Austin MEP Firm

Name: Cleary Zimmermann Engineers
Address: 3218 Manor Rd Suite #200, Austin, Texas, 78723, US
Telephone: (512) 220-9200

The Leading Austin MEP Firm

Cleary Zimmermann Engineers is a mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering firm with a dedicated Austin office serving projects throughout Central Texas. Our Austin team is led by Aaron Lovelock, PE, and Aaron Heaps, PE — two principals who are embedded in the local design and construction community and directly engaged on every project we take on here. We serve not just the City of Austin but the full I-35 corridor: Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Leander, Pflugerville, Hutto, Kyle, Buda, Bastrop, San Marcos, Killeen, Temple, Waco, and the communities in between. For clients anywhere in this region, Cleary Zimmermann is a local team with statewide resources behind it.

Austin’s construction market has been running at a pace that would strain most engineering teams. Population growth across the metro and suburbs has driven a wave of school construction, healthcare expansion, university building programs, and commercial development that shows no sign of slowing. Our Austin team is sized and structured for that environment — organized, proactive, and experienced managing the schedule pressure and coordination demands that come with a market moving this fast.

MEP Engineering Services in Austin

Our Austin office provides the full range of building MEP services — mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering — along with commissioning and IT/security design. Every discipline is handled in-house and coordinated together from the start, which produces cleaner documents, fewer RFIs in the field, and better-performing buildings at turnover.

Mechanical Engineering: HVAC system design, load calculations, equipment selection, plumbing engineering, and energy code compliance for all project types across Central Texas. Austin’s climate demands systems designed for intense summer heat with enough flexibility to handle temperature swings and the occasional winter freeze event — we design for the full range, not just peak cooling.
Electrical Engineering: Power distribution, lighting design, emergency and standby systems, low-voltage design, and utility coordination with Austin Energy and Oncor across the metro and surrounding service territories. We design for efficiency, code compliance, and long-term reliability across every building type we serve.
Plumbing Engineering: Domestic water supply and distribution, sanitary and storm drainage, fixture scheduling, and specialty systems including medical gas for healthcare and laboratory environments. Water conservation considerations and the Edwards Aquifer Protection Zone add context to plumbing and site drainage design for Central Texas projects.
Commissioning: Independent verification that building systems are installed, calibrated, and performing according to design intent and owner requirements. Our commissioning team works across all project types and scales, and stays engaged through the post-occupancy period to make sure systems perform as designed in actual operation.
IT/Security Design: Data infrastructure, access control, surveillance, audio/visual, and communications systems design — coordinated with the MEP scope from the start of design. Austin’s technology sector means IT/security design expectations on commercial and corporate projects here are often more sophisticated than in other Texas markets.

Austin Project Types We Serve

Central Texas construction spans a wide range of project types, and our Austin team brings genuine sector experience to each one — not just a general MEP capability applied generically across industries. The project types below represent the work most active in our region, and each has its own engineering requirements, code considerations, and performance expectations.

Healthcare: Austin’s healthcare sector has grown substantially alongside the region’s population — St. David’s, Ascension Seton, Baylor Scott & White, and a network of outpatient facilities, surgery centers, and specialty clinics now serve a metro that has nearly doubled in size over two decades. MEP systems for these facilities must meet exacting standards for pressurization, ventilation classification, redundancy, and infection control. Our Austin healthcare MEP practice is built around those demands.
Hospital MEP: Acute care hospital facilities require a depth of MEP engineering — emergency power, medical gas systems, critical environment pressurization, life safety coordination — that sets them apart from other healthcare project types. Our Austin hospital MEP team has the regulatory knowledge and design experience those projects require.
Higher Education: The University of Texas at Austin anchors a regional higher education landscape that also includes Texas State University in San Marcos, Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas A&M Central Texas in Killeen, and Austin Community College across multiple campuses. We design MEP systems for academic buildings, research laboratories, student housing, and campus infrastructure with a thorough understanding of the operational and code requirements unique to higher education environments. Visit our Austin higher education MEP page for more.
University MEP: Large research university campuses present MEP coordination challenges that go beyond standard institutional construction — aging infrastructure, phased work in occupied buildings, complex utility interconnections, and lab environments with specialized ventilation and utility requirements. Our Austin university MEP team is experienced across all of it.
K-12 Education: The suburban school districts surrounding Austin — Leander ISD, Round Rock ISD, Georgetown ISD, Pflugerville ISD, Hays CISD, Bastrop ISD, and others — have been building at a pace that reflects some of the fastest population growth in the state. We design MEP systems for new campuses, additions, and renovations, with deep experience on bond-funded programs and the accountability structures that come with them. Our Austin K-12 MEP practice is built for this work.
Medical Facilities: Outpatient clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, medical office buildings, and specialty care facilities require MEP systems designed to healthcare code standards outside the full complexity of an acute care hospital. Our Austin medical MEP practice covers this complete range of facility types across the Central Texas region.
Municipal and Government: City and county facilities, public safety buildings, libraries, and community infrastructure across Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Kyle, Buda, and the surrounding municipalities require reliable, durable MEP systems built for long-term public service. We’ve delivered municipal MEP projects across Texas and bring that experience to Central Texas public-sector work.
Commercial and Technology: Austin’s emergence as a major technology hub — with campuses from Apple, Samsung, Tesla, Oracle, and dozens of other firms anchoring the market — has created demand for commercial and corporate MEP engineering at a scale and sophistication level that goes well beyond a typical office build. We design systems for office buildings, tech campuses, mixed-use developments, and data-adjacent facilities throughout the metro.

Serving the Full I-35 Corridor and Central Texas

Our Austin office isn’t limited to the City of Austin. We serve the full geographic footprint of Central Texas — from the Hill Country communities to the south through the I-35 corridor north to Waco. If your project is in Cedar Park, Leander, Pflugerville, Hutto, Round Rock, Georgetown, Buda, Kyle, San Marcos, Bastrop, Killeen, Temple, or Waco, our Austin team is your local MEP engineering resource. We’re familiar with the jurisdictions, utility providers, and building officials across this entire service area — not just the Austin city limits.

Aaron Heaps, PE, serves as Principal of Operations and manages the firm’s project workflow across the Austin region and beyond. Aaron Lovelock, PE, leads Building MEP design for the Austin market. Together they bring the depth and coverage to support both large institutional programs and individual building projects anywhere in Central Texas. Our leadership team stays directly involved in project delivery — engaged from first design meeting through construction closeout.

Start Your Central Texas Project With Cleary Zimmermann

Whether your project is in Austin proper or anywhere along the I-35 corridor — Round Rock, Georgetown, Waco, Kyle, Temple, or anywhere in between — our Austin team is ready to get to work. Bring us in early and we’ll help you make smarter decisions at every phase, from system selection and energy strategy through construction closeout and commissioning.

Contact Cleary Zimmermann to connect with our Austin team and get the conversation started. You can also explore our full MEP engineering services or browse our project portfolio to see the kind of work we deliver.

Leadership

Aaron Lovelock, PE

Principal | Building MEP

Aaron Heaps, PE

Principal | Operations

Austin MEP Engineering — Frequently Asked Questions

Does Cleary Zimmermann have an Austin office?

Yes. Cleary Zimmermann Engineers maintains a full-service Austin office at 3218 Manor Road, Suite 200, Austin, TX 78723. The office is staffed with engineers and project managers who work on Central Texas projects locally. You can reach the Austin office directly at (512) 220-9200.

What areas of Central Texas does the Austin office serve?

Cleary Zimmermann’s Austin team serves the full Central Texas region, including Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Leander, Pflugerville, Hutto, Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, Bastrop, Killeen, Temple, Waco, and the surrounding communities. The team covers the entire I-35 corridor from South Austin north through the Brazos Valley, along with the Hill Country communities to the west.

Who leads the Austin MEP team?

The Austin office is led by two principals: Aaron Lovelock, PE, who leads Building MEP design for the Austin market, and Aaron Heaps, PE, who serves as Principal of Operations and manages project workflow and delivery across the region. Both principals stay directly involved in project execution rather than handing off to project managers after contract.

What project types does the Austin MEP team handle?

Cleary Zimmermann’s Austin team handles MEP engineering for K-12 schools, higher education and university facilities, healthcare and hospital buildings, municipal and government projects, technology and corporate campuses, and commercial construction throughout Central Texas. They work on new construction, major renovations, building additions, and campus infrastructure programs at every scale.

What school districts in the Austin area has Cleary Zimmermann worked with?

Our Austin K-12 MEP team has experience working with school districts across the Central Texas region, including Leander ISD, Round Rock ISD, Georgetown ISD, Pflugerville ISD, Hays CISD, Bastrop ISD, and others. The team designs MEP systems for new campuses, additions, and renovations, with significant experience on bond-funded programs across fast-growing suburban districts.

When should I bring a Central Texas MEP engineer into my project?

MEP engineers should be engaged during schematic design, concurrent with early architectural work — not after the building layout is set. In Central Texas specifically, early MEP involvement allows the team to address energy code requirements, utility coordination with Austin Energy or Oncor, and site-specific considerations like Edwards Aquifer proximity when those decisions are still easy to make. Bringing MEP engineers in late consistently results in more expensive redesign and more RFIs during construction.