We find the waste in your commercial building, prove the savings on your own equipment, and install nothing until the number is real.
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That's the EPA's figure for the average commercial building.1 Most buildings have never had anyone qualified find out where theirs goes.
You've been pitched savings before, by someone selling a single product, with a payback chart from a different building. Saying no was the right call.
But the bill keeps arriving, and no building should pay, month after month, for energy that does nothing.
Most energy vendors carry one product, so every building gets the same answer. The case study they show you is a different building's prescription. Nobody in that model is paid to measure your building first, so the waste survives the upgrade.
That is the entire difference here: the measurement comes first, and the fix is chosen to match what it finds, from more than four dozen technologies.
The compressor is the loud hum on your roof, and it eats more than 80% of a cooling unit's electricity. A healthy one cycles: hum, rest, hum, rest. A saturated one hums straight through, buying electricity that makes nothing colder.
Hum, rest, hum. The rest is the sound of money staying yours.
The hum never stops. That's the waste, out loud.
Simulated audio, tuned to the pattern, not a recording. The real test costs five minutes standing next to your own unit — it's on page 2 of the worksheet, further down this page.
This company started from the same frustration: savings that only ever existed in the brochure. We didn't want to guess either, so we went and got the engineer national labs hired when a measurement had to be right the first time.
When the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense needed measurements right the first time, Sandia National Laboratories didn't put the contract out to bid. They handed it to Cliff Suljak.5
Energy savings is a measurement problem before it is an equipment problem. He runs the measurement on your building, on your side of the table.
Selected work · file 1 of 5 · hover to hold
Sandia National Laboratories · DOE / DOD
Sandia didn't put this contract out to bid. They awarded it directly to Cliff, then watched him assemble and direct a 22-person engineering team across facilities in Albuquerque, Livermore, Tonopah, and Kauai: hundreds of task orders completed under Star Wars Program infrastructure. When the DOE and DOD need structural integrity assured, they don't shop around.
Salt River Project · Arizona
As Manager of the Materials and Quality Services Division, Cliff created a complete quality control infrastructure for one of the Southwest's largest utilities: metallurgical lab, nondestructive testing, failure analysis, predictive vibration monitoring. The innovations he introduced on the $600M program were later adopted by utilities across the country.
York International · Los Angeles County Courts
After the Northridge earthquake threatened the world's largest thermal storage system at the LA County Courts facility, York International hired Cliff on a sole-source basis to fix it. He performed the seismic stability analysis, delivered litigation testimony against the county's own engineers and consultants, and prevailed. Then he designed, fabricated, and personally oversaw installation of the custom seismic restraint system.
UAE National Power Grid · Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Sharjah
What began as a reactive power loss engagement across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah grew into a full operational assessment of the UAE's power grid. Cliff mobilized in-country for extended periods, consulting directly to utility authorities on grid reliability. When a nation's infrastructure is the project, the margin for error is zero.
ASTM · Standards Committee · 8 years
For eight years Cliff served on the ASTM committee developing test methods for leading-edge materials diagnostics: advanced composites and ultra-high-strength metals in extreme temperature environments. The methods he helped develop were adopted as national industry acceptance criteria for utility procurement.
Prefer to watch? The whole method in a 6-minute film, below
The first two steps are what we call The Exam: a diagnosis of your bill and your building, proven before anything is proposed.
Your last 12 months of electric bills, and every page of them, not the summary. The full year shows your seasons, and the detail pages carry the rate schedule, demand charges, and 15-minute usage a real quote is built from. Add phone photos of the nameplate on each HVAC unit. Still one email, and no site visit to start.2
Two shortcuts, either works: most utility portals export all 12 months in one download, or a simple authorization lets us pull your usage data from the utility directly.2
Seven days of metering before the work, seven days after, on your own equipment, witnessed by anyone you choose: your engineer, your accountant, your sustainability reviewer. Recognized protocols on request.8
Keep what pays for itself, or walk away owing nothing.2
If we can't prove the savings, nothing is installed and you owe nothing.2
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Half a bill deserves a whole prescription. The Exam matches the fix to the equipment you actually run: what's right for a simple on/off compressor is wrong for an inverter system, and some heat should never reach your HVAC at all.
20–55%off the HVAC portion of your bill, combined, and we quote the floor, not the peak.1
For simple on/off compressors · the most common systems
Learns how your building runs and shuts the compressor off the moment it stops doing useful work, while the fan keeps delivering the stored cold.
15–30% less HVAC energy1
For aging units · any system type
The waste no wash can reach: compressor oil bakes onto the inside of the coil circuit, year after year. One refrigerant-side treatment lifts it off, for the life of the unit.
Recovers up to 36% of lost performance1, 12
For inverter-type systems
Not a solar panel: a solar thermal retrofit that captures the sun's heat directly and puts it to work for the compressor, changing where the energy comes from.
30–50% more efficient system1
For the building itself
Sprayed or membrane-applied where the diagnosis shows it pays, so the heat never reaches the equipment that would have fought it.
Blocks up to 18 degrees before it gets in1
For true end of life · the flagship replacement
When a unit truly reaches end of life, this is what replaces it: a frontier-class packaged unit with solar thermal built in, dropping into the same footprint.
IEER 31 · COP 6 · half or more off heating and cooling energy1
And phase one's own metering data is what sizes the deeper fixes later, conditioning, storage, controls, refrigeration: the path past 30%, opened by your numbers, never by a brochure.1
How we find the waste, prove it on your own equipment, and install only what pays for itself. The deep weeds live here, told plainly.
Metered results from the technologies we install, at the sites named, under their own conditions.1, 9 If a claim can't survive your accountant, we don't make it.
The ledger above is a live sample; hover to hold it still, click any entry for its context.
A manager finds us, an owner signs, a reviewer checks the math. This page is written to be forwarded.
Nothing breaks and nothing changes hands. The work happens on the units you already run, typically an afternoon each, with comfort held or improved.1, 12 Your incumbent HVAC contractor stays your contractor: we prefer to certify and work through them, not around them. Less compressor runtime and cleaner coils mean fewer breakdowns and fewer hot-room calls.
Seven days of metering before and after, per unit, witnessed by any third party you choose. Recognized protocols on request: IPMVP Option C, ASHRAE Guideline 14.8 The result is verified kWh you can carry straight into energy and emissions reporting, not a marketing claim.
Forward this page to the person whose yes you need next, or download the one-page version (PDF) to put on their desk. It was written for them too.
Two minutes, conservative by design. A model, not a quote; the exam confirms the real figure.1
The estimator + the 20-minute Self-Exam worksheet
Unlock the estimator and we'll include the worksheet: find your building's waste yourself with a bill, your phone, and a walk to the roof. Your email gets the worksheet and nothing else without asking.
Unlocked. Your worksheet: The 20-Minute Building Self-Exam (PDF). It's also on its way to your inbox.
The same waste that pads the bill runs through your equipment and wears it out years early. Replacing an aged-out RTU fleet runs $260K to $480K per property.1 None of that appears on any bill until the day it all does.
Fifteen minutes tells you whether your building qualifies. The diagnosis is on us.2
To Dan · (864) 777-0688
CEO + Founder
19 years connecting people, capital, and opportunity across 14+ industries. Former director of FDA-registered clinical trials. Works fee-for-performance.
Principal Engineering Advisor
20+ years in electrical engineering across design, commissioning, and project management, including LAX. Licensed PE, Title 24 and LEED qualified.
Strategic Account Manager
23+ years in technology leadership, sales, and consulting. Air Force veteran with major initiatives for Fortune 500 firms.
Partnerships & Business Development
25+ years leading P.E.P. & Associates, with partnerships from AT&T, Boeing, and NASA to the US Marine Corps and Navy.
International Market Development
A decade opening retail, commercial, and government channels in Mexican and South American markets.
