A small bench
of senior
engineers.

We don't have juniors. We don't have account managers. We have a roster of seven independent senior engineers — Certified Energy Managers, ISO 50001 lead auditors, mechanical PEs — who take on projects under the Low Carbon Guru name when the work matches their bench.

7 associatesActive roster
180+ yrsCombined practice
0Junior staff
0Account managers
01The bench

The people who actually do the work.

Each associate is named in your SOW. There is no "team of consultants" — you get the engineer below, on the day, on the phone.

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Ramon Cruz, PE

Founder · Lead engineer

23 years across power generation, industrial process heat and cold-chain. Ex-head of energy at a top-3 PH food manufacturer. Runs the Fractional CEM book.

CEM ISO 50001 LA CMVP PE Mech.
FOCUS: Industrial process · Cold chain
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Maria Aquino

Associate · ISO 50001 specialist

17 years. Built the EnMS at three PSE-listed manufacturers from gap analysis to certification. Trains internal auditor cohorts.

ISO 50001 LA ISO 14001 LA CEM
FOCUS: EnMS · Listed-co compliance
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JT

Jonas Tan, PE

Associate · Heat-pumps & refrigeration

22 years in industrial refrigeration and high-temp heat pumps. Specifies, doesn't sell. Has commissioned ammonia, CO₂ and HFO plants across SEA.

PE Mech. IIAR CEM
FOCUS: Refrigeration · Heat pumps
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Patricia Domingo

Associate · M&V & data

Engineer-turned-statistician. Builds the IPMVP regression models and EnPI dashboards. Will pick a fight about your normalisation variables.

CMVP CEM PgD Stats
FOCUS: M&V · Analytics
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Eduardo Villanueva

Associate · Buildings & HVAC

19 years. Hotels and BPO campuses, mostly. The chiller-plant whisperer; once cut a Makati hotel's bill 31% with no capex.

CEM ASHRAE BEAP
FOCUS: Hospitality · Commercial HVAC
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Sofia Lim

Associate · Carbon & SEC reporting

Built sustainability disclosure programmes for two PSE-listed groups. Knows where the SEC's 4-2019 has teeth and where it's still bark.

GRI Cert. GHG Inv. (WRI) CFA
FOCUS: Disclosure · Scope 3
02How the bench works

Different from a "network of consultants".

We're not a marketplace. Associates aren't subcontractors we mark up. Each is a co-principal: they vote on which work we take, they share margin on what they deliver, and they put their name in the SOW. If your project doesn't have an associate willing to own it, we won't sell it.

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Named, not pooled.

Your SOW lists the human doing the work. No "team of consultants" with a partner you'll never meet.

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No mark-up.

Associates set their own day rates. We add a transparent practice fee — disclosed on the SOW.

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Match by bench, not bandwidth.

If we don't have the right associate for your sector, we'll tell you and refer out — even though it costs us the engagement.

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Bench cap: 9.

We don't grow past nine associates. The senior-only constraint is the entire product.

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Annual peer review.

Each associate's work is reviewed by another every year. Findings are written down. We've removed people for it.

03Joining the bench

If you're a senior engineer
reading this carefully —

We open the bench when an associate retires or a sector gap opens. Currently we'd consider: a senior process engineer with food & bev experience, a buildings PE with hospital portfolios, or a sustainability lead with Scope 3 supply-chain reporting depth.

  • 15+ years' practice
  • CEM, ISO 50001 LA, or PE
  • Comfort with M&V to IPMVP
  • Independent, not on staff elsewhere
  • Will sign your name in the SOW