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.
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While utilities and policymakers promote “demand flexibility” as a simple way for buildings to cut costs and support the grid, the reality is far messier: siloed systems, manual playbooks, and misaligned incentives make coordination far harder than theory suggests. Emerging solutions—like aggregators handling grid relationships, automation providers standardizing control, and readiness assessments that reveal real system capabilities—are making progress, but success today comes from solving specific pieces of the puzzle rather than achieving full multi-system optimization.
Poor cellular coverage is the number one tenant complaint in many commercial buildings, and DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) is often proposed as the solution. But with costs ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, building owners need to understand what they're really getting. Our panel explores the critical questions every owner should ask before investing in DAS technology in our latest Nexus APAC building owner meetup.
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