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Derive Engineers is a multidisciplinary consulting engineering firm of skilled, passionate and experienced people. The Derive team seeks to balance the rational pursuit of the engineering solution with the openness to serendipitous opportunity in support of the best design solution for our clients. Together we engineer the design journey.
Approach
Our collective prides itself on our highly customized design response feedback loops based on iterative analysis meshed with empirical data to create an open dialog with our clients and fellow designers.
Design Services
Derive Engineers understands that we are living in a world with finite resources and advocates responsible environmental design decisions to support our client’s sustainability goals within all our service offerings.
We offer the following design services:




Derive Engineers sees the provision of integrated MEP design services as a journey of exploration in the pursuit of the ideal solution for each and every one of our clients.
Derive Engineers was founded to provide innovative engineering design solutions for the built environment through detailed analysis and design team dialogue. The partnership brings together over 45 years of world-class MEP building service engineering experience from around the globe through their prior careers with BuroHappold Engineering.
Niall Cooper
Bob Kearns, P. E.
Michael Huang, P. E.
Derive Engineers’ portfolio of experience spans across key Past Projects as well as numerous Current Projects underway in our studio spanning the Cultural, Educational, Commercial and Residential sectors.
Current Projects

Additional Current Projects:
Pearson Street Condominiums; Long Island City, NY USA – Marvel Architects
21 Greenwich Avenue; New York, NY USA – BKSK Architects
Gillen Brewer School; New York, NY USA – MBB Architects
30 Thompson Street; New York, NY USA – Rogers Architects
Houston Fire Museum; Houston, TX USA – Clayton Fry Architects
Past Projects
The following are select projects completed by our team. Please note, projects completed prior to 2017 were designed while at BuroHappold.
If you are interested in learning more about Derive Engineers, please email us at contactus@deriveengineers.com
Join Our Team
Derive Engineers is a growing organization that is always searching for motivated individuals that are looking for an engaging career in engineering.
Full Time
Below is a list of current full time openings in our New York office.
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Electrical Engineer II
Internships
We are looking for interested candidates for mechanical, electrical and plumbing / fire protection engineering interns in Summer 2022! Please see Derive Engineers’ HandShake page for details or reach us via email below.
If you are interested in learning more about career opportunities with our team, please email us at careers@deriveengineers.com.