Blue Forest Engineering
Blue Forest Engineering was founded in 2017 by Tyler Bradshaw in Oakland, CA. After more than 20 years of experience in the industry and completing many groundbreaking sustainable projects, he wanted to work within a more “purpose driven” work environment, something different from the “mission driven profit first” model too common in larger engineering firms. For us, that purpose is to make the sustainable building design available to everyone, to every project and make it easy to replicate by others through open dialog and sharing even with our competitors. This is the “Why” of this firm and what motivates us to rise in the morning with energy and enthusiasm to tackle the unique challenges that are inherent in doing something special and worthwhile in our work and life in general. Blue Forest Engineering is unique from other M&P firms in that it seeks solutions to building systems designs that identify and leverage synergistic opportunities between building systems, building envelope and natural site resources. For example, our first task on the HVAC design is work towards reduce the loads first through smart collaboration with the architects early in the project while the envelope & programming elements are still in development and easy to modify. Most systems design approach rely primarily on the application of proven off the shelf components but we consider emerging technologies where it makes sense to do so. We know that simple, low technology approaches and systems are those most likely to work properly not just the first year but more importantly for the life of the building and will require less owner intervention to do so. A paraphrased quote by Albert Einstein best sums our approach, “Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler”.
