Innovating Beyond Boundaries

To Meet the Decarbonization Challenge

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25-Year Legacy of Innovation

Noblis is a transformational partner to the federal government, committed to enriching lives and making our nation safer by investing in the missions of today and tomorrow. As a nonprofit organization, we combine objectivity and innovation with the most advanced science, technology and engineering to solve complex national challenges that help advance our customers’ most critical missions.

Noblis is committed to advancing the federal sustainability mission.

Our strategic and regulatory expertise can demystify the complexities of decarbonizing the built environment. We integrate sustainable design, energy-efficient technologies, carbon pollution-free electricity, low-carbon materials and more, to reduce the environmental impact of buildings and infrastructure and increase resilience at scale. By leveraging our innovative strategies, the federal government can transition towards net-zero carbon emissions while ensuring compliance with evolving regulations and enhancing mission readiness.

Our Expertise

Life Cycle Thinking

We look at decarbonization throughout a building’s life cycle and prioritize strategies that minimize cost and impacts from early design phases, through major renovations, to end-of-life strategies.

Resilience

Our approach treats decarbonization and resilience as synergistic, offering strategies that reduce the environmental impacts of the built environment while ensuring that federal infrastructure can endure changing environmental conditions to continue sustaining the mission.

Energy Efficiency & Electrification

Federal agencies face the challenge of becoming and remaining energy efficient while also meeting their mission. Our expertise in reducing energy loads integrates technologies like high-efficiency HVAC and smart lighting controls to optimize both costs and energy efficiency for federal facilities.

Carbon Pollution-Free Electricity

To put federal agencies’ carbon pollution-free electricity goals in reach, Noblis integrates technology and know-how across domains. From artificial intelligence and forecasting tools to expert contract negotiations, our team understands how to power operations with clean, resilient and secure electricity.

Circularity

Noblis prioritizes and promotes circularity, and we offer a suite of practices that integrate recycled and reused content to reduce waste. We find opportunities for value retention through practices like deconstruction, adaptive reuse of buildings and upcycling valuable materials — a few of many strategies that reduce embodied carbon in the built environment and promote a circular economy.

Occupant Health

With a holistic view of sustainability that also encompasses human factors, Noblis ensures that buildings not only meet decarbonization goals but also enhance both physical and mental health. By incorporating strategies that improve indoor air quality, optimize natural lighting and prioritize non-toxic materials, we create environments that promote health, well-being and productivity for their occupants.

Promoting Sustainable, Resilient Energy and Environment Mission Solutions

Learn MoreAt Noblis, we help government agencies identify the nature, magnitude and likelihood of risks; identify actions that will mitigate those risks; and use that information to make prudent fiscal decisions and ensure successful mission outcomes.

Why Noblis

Research & Development for the Best of Reasons

Noblis’ labs and research centers are at the heart of our work. They provide a place for our interdisciplinary teams to explore and develop the disruptive capabilities, breakthrough innovations and transformative scientific discoveries that fuel the technological and engineering solutions we deliver today and anticipate for tomorrow across the civil, defense, homeland security, intelligence, space and health missions we serve.

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Investing in the Future

From helping the General Services Administration (GSA) create their Sustainable Facilities Tool (SFTool.gov) to implementing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) frameworks at the Department of Defense (DoD) that improve sustainability and mission readiness, Noblis’ research has lasting mission impacts. Through our internal Noblis Sponsored Research program, we employ an enterprise-wide ideation process to develop and invest in possibilities. We use our own insights, time and funding to transform novel ideas and inventions into practical, sustainable solutions that meet tomorrow’s challenges.

Collaborating for Lasting Impacts

We work together as one team collaborating on multiple technologies, domains and missions across our organization. In addition, as an innovation gateway, we purposely engage with industry, the research community and our customers to solve the most unique and critical challenges.