Advisory & Research

You need defensible climate analysis. You don’t need a full-time climate scientist.

Degree Day provides PhD-level climate expertise embedded in your project teams — white-label or named subconsultant — delivering analysis your clients can trust without the overhead of permanent headcount.

When to Use Us

You should talk to us if:

• Climate vendors produce conflicting results and you need independent reconciliation
• RFP requires climate methodology but you lack in-house QA capacity
• Project needs site-specific analysis beyond off-the-shelf data platforms
• Client questions your climate assumptions and you need technical backup
• Proposal deadline is tight and you need credible climate content fast

What You Gain

Reduced Risk

Your deliverables withstand client scrutiny, regulatory review, and third-party audit. No exposure from unvetted climate claims.

Lower Burden

No recruiting, onboarding, or managing climate staff. No subscription costs for platforms you use twice a year. Just call when you need expertise.

Faster Delivery

Former climate lead at WSP/Arup/Ramboll who speaks engineering language. No translation layer between climate science and your deliverables.

Better Win Rate

Credible climate methodology in proposals. Technical content that differentiates your response. Delivery support if you win.

Ways to Engage with Us

Sub-consulting

Embedded in your project team as white-label or named expert. Climate analysis integrated directly into your client deliverables. (Degree Day is registered small business at State and Federal levels.)

Technical Review & Validation

Independent QA when vendor results conflict or client challenges assumptions. Expert opinion you can cite.

Proposal & Bid Support

Climate methodology development for RFPs. Technical content that wins work. Delivery support post-award.

On-Call Advisory

Retainer or ad-hoc access. Fractional climate scientist for your team without full-time hire.

Custom Analysis

Deep technical work requiring specialized expertise: compound hazards, extreme value statistics, scenario development beyond standard datasets.

Why Firms Choose Us

We understand engineering workflows

Former climate lead and engineer at WSP, Arup, and Ramboll — meaning we know how climate fits into infrastructure projects and won’t slow down your delivery schedule with academic tangents.

We deliver in formats you use

Design values, load calculations, specification language — not academic papers. Your team can drop our analysis directly into existing workflows without translation.

Our work is defensible

PhD-level rigor. When your client or regulator questions climate assumptions, you have expert backup that withstands scrutiny.

We scale to project needs

Technical memo to comprehensive risk chapter. Two weeks to six months. You pay for what the project requires, not maintaining year-round capacity you occasionally need.

Representative Project Experience

Data Center Climate Risk

• Portfolio vulnerability assessment
• Regional network resilience modeling
• Coastal flood hazard analysis
• Cooling system design for future climate

Electric Utility & Energy

• Transformer failure analysis
• Natural gas infrastructure exposure assessment
• Electric grid vulnerability modeling
• Campus energy decarbonization resilience

Transportation Infrastructure

• Federal resilience grant support
• Transit system multi-hazard assessment
• Climate-adjusted flood mapping
• Port electrification risk assessment

Real Estate & Development

• Manufacturing campus hazard evaluation
• Global portfolio screening tools
• Hotel sea-level rise assessment
• Multi-hazard facility resilience planning

Government & Military

• Military installation adaptation planning
• Superfund site climate compliance
• Municipal winter storm assessment

Economic & Strategic Analysis

• National climate economic impact study
• Climate financial disclosure support
• Benefit-cost analysis for infrastructure investments