Houston MEP Firm
The Premier MEP Firm in Houston and the Gulf Coast
Cleary Zimmermann Engineers is a mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering firm with a dedicated Houston office serving projects throughout Greater Houston and the surrounding Gulf Coast region. Our Houston team is led by Miles Nommensen, PE, a principal with deep experience across the project types that define this market — healthcare, higher education, K-12, industrial, and commercial construction. Backed by more than 20 years of Texas engineering practice and five offices statewide, we bring both local presence and statewide capacity to every Houston project we take on.
Houston is one of the most demanding construction markets in the country — and one of the most complex to engineer for. The combination of extreme heat, persistent humidity, and the ever-present risk of flooding pushes MEP systems in ways that don’t apply in most other Texas markets. Our Houston team designs for those conditions from the start, not as an afterthought. We’re organized, responsive, and built for the pace and scale of a city that doesn’t slow down.
MEP Engineering Services in Houston
Our Houston office delivers the full range of building MEP services — mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering — along with commissioning and IT/security design for complex facilities. Every discipline is handled in-house, which means tighter coordination, cleaner construction documents, and a single point of accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
- Mechanical Engineering: HVAC system design, humidity and latent load management, plumbing engineering, equipment selection, and energy code compliance. In Houston’s climate, getting mechanical right isn’t optional — undersized or poorly specified systems fail fast, and the energy cost of an inefficient design compounds over the life of the building.
- Electrical Engineering: Power distribution, lighting design, emergency and standby systems, low-voltage design, and utility coordination across CenterPoint Energy’s service territory. We design for efficiency, code compliance, and long-term operational reliability across all building types.
- Plumbing Engineering: Domestic water supply and distribution, sanitary and storm drainage, fixture scheduling, and specialty systems including medical gas for healthcare and laboratory environments. Drainage design in Houston requires particular attention to the region’s rainfall intensity and flood risk.
- 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, from standalone buildings to large campus programs.
- IT/Security Design: Data infrastructure, access control, surveillance, audio/visual, and communications systems design — integrated with the MEP scope from the start of design rather than coordinated as an afterthought.
Building MEP and Industrial MEP in Houston
Houston’s economy runs on industry — petrochemical, energy, manufacturing, distribution — and that sector demands MEP engineering that goes well beyond standard commercial design. Cleary Zimmermann provides both building MEP and industrial MEP services in the Houston market. Process cooling, hazardous area classifications, specialized ventilation, and high-demand power distribution all look very different in an industrial facility, and our industrial practice is built around those specific demands. For owners and operators who can’t afford system downtime, that expertise matters.Houston Project Types We Serve
Our Houston team brings sector-specific experience to every engagement — not just general MEP capability. The industries below represent the project types most active in Greater Houston, and each one carries its own engineering requirements, code considerations, and performance standards.- Healthcare: The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical complex in the world, and the broader Houston healthcare market extends across dozens of hospital systems, outpatient facilities, surgery centers, and specialty clinics throughout the region. MEP systems for these facilities must meet exacting standards for pressurization, ventilation classification, redundancy, and infection control. Our Houston healthcare MEP practice has the regulatory depth and design experience those projects demand.
- Hospital MEP: Large inpatient hospital facilities require a level of MEP design complexity that sets them apart from other healthcare project types — emergency power, medical gas systems, critical environment pressurization, and life safety coordination throughout. Our Houston hospital MEP team is experienced with the full scope of acute care facility requirements.
- Higher Education: Houston is home to the University of Houston, Rice University, Texas Southern University, and a network of community colleges and technical institutions, all with active construction and renovation programs. We design MEP systems for academic buildings, research labs, student housing, and campus infrastructure with an understanding of the operational and code requirements unique to higher education environments.
- University MEP: Large university campuses present unique MEP coordination challenges — aging infrastructure, phased construction, occupied buildings, and complex utility interconnections. Our Houston university MEP team has experience navigating all of it, from individual building projects to campus-wide infrastructure programs.
- K-12 Education: Houston-area school districts — HISD, Katy ISD, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Spring Branch ISD, and others — are among the largest and most active in Texas. We design MEP systems for new campuses, additions, and renovations, with deep experience on bond-funded programs where schedule, budget, and public accountability all matter. Our Houston K-12 MEP practice is purpose-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 without the full complexity of an acute care hospital. Our Houston medical MEP practice covers this full range of facility types across the Greater Houston region.
- Municipal and Government: City and county facilities, public safety buildings, recreation centers, and community infrastructure across Harris County and the surrounding municipalities require reliable, long-lasting MEP systems built for code compliance and operational durability. We’ve delivered municipal MEP projects across Texas and bring that institutional experience to Houston-area public-sector work.
- Industrial: Manufacturing plants, distribution centers, processing facilities, and energy-related industrial buildings throughout Greater Houston require MEP systems designed for operational intensity and process-specific demands. Our industrial MEP practice brings the engineering depth those projects require.
A Dedicated Houston MEP Team — Not a Remote Operation
Cleary Zimmermann’s Houston office is located at 13501 Katy Freeway, Suite 1250. This is a fully staffed office, not a mailing address — our Houston engineers are embedded in the local design and construction community, working alongside the architects, contractors, and owners who build here every day. Miles Nommensen, PE, leads our Houston market. He brings broad experience across the project types most active in this region and stays directly involved in project delivery from design through construction closeout. Our leadership team doesn’t hand off and disappear after design documents are issued — we stay engaged through construction administration, submittal review, and site observation to make sure design intent is carried through to the finished building. Houston is our largest market outside of San Antonio, and we’ve invested accordingly. Our team depth here allows us to take on large, complex projects — multi-building healthcare campuses, district-wide school programs, university infrastructure work — while maintaining the responsiveness and communication that smaller projects require. That’s the balance a statewide firm with genuine local presence can offer.Start Your Houston Project With Cleary Zimmermann
Whether you’re working on a healthcare campus, a school district bond program, a university building, an industrial facility, or a commercial development anywhere in Greater Houston, our 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 humidity strategy through construction closeout and commissioning.
Contact Cleary Zimmermann to connect with our Houston 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.
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Houston MEP Engineering — Frequently Asked Questions
What makes MEP engineering in Houston different from other Texas markets?
Houston’s climate creates MEP design challenges that don’t apply in most other Texas cities. Extreme heat combined with high humidity means mechanical systems must be sized for both sensible and latent cooling loads, and dehumidification strategies need to be integrated from the start of design. Plumbing and drainage systems must also account for Houston’s extraordinary rainfall intensity — the city has experienced multiple 500-year flood events in recent years, and drainage design that would be adequate elsewhere can be completely overwhelmed here. Equipment selection, corrosion resistance, and building envelope coordination all look different in the Gulf Coast environment.
Does Cleary Zimmermann have a Houston office?
Yes. Cleary Zimmermann Engineers maintains a full-service Houston office at 13501 Katy Freeway, Suite 1250, Houston, TX 77079. The office is staffed with engineers and project managers working on Greater Houston projects — not a remote team operating from another city. You can reach the Houston office directly at (281) 784-9400.
What industries does your Houston MEP team specialize in?
Our Houston team has deep experience in healthcare (including Texas Medical Center-area facilities), K-12 education, higher education, industrial and energy-related facilities, municipal buildings, and commercial construction. Houston’s position as a major healthcare hub and the energy capital of the country means we’ve designed systems for some of the most technically demanding building types in the state.
Does Cleary Zimmermann handle industrial MEP projects in Houston?
Yes. Cleary Zimmermann provides industrial MEP engineering services in Houston alongside our building MEP practice. Houston’s industrial sector — petrochemical, energy, manufacturing, distribution — requires MEP engineering designed for process-specific demands, hazardous area classifications, and operational continuity requirements that go well beyond standard commercial design. Our industrial practice is built specifically for those environments.
What Houston-area school districts has Cleary Zimmermann worked with?
Our Houston K-12 MEP team has experience working with school districts across Greater Houston, including projects in HISD, Katy ISD, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Spring Branch ISD, and other districts in Harris County and surrounding areas. We design MEP systems for new campuses, additions, renovations, and bond-funded programs across the full range of K-12 facility types.
When in the project timeline should I engage an MEP engineer in Houston?
The earlier, the better — and this is especially true in Houston. The region’s climate and drainage requirements mean that MEP decisions made early in schematic design have a significant impact on building layout, structural coordination, and energy performance. Engaging MEP engineering concurrent with early architectural design allows us to influence those decisions when they’re still easy to make, rather than working around a building layout that wasn’t designed with MEP systems in mind.
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