About

Who We Are

Our Background

Jim Fowler founded Energy Audits of Alaska, an Alaskan Corporation, to perform commercial energy audits in Alaska. A year later he started Global Energy Audits to perform the same work in the lower 48 states. Both companies perform benchmarking and ASHRAE Level 1, 2 and 3 and Investment Grade Energy Audits on commercial, industrial and municipal buildings and commercial fishing vessels. This is all we do. We’re not contractors, we don’t sell equipment or software and we’re not looking for an ESCO contract.

This singular focus allows us to minimize your utility costs, save you the most energy and optimize your building management – for both the short and long term. An energy audit is an essential step in reducing the energy costs and energy consumption of a building.

Our Scope of Work

Whether it’s a manufacturing facility, a school on Alaska’s north slope, a hockey rink, a warehouse, a mixed use commercial building, multi-unit dwelling, hotel or a municipal transit maintenance facility, we have the depth and breadth to evaluate, analyze and recommend ways to reduce your energy consumption and your operating costs.

As a building operator or owner, in today’s financial environment, your highest return on operating or investment capital is energy cost reduction. Where else can you get a 10%-50% annual return? As a municipal building owner we help you turn capital allocations into operating cash.

Reducing Energy Helps

If you’re a private building owner, this means more money in your pocket.
If you’re a municipal building owner, it means more of your budget goes toward your mission rather than into your buildings, and if you’re a building manager, it translates to increased earnings for your client.

OUR TEAM

Certified. Professional. Experienced.

James Fowler, PE, CEM, CBCP, CGBE

FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL

Jim Fowler has been a registered Professional Engineer in Mechanical Engineering for over 30 years and currently holds licenses in Washington and Alaska. He has additional certifications in Commercial Energy Auditing (CEA), Commercial Energy Manager (CEM) in Building Commissioning (CBCP) and as a Green Building Engineer (GBE) from the Association of Energy Engineers, and has Retro-Commissioning training through NEBB.

Over more than a decade, as the founder and principal of Energy Audits of Alaska and Global Energy Audits, he has performed over 500 Level 2, Level 3 and Investment Grade Energy audits on more than 5 million square feet of municipal, industrial and commercial buildings for municipalities and commercial building owners. He has deep experience in cold climate energy efficiency in remote locations including more than 40 native Alaskan villages across the State. Audited buildings have included schools, maintenance and repair shops, warehouses, commercial kitchens, office buildings, multi-family housing, swimming pools, ice arenas, waste and potable water treatment plants, health clinics, fishing vessels, municipal infrastructure and fire stations.

Fowler has also been on teams performing other energy efficiency projects including a co-generation study for the UMED district in Anchorage and the preliminary engineering study for a proposed power transmission line from Barrow to Atqasuk on the North Slope. Jim has been a landlord, has owned and operated two engineering and manufacturing businesses for 20 years and was a general contractor prior to shifting his focus to commercial and industrial energy efficiency in 2010. This background as a landlord, business owner, contractor and facilities manager provides the deep, broad “real world” perspective that shows up in his realistic, bottom-line oriented energy efficiency recommendations.

While many energy auditors perform audits as a sideline business, it is Fowler’s sole focus and full-time activity. While other auditors may perform 2 or 3 audits each year, Jim performs 50 or more; and because every building is unique, and every building brings with it a new set of technical and energy consumption issues, this level of activity brings you, as the client, a broad, deep perspective and a wealth of experience that few other auditor’s possess.

Fowler has 3 successful business start-ups, 2 acquisitions and 2 business sales across 4 industries involving combinations of private equity and debt. He has 16 years of experience in residential construction, has managed over 300 engineering and manufacturing projects ranging in size from 20 to 2000 man hours and has a combined 35 years of experience in engineering and manufacturing operations, finance and business management.

Jim has lived in a number of Alaskan towns, and currently resides in Anchorage.

Richard S. Armstrong, PE, CEM, CBCP, CGBE

COLLABORATORS & ASSOCIATES

After more than 30 years of design, engineering and implementation of mechanical and electrical systems in commercial and municipal buildings, Mr. Armstrong expanded into energy consulting. For the last 15 years Armstrong has performed energy audits, created and advised on public and private energy policy and conducted testing and research toward energy reduction.

As founder and principal of RSA Engineering, Armstrong engineered and oversaw implementation of all types of building systems including waste heat recovery, HVAC and electrical systems and lift and pump stations. In addition to performing energy audits on nearly every type of public and private building, Armstrong is also the National Science Foundation’s mechanical, electrical, and energy consultant for Antarctica, helping determine and reduce the continent’s annual fuel oil consumption.

Armstrong maintains professional engineering licenses in both Mechanical and Electrical engineering in Alaska, Washington, California and Hawaii.

PARTNERS

Energy Audits of Alaska and Global Energy Audits partner with Neudorfer Engineers, Inc. (NEI) to perform Retro-Commissioning in Alaska and the Lower 48 states. Bill Neudorfer was performing testing and balancing work in Alaska more than 30 years ago under his father, founder of NEI. Today NEI performs commissioning, retro-commissioning and testing and balancing work worldwide.