Sealed MEP design. 14 states. Permit in your hands.
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering for restaurants, medical, hotels, retail, and tenant finish-out. Sealed drawings — quote in 1 business day.
Licensed across 14 states
PE-stamped MEP for permit submittal. We seal in:
What we do
Sealed MEP for permit submittal. Same engineering team from concept through CA. No fire alarm or sprinkler design (vendor / FPE scope).
Mechanical / HVAC
Manual N load calcs, equipment selection, ductwork, ASHRAE 62.1 outdoor air, kitchen exhaust, refrigeration, energy compliance per IECC.
Electrical
NEC 220 service-demand calcs, panel schedules, lighting and photometric, low-voltage / IT rough-in, EV charging, generator coordination.
Plumbing
Sanitary and domestic water, NFPA 54 gas pipe sizing, IPC fixture counts, grease interceptors with local AHJ multipliers, medical gas (NFPA 99).
Free MEP calculators
Quick code-minimum sanity checks for the things engineers actually look up daily. No login, no email, no nag.
Recent projects
Real technical fingerprints. Anonymized for client confidentiality.
High-Performance Pickleball Court ComplexMulti-court indoor venue with HVAC + ventilation for clear-span volume. Sealed for permit.
503B Pharma Compounding FacilityUSP 797/800 cleanroom MEP. Pressure cascade, HEPA-filtered air handlers, dedicated chases.
185 Sam Houston Hotel — PACE RetrofitHistoric landmark. PACE-compliant MEP upgrades. Energy modeling for incentive qualification.
20,000 sf Modular Breakroom — IMCMEP for high-tech manufacturing campus. Delivered fast against an aggressive schedule.
Charm Dental — Multi-Suite ClinicDental clinic MEP including air exchange, plumbing for chair lines, and panelboard sizing.
Production Bakery — Full MEPFood production facility. HVAC, plumbing, electrical for ovens, mixers, and packaging line.Texas market coverage
Permit-ready MEP across the major Texas markets. Local AHJ familiarity.
“Pyra delivered sealed MEP for our food production facility on a tight permit deadline. Drawings cleared first review with the AHJ.”
What 374 Texas Projects Tell Us About Commercial MEP
Cost benchmarks, project mix, and the top 5 things that delay TX commercial permits. Pulled from 374 anonymized Pyra projects. Free PDF, sent to your inbox.
Permit on the table? We move fast.
Sealed MEP design with 1-business-day quote turnaround. MBE/HUB-certified for prime + sub work. Licensed in 14 states.
What “sealed MEP engineering” means for your project
Every commercial building permit application in Texas — and in the 13 other states where Pyra Engineering is licensed — requires a set of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing drawings stamped and signed by a Professional Engineer. That stamp is what lets a building department accept the drawings as code-compliant. We seal in Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Utah, and Wisconsin. If your project is in one of those states, Pyra can deliver a fully sealed drawing set without you having to hire a separate engineer of record.
MEP engineering services we provide
Mechanical engineering (HVAC + ventilation)
Cooling and heating load calculations, equipment selection, duct layouts, kitchen exhaust per IMC 507.13.1 and NFPA 96, ventilation per ASHRAE 62.1 (commercial) and ASHRAE 170 (medical), and energy code compliance per ASHRAE 90.1 and the Texas Energy Code. We seal HVAC drawings for restaurants, medical and dental clinics, multifamily, hospitality, industrial, retail tenant improvements, and ground-up commercial construction.
Electrical engineering
Power distribution, panel schedules, transformer sizing per NEC 450, service-demand calculations per NEC 220, lighting design, emergency/egress lighting per NFPA 101, and low-voltage coordination. We do not perform fire alarm design — that’s a separate scope handled by a licensed fire alarm contractor and we’ll coordinate with whoever you hire.
Plumbing engineering
Water supply and sanitary drainage, gas piping per NFPA 54, fixture-count compliance per IPC 422.1 and IPC 403.2.1 (including family / assisted-use rooms), grease interceptor sizing per UPC, and Texas Accessibility Standards (TAS). We do not perform fire sprinkler design — that’s a fire protection contractor scope, and we coordinate routing with them on your behalf.
Sectors we work in
Restaurants & food service: Kitchen exhaust calcs, gas piping per NFPA 54, grease interceptor sizing, equipment electrical loads. We’ve sealed drawings for QSR chains, full-service restaurants, ghost kitchens, and food production facilities.
Medical, dental, and 503B compounding: ASHRAE 170 pressure relationships, USP 797 / USP 800 compounding rooms, dental suite plumbing and dedicated electrical, healthcare ventilation. Compliant with TDLR and HHSC requirements where applicable.
Multifamily & hospitality: Building-wide MEP for apartment communities, hotels, and PACE-financed adaptive reuse projects. Familiar with the Texas Multifamily Sustainable Energy Code and PACE program documentation requirements.
Industrial & production: Process exhaust, machine power, water/wastewater coordination, transformer sizing for industrial loads. Bakery, light manufacturing, warehouse with conditioned office space.
Retail tenant improvement & ground-up commercial: Big-box and small-shop TI, mixed-use ground-up, and pad-site commercial construction.
Why architects, GCs, and owners hire Pyra
1-business-day quote turnaround on standard scope. Most engineering firms quote in 3–5 days; we quote in 1.
Permit-ready drawings. Our sealed drawings are designed to clear AHJ review on first or second submittal — we know the local code interpretations in Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and the Texas cities most commonly involved.
MBE / HUB certified. Pyra is a State-of-Texas HUB-certified Minority Business Enterprise. If your project carries supplier-diversity requirements (federal, state, or owner-mandated), hiring Pyra contributes to MBE/HUB spend.
Sealed in 14 states. One engineering firm, one workflow, across most of the South, Southwest, Mountain West, and Midwest. Useful for multi-site rollouts.
Project portfolio. Over 374 commercial MEP projects sealed since 2021. See selected work on our projects page, and download our 2026 Texas Field Report for what those 374 projects taught us about commercial MEP in Texas.
Get a quote
Send us your floor plans, equipment cuts, and a few questions about scope. We’ll respond with a fixed-fee MEP engineering proposal in 1 business day. Call (713) 826-3979 or get in touch.