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kW Link Helps Clients Craft Smart Building Solutions with Precision Engineering and Insightful Analytics for Sustainable Buildings

App Layer: FDD
App Layer: Energy Management

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.

Company bio

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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“The partnership with kW Engineering has been central to the successful launch of Intermountain Health’s Remote Operations Center. kW brought a level of experience that would have taken decades to develop internally yet their approach was flexible enough to cater custom solutions for our specific needs. Their integration of a SkySpark based analytics and reporting platform for our Remote Operations Center program is the most powerful and compelling deployment of such a system I have seen in my career. I am proud of what the group has accomplished over the past 18 months and excited to see what is in store over the coming years.”
Ross Snow, Director of Energy Management, Intermountain Health

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