Specialist climate risk expertise for engineering and consulting teams

You need defensible climate analysis.
You do not need a full-time climate scientist.

Degree Day works as an extension of your project team, a white-label or named subconsultant, helping you scope, review, defend, and deliver climate analysis your clients can trust.

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D.J. Rasmussen, PhD, founder of Degree Day
See it in action

Urban Heat Island Modeling

Global reanalysis like ERA5 blurs a whole city into a few coarse grid cells. Degree Day's Urban Heat Island modeling resolves the neighborhood-scale heat pattern that drives real exposure like the hot urban cores and waterfront gradients.

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Degree Day 1 km map of warm nights per year across the US Northeast, resolving hot urban cores, cooler parks, and waterfront gradients
Coarse ERA5 map of warm nights per year across the US Northeast, a blocky low-resolution field
ERA5 · 31 km · 1 km
Nights per year with air temperature above 68°F (20°C)

When to Use Us

You should talk to us when:

  • An RFP requires a defensible climate methodology and the proposal deadline is tight
  • Climate vendors produce conflicting results and you need independent reconciliation
  • A client challenges your climate assumptions and you need technical backup
  • A project requires site-specific analysis that off-the-shelf platforms cannot explain or justify
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What You Gain

Reduced Risk

Clear assumptions, traceable data sources, documented methods, and technical support when clients, regulators, or reviewers ask hard questions.

Lower Burden

No recruiting, onboarding, or managing specialized climate staff. No platform subscriptions for tools you may only use occasionally.

Faster Delivery

Senior climate support that can plug into engineering and consulting workflows quickly.

Stronger Proposals

Credible climate methodology, clearer technical language, and delivery support if you win.

Ways to Engage with Us

Embedded Subconsulting
Technical Review & Validation
Proposal & Bid Support
On-Call Advisory
Custom Climate Analysis

Why Firms Choose Degree Day

We understand engineering workflows

Experience supporting climate resilience work across major engineering and consulting environments.

We deliver in formats project teams can use

Design values, technical memos, load calculations, spec language, proposal content, risk chapters, and client-ready documentation.

Our work is defensible

Methods are documented, assumptions are explicit, limitations are clear, and results are built to withstand technical scrutiny.

We scale to the project

From a rapid proposal review to a full climate risk chapter, we provide the right level of support for the assignment.

Representative Project Experience

Degree Day brings experience across climate risk, resilience planning, infrastructure design, and applied climate analytics, including:

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

Get Climate Expertise on Your Next Project

Tell us what you are working on. We will let you know whether Degree Day can help and what level of support makes sense.

Degree Day carries professional liability (E&O) insurance, is registered in SAM.gov, and executes standard subconsultant, teaming, and NDA agreements, so we slot into your prime contract without procurement friction.

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