Services

Energy Audits & Implementation

As a private building owner, you know that your utility bill is your largest operating cost, often accounting for more than 40% of all of your building operating costs.

As a municipal building owner, you know that your building’s operating costs are 50% of the total 40 year life cycle cost of your building.

Mixed use buildings are complicated mini-ecosystems. They have multiple, interactive systems, competing usage demands, changing occupancy requirements and of course, seasonal climate conditions.

Through an energy audit we evaluate “what is”, and through our analysis, research and recommendations, show you “what can be”. You get thorough research and a detailed report, grounded in reality, complete with costs, savings and ROI for each recommendation, and sample specifications of any recommended equipment.

As a follow-on step, we can also work with you to develop an implementation strategy that folds into your multi-year budget, business and operating plans. It will include your local Utility Provider’s incentives and/or match funding, define scopes of work and can go as far as soliciting qualified contractors to perform the recommended retrofits.

Services

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Retro-Commissioning
An RCx hospital project resulted in significant reduction in heating and cooling outside air after diagnosing and repairing defective actuators and inefficient control sequences.
Commercial Audits
Commercial Energy Audits
ASHRAE Level 1, 2 & 3 and Investment Grade Audits. Benchmark and audit your building to provide costs, savings and paybacks to help determine which improvements make the most sense.
Portfolio Analysis
Help multiple-building owners like tribes, municipalities and commercial property managers decide where to point efficiency efforts and funding.
Feasibility Studies
Does Combined Heat and Power (CHP) make sense for your facility? A district heating loop? Conversion from oil to natural gas? Should we build more single family or multi-family housing?
fishing vessel audits
Fishing Vessel Energy Audits
Provies the information you need to apply for USDA REAP grants for vessel upgrades like adding or upgrading an RSW system and fish hold zoning and insulation
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Energy Audits for Grant Funding
Provide you with the energy audits required to support your grant applications.
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Whole-Village Energy Efficiency
Develop strategies, perform audits and assist the implementation of energy reduction throughout entire communities.

Areas of Specific Experience

Scope Development

After you decide which upgrades to implement, we can create scopes of work and help with the pre-bid walk-throughs required to obtain viable fixed bids from contractors.

Cold Regions Energy Audits
Cold Regions Energy Audits
Having performed more than 400 energy audits in Alaska from the Aleutians to the Southeast to the North Slope, we know what it takes to reduce your energy consumption and costs in the Arctic.
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Schools

We’ve reduced energy consumption in schools in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

Maintenance & Repair Shops
Large overhead doors, trucks and busses moving in and out, air handling and exhaust management are some of the energy-related issues we’ve solved in these facilities.
Warehouse & Storage

Energy efficient lighting is a typical recommendation in large warehouses and storage facilities.

Manufacturing & Industrial

Heavy process loads like heating and refrigeration are candidates for heat recovery and more efficient compressors and elimination of air system leaks typically produce large energy savings.

remote energy audits
Remote Locations & Villages

We’ve performed audits in more than 50 rural and remote communities.. We know how to address the unique challenges these outlying communities face including a lack of resources and parts.

swimming pool audits
Pools, Arenas & Centers
Pools and ice arenas are huge energy consumers; some of our recommendations have been heat recovery, efficient refrigeration and dehumidification.
Office, Retail & Mixed Use
Our recommendations have reduced energy consumption anywhere from 10% to 40% in these buildings.
Senior Centers & Assisted Living
With round the clock occupancy, in-house commercial kitchens and laundry facilities, these buildings have many areas of potential savings and we find them all.
Multi-unit Dwellings
We’ve saved landlords money in common areas and with heating, lighting and water consumption when they’re paying for utilities.
Marine Vessels
We have performed energy audits enabling dozens of commercial fishing vessel owners to obtain energy efficiency grants to add RSW systems, fish hold insulation and more.