
533 West 27th Street is a 12-story, 135-foot residential building in Chelsea, spanning 88,000 square feet. The project is currently in design, developed by Silvera Properties and designed by GI-T Architecture. Downtown Engineers is leading the full MEP design.
The building carries a floor-to-ceiling curtain wall on every residential floor. That much glass produces serious solar heat gain on the south and west exposures, well beyond what a conventional masonry façade would generate. A standard residential HVAC assumption would not hold here, so the façade, not a default load table, had to drive the mechanical design.

Full MEP design for a 12-story Chelsea residential building wrapped in a floor-to-ceiling curtain wall.
We zoned the HVAC by unit and sized the fan coils for the load profile the curtain wall actually creates, rather than a conventional residential baseline.
Working closely with Gil Even-Tsur at GI-T Architecture from the early coordination sessions, we are aligning the MEP design with the architecture while construction planning gets underway.
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