assisting design teams, contractors and building owners to create or improve the environmental performance of their buildings and communities. Fore Solution's passion and experience enable it to serve as LEED consultants, facilitators, sustainability consultants, and energy modelers and daylight analysts.
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Thornton Tomasetti and Fore Solutions
FAQ and FAST FACTS
1.9.2012
Why is Fore Solutions joining Thornton Tomasetti?
- One-sentence take-away: Uniting Fore Solutions and Thornton Tomasetti enables Thornton Tomasetti to address the sustainability requirements for any client and any project of any scale, and gives Fore Solutions clients easy and international access to a wide range of engineering support services.
Sustainability consulting has matured from an "add-on," or post-design service, to becoming embedded at the start of the design cycle. Today it plays a crucial role throughout the building life cycle in meeting the demand for high-performance buildings. The addition of Fore Solutions to the Thornton Tomasetti platform allows us to elevate our sustainability services to the practice level to better address our clients' energy and environmental performance requirements.
For Fore Solutions clients, Thornton Tomasetti's international presence, advanced computational capabilities and breadth of engineering expertise provide easy access to a complete suite of engineering services.
Why this particular marriage?
- One-sentence take-away: Fore Solutions has the market reach and expertise to address the needs of Thornton Tomasetti clients, regardless of geography and project scale.
When considering potential business acquisitions, Thornton Tomasetti assigns high weight to skills and culturalfit. The expertise developed at Fore Solutions is an excellent complement to our own. Equally important, Fore Solutions' company values are consistent with those of Thornton Tomasetti: a commitment to technical excellence, an enterprising client-first culture, and a flexible and creative approach to problem-solving.
Fore Solutions has successfully cultivated an international client base, spanning Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. There is an excellent overlap between clients Fore Solutions has served and those already served by Thornton Tomasetti.
The expertise that Fore Solutions brings will mesh well with Thornton Tomasetti's in-house sustainability resources, and will allow Thornton Tomasetti to customize growth of the practice to fit the unique, multidisciplinary Thornton Tomasetti platform.
How will the Building Sustainability practice complement existing Thornton Tomasetti practices?
- One-sentence take-away: Sustainability objectives are woven into a broad range of projects Thornton Tomasetti works on, not just new design; sustainability consulting will therefore be integrated into the full range of Thornton Tomasetti's service offerings.
Thornton Tomasetti's Building Sustainability practice will play a role in each of the other practices, which serve the entire lifecycle of any building:
Building Skin: Our sustainability services will show the impact of improved thermal and day-lighting skin properties on whole-building performance by helping to right-size MEP equipment, improve comfort, and lower operating costs.
Property Loss Consulting: Evaluating requirements for recertification of damaged structures, such as to recover LEED or other sustainability certification.
Building Structure and Construction Support Services: Assisting with defining and reducing the carbon footprint related to structural design and construction engineering, logistics and design.
Building Performance: Evaluate options to help clients achieve sustainability goals and reduce a building's overall energy consumption through building envelope rehabilitation and renovation.
FAST FACTS about FORE SOLUTIONS
Founded: 2003
Mission: A leading high-performance green building consulting firm recognized for its expertise in assisting design teams, contractors and building owners to create or improve the environmental performance of their buildings and communities.
Founder: Gunnar Hubbard, AIA, LEED AP BD+C ID+C, LEED®Faculty™
Offices: 386 Fore Street, Suite 401, Portland, Maine 04101 Tel: 207-347-5066
Key Services
- Sustainable Building Strategies
- LEED Consulting & Administration
- Innovation in Green Building
- Energy & Daylight Modeling
- Owners' Sustainability Representation
- Education & Training
Selected projects
Outside North America
- Museum of the Built Environment, Riyadh
- Dubai International Financial Center
- Omniyat Towers, Dubai
- Limitless Residential Towers, Amman
- Shanghai International Financial Center
- Boeblingen School, Stuttgart, Germany
- Vasakronan Multi-Use Buildings, various locations, Sweden
North America
- MGM MIRAGE CityCenter, Las Vegas, Nev.
- Harvard University, Allston Science Complex, Allston, Mass.
- Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Education Center, Boothbay, Maine
- Genzyme Manufacturing Facility, Mass.
- Hannaford Grocery Store, Augusta, Maine
- Husson University, Living Learning Center, Bangor, Maine
- Jackman Boarder Station, Jackman, Maine
- Thompson's Point Forefront Development, Portland, Maine
- University of Arizona, ISTB 1 Science Building, Phoenix, Ariz.
- University of Connecticut, Young Building, Storrs, Conn.
- University of Massachusetts Medical School, Sherman Center, Worcester, Mass.
- Vornado Realty, Office Buildings, New York, N.Y.
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