hughes consulting engineering, PA
HVAC | ELECTRICAL | PLUMBING | ENERGY STUDIES

Services

Residental, Commercial, and Industrial Engineering Design
HVAC

Our job is to ensure your heating. ventilation, and air conditioning system is designed to keep you comfortable every day of the year. Efficiency is also an important component of our designs to save you money, as well as to minimize our impact on the environment.

Plumbing

We provide full plumbing layout design services that are valuable in structural and architectural coordination.

Electrical

Professional electrical design ensures you that your home or business electrical needs are safe and reliable.

Fire & Life Safety

Fire and life safety design and consulting services includes emergency egress lighting layouts, smoke and carbon monoxide detection, smoke evacuation management, fire alarm system battery calculations, fire alarm horn and strobe layouts, and scope of work documents for fire sprinkler systems.

CONDITION ASSESSMENTS

Engineering review services are offered to buyers, sellers and owners of buildings wanting to know the condition and potential future cost associated with the buildings in question. We perform PCA site visits all over the United States with full reports. Over 60 assessments totaling to over 18 million square feet of building space has been conducted in the past year.

ENERGY STUDIES

Our experience and professional software tools can allow us to model your project’s building components and energy use to provide recommendations that could dramatically lower your utility costs.

About Us

Engineering solutions for the real world
Comfort, Efficiency, and Professional Design

Hughes Consulting Engineering, PA provides comprehensive engineering design and building assessment services for a wide range of building systems, including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, electrical power distribution, and lighting systems. Our designs emphasize energy efficiency, system reliability, occupant comfort, and long-term maintainability, delivering solutions that maximize value throughout the life of the facility. We provide engineering services for residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial projects of all sizes. Our experience spans a diverse range of facility types, including schools, financial institutions, restaurants, retail establishments, recreational facilities, office and warehouse buildings, churches, and other specialty occupancies. In addition to engineering design, Hughes Consulting Engineering, PA offers independent building engineering assessments for property owners, buyers, sellers, lenders, and investors. These evaluations provide an objective assessment of existing building systems, identify current deficiencies, estimate remaining service life, and help forecast future repair and replacement costs. Our review services enable clients to make informed decisions regarding property acquisition, capital planning, and long-term facility management.

  • Heating Ventilation and Cooling

    Mechanical engineering design and hydronic heating. Click here to learn more or see some of our recent projects.

  • Plumbing and Electrical

    Plumbing supply and sanitary layouts, electrical load calculations and service sizing. Click here to learn more.

  • PHYSICAL CONDITION ASSESSMENTS

    National site visits and reporting. Click here to learn more about assessment services.

  • Energy Studies

    Building energy modeling and utility studies

Design and Assessment Services

Click to learn more about our design or assessment services.

See some of our recent projects.

Our Team

Engineering and Integrity
Steven Hughes, PE LEED AP
Steven Hughes, PE LEED AP
President
Steven Hughes has been the President and Principal of Hughes Consulting Engineering, PA since 1998.
Dimitri Merrill, PE
Dimitri Merrill, PE
Engineer
Dimitri Merrill has been an associate with Hughes Consulting Engineering, PA since 2010.
Julie Heschmeyer
Julie Heschmeyer
Office Manager

Testimonials

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