Sain Engineering Associates, Inc.

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SEA offers a wide array of services and products that help our clients conserve energy, reduce costs and manage their resources more effectively.  SEA provides energy conservation engineering services from initial energy audits which identify low-cost and no-cost improvements to investment-grade audits which identify cost effective capital investment projects.  SEA also provides advanced utility metering and other technical services to help clients achieve the goals mandated by federal law, Executive Order and regulations..

The following outline describes our array of services. We can also provide customized solutions for your resource management needs.

  • Resource Efficiency Management (REM) - provide full-time, on-site energy professional whose primary focus is to facilitate an energy and water program to achieve the site’s conservation goals and cost savings.  Services provided by the REM includes onsite analysis of current operations, equipment, and energy purchasing patterns, energy awareness campaigns, and low and no cost energy efficiency improvements. [link to REM section of website]
  • Metering Services - provide a full range of metering solutions that allows the specified locations to understand load profiles; manage demand; allocate costs to tenants, regions, facilities, etc.; reduce consumption; negotiate with suppliers; as well as measurement and verification of  improvements from energy conservation projects.
  • Energy Audit Services – Energy Audits – develop, execute and report on 10-year audit plans and/or perform energy audit services.  Audits shall include data collection, data analysis, benchmarking with tools such as Energy Star, and written recommendations of suggested upgrades of electrical and mechanical infrastructure, including their impact on energy consumption and pollution.
  • Energy Planning and Strategies - develop, execute, and report agency implementation plan activities pursuant to all federal laws, executive orders, regulations and agency policies and guidelines.
  • Energy Choice Analysis - provide equipment and/or audit software and training to enable evaluation of various energy choices. Service may include analysis of advantages and disadvantages of choices for reducing energy consumption including cost, financing and payback.
  • Risk Management - provide equipment and/or software and training on risk management to minimize various levels of price uncertainty for energy purchases.
  • Billing and Management Oversight - provide billing services that may include, but are not limited to, verifying and correcting past utility bills, correcting over-billing, analyzing consumption and costs, forecasting energy usage, recommending the best rate structure and reducing administrative costs through payment of a single bill.
  • Preparing agency statements of work - assist agencies in preparing statements of work for energy management projects. This includes performance management, and benchmarking /performance diagnostics; organizational design of the statement of work, and compliance with legislative and executive order requirements such as achieving Energy Star criteria, where applicable.
  • Use of Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources - describe options for use of alternative/renewable energy sources, including converting to use of different sources of energy, alternative off-site storage and management, alternative and stand-by fuel pricing. This information shall include a statement concerning specific environmental benefits and estimates of cost savings.
  • Building Commissioning Services - comprehensive building commissioning services on new construction, major modernization, and existing energy consuming operations (recommissioning).

Other services provided by SEA

    

Energy Engineering

  • life-cycle costing
  • energy procurement
  • alternative financing
  • lighting systems efficiency
  • HVAC systems efficiency
  • building envelope
  • water conservation
  • sustainable design
  • renewable energy systems
  • steam systems
  • industrial process systems
  • emerging technologies
  • technology transfer
  • distributed generation
  • combined heat and power
  • operations and maintenance
  • measurement & verification
  • investment-grade facility audits
  • energy management & control systems
  • LEED and Energy Star rating oversight

Fuel Procurement Consulting

  • Fuel Cost Analysis
  • Competitive Solicitations
  • Negotiation Assistance
  • Privatization
  • Emissions Trading

Alternative Financing Consulting

  • Performance Contracting Proposal Review
  • Energy Savings Measurement & Verification
  • Expert Witness Testimony

Technical Training

  • Certified Energy Manager Training
  • Alternative Financing
  • Life-Cycle Costing
  • Energy Savings Measurement & Verification
  • Fuel Procurement

Types of Facilities

SEA personnel have worked on-site with several types of facilities throughout the United States, and internationally from Europe to Asia. This outline provides a basic perspective of the types of facilities with which we are most familiar.

Federal Government

  • Military (all types)
  • Medical
  • Administrative
  • Laboratory

Institutional

  • Healthcare (all types & sizes)
  • College/University
  • Schools

Commercial

  • Office
  • Retail

Industrial

  • Process
  • Distribution

Types of Clients

SEA has been privileged to work with numerous clients since our beginning in 1988. The following list communicates a general profile of our traditional clientele. Also displayed are logos of just a few of the organizations which we have been proud to serve.

  • Building Owners &/or Operators
  • Government Agencies
  • Utility Companies
  • Energy Service Companies
  • Lending Institutions

examples of sain clients

Projects

SEA has been fortunate to provide on-site technical assistance to numerous clients throughout the United States, including Puerto Rico and Hawaii (several projects). Additionally, SEA has served in the same on-site capacity to international clients in Europe, the Caribbean Region, Asia, and South Africa. The following projects are examples of the exceptional work that SEA has provided clients over the past 15 years.

Project List