At kW Engineering, their goal is to empower your long-term success focusing on impactful, action-oriented, and results-driven solutions to meet your energy efficiency goals. Their proprietary platform, kW Link is an advanced energy information system (EIS) integrated with monitoring data, analytics, fault detection and diagnostics (FDD), real-time performance alerts, and reporting. However, it doesn’t stop there. It is also a one-stop shop for project management, managing and measuring goals, and communicating with your team. Powered by SkySpark, it can be installed on-premises or hosted in the cloud and seamlessly integrates with legacy or proprietary BAS or BMS.
Founded in 1998 by forward-thinking engineers, kW Engineering was established with the goal of becoming the leading technical experts in identifying opportunities to save energy and enhance their customer’s bottom lines in commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings. As a nationally certified Minority Business Enterprise, they have become a recognized leader in the energy industry, boasting a dedicated technical staff comprising over 55 energy engineers including 22 Licensed P.E.s and over 75 total staff. They offer a comprehensive suite of services to reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions while increasing reliability, resiliency, and comfort through energy efficiency, decarbonization, and smart building solutions.
Further illustrating their deep expertise in optimizing buildings, recent years have witnessed kW Engineering's emergence as a trailblazing provider of monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) services, underpinned by their innovative “kW Link” software, built on the SkySpark platform. This technology serves as their preferred building analytics software, offering an automated, data-driven approach for deep retro-commissioning of existing facilities and commissioning new construction projects. To date, they have deployed SkySpark across over 20 million square feet of buildings including 8 million square feet of hospital and healthcare facilities. kW Engineering collaborates with the nation’s top institutions, including cutting-edge technology firms, higher education campuses, municipalities, and hospitals.
EllisDon uses FDD to establish a lower baseline energy usage in their buildings at the time of construction.
Hannah Baker, engineer at Willow, walks through how DFW Airport built a CBM program that actually stuck, from training a non-technical QA team to triage thousands of faults, to graduating recurring issues into automated work orders, to tracking a single KPI called 'unsuccessfully actioned' that finally gave leadership visibility into whether closed work orders were actually fixing the problem.
Jose de Castro, CTO of Mapped, shows how one of the world's largest retailers moved restroom operations from schedule-based janitorial rounds to condition-based workflows by combining foot traffic sensors, flush counts, soap levels, and occupancy predictions into AI-summarized work orders that land directly in the existing CMMS, with no new dashboards or tools for technicians to learn.
Brad Dameron from the University of Iowa's Asset Optimization Team and Katie Rossman from Clockworks Analytics walk through how Iowa handles 3,500 faults per day without burying their maintenance shops, showing the exact triage, routing, and closeout workflow they built to turn fault detection into planned work orders that look and feel identical to every other work order in the system.
Tearle Whitson, VP of OT at Metronational and a 26-year facilities veteran, digs into the infrastructure layer that makes or breaks CBM programs—explaining why bad sensor data, uncalibrated instruments, and communication failures will undermine your fault detection before you ever get to triage, and how to build the 'building DNA' foundation that everything else depends on.
Travis Criner, Executive Director of FM Programs at CBRE, makes the case that the hardest part of condition-based maintenance isn't the technology—it's redesigning your maintenance workflows, from validating which PM tasks actually need to exist, to updating CMMS job plans, renegotiating third-party contracts, and deciding what to do with the technician capacity you free up.
James Dice introduces the Nexus Labs Condition-Based Maintenance Playbook, built from 50+ case studies, walking through why CBM is best understood as a layer on top of existing maintenance programs—not a replacement—and outlining the eight-step framework for setup, piloting, and rollout that the industry's leading building owners are using to reduce reactive work, extend asset life, and prove value to leadership.
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