Altura helps clients navigate the complex journey to smart buildings through a pioneering approach to Systems Planning, Analytics and Integration that delivers proven business value and occupant delight.
Altura is a new breed of engineering consulting firm, delivering everything it takes to guide owners to realizing climate & carbon goals by maximizing building performance. Clients describe working with Altura as “transforming the way we deliver projects”, “taking the pain and confusion out of the smart building systems delivery process”, and “delivering an integrated commissioning and systems integrator process that actually delivers business value”.
In the planning phase, our involvement takes the form of decarbonization roadmaps and building automation standards. During design, Altura takes ownership for defining the building controls strategy and establishing performance-based systems acceptance criteria. In the construction phase, we leverage our groundbreaking data analytics platform to transform MEP systems delivery, enable connected commissioning, and build automation software that delivers best-in-class occupant and operator experiences. During the critical operations and maintenance phase, Altura weaves targeted data analytics processes into your organizational workflows to ensure persistent value and achievement of long-term carbon goals.
Northern Arizona University faced retiring tradespeople and 6,000+ scattered building documents, so the team used generative AI to extract system relationships and organize them into a searchable knowledge graph. The result: faster onboarding and less reliance on tribal knowledge.
CannonDesign watched a BAS access quote climb from $66K to $100K, then brought in an MSI to review the architecture and cut it to $29K.
Northern Arizona University’s CIO realized that aggregating IoT data wasn’t the hard part; relational context was. After choosing buy over build, the team moved from raw BACnet feeds to ontology-driven HVAC control, achieving 30% energy savings.
At LAX, environmental reporting once meant field visits, clipboards, and emailed meter photos. The airport is now connecting 1.2M+ data points and normalizing what already exists to improve compliance and create new sustainability opportunities.
Lincoln Property Company’s Chris Lelle realized that burdened engineers can’t each manage 300,000 sq ft by diving deep into BAS data—so he used FDD to simplify the troubleshooting his techs need to do.
CannonDesign added smart building scope to their office after bids were in, and Div 23/26 partners didn’t understand what “IDL” meant to their scope. They had to redraw Division 25 boundaries and clarify responsibilities to prevent the job from slipping.
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