Meet Our Distinguished Team
David Meyers, AIA, CxA, PMP
Director
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Brian Schwartz, CxA, CCP, LEED
Operations Manager
Federal Cx
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Tanya Martella
Business Development Manager
Carl Poettker, PE, CxA
Design-Build and Field Cx
MEP Coordination & Aviation Cx
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George Hawkinson
Building Automation Systems
Ongoing Cx & BACnet Controls
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David Meyers, AIA, CxA, PMP
Director
Brian Schwartz, CxA, CCP, LEED
Operations Manager
Federal Cx
Carl Poettker, PE, CxA
Design-Build and Field Commissioning
MEP Coordination & Aviation Cx
George Hawkinson
Commissioning Manager
Ongoing Cx & BACnet Controls
CORE PRINCIPLES
- Safety is First: Our staff prioritizes safety of both new and existing facilities during project work. This unwavering commitment to safety is ingrained in us, making us personally accountable to colleagues, clients, families, communities, and ourselves. This is evident in our proactive approach to creating a safe testing environment before conducting functional tests on equipment.
- Client Service Drives Our Success: Our dedicated staff, comprised of results-focused individuals, consistently works towards enhancing the customer experience by thinking strategically from project inception to completion. With clients viewed as valued partners and friends, our unwavering dedication and responsiveness confirm that we go the extra mile, putting in the necessary hours to help them complete projects on time. We know schedules may get pushed during testing and we proactively work to make sure the right staff are available for your project.
- What We Do Matters: Amidst tackling some of the world's most challenging problems, we recognize the immense responsibility and opportunity to collaborate with clients, aiming to enhance the global quality of life through our work. Working on intricate projects, from US Department of State, top universities, hospitals to unique endeavors like the U.S. Department of Energy Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) Near Site Conventional Facilities (NSCF) at Fermilab, our commissioning team confirms that these facilities operate precisely as intended by the client.
- We Boldly Go: At Burns & McDonnell, the entrepreneurial spirit propels us forward with a strategic vision that benefits all stakeholders. Committed to unyielding integrity, our team, whether working for a building owner, general contractor, or design-build team, persists until systems function precisely as envisioned. Inspired by the daring and caring example of our entrepreneurial founders, we continue to move forward with vision, courage, and precision, advancing their dreams for the collective benefit of all.
- We Are All Employee-Owners: Working with our team means engaging with personalized and dedicated members who embody a shop-owner mentality, combining the responsiveness of a close-knit team with vast resources and experience. This commitment to employee ownership serves as the common thread that binds us, fostering accountability, hard work and ambitious thinking for the collective success of our projects. From a commissioning perspective, the customer experience offered is that of a small firm with resources of a large global company.
CLIENTS AND INDUSTRIES WE SERVE
SERVICES
NEW BUILDING CxWe help you verify that buildings will function as you envision. Our Cx experience combined with the numerous Cx guidelines we follow (e.g., ASHRAE, LEED, ISPE, PECI, NIBS, NEBB, BCA, ACG, etc.) will give you the confidence that our technical approach will match your needs, technology, complexity and budget while providing program-level uniformity and standardization.
EXISTING BUILDING Cx, ENERGY AUDITS, RETRO-CxDue to the deterioration of buildings over time, we aim to optimize each facility's operation through our existing building commissioning, energy audits and retro-commissioning services.
BUILDING ENCLOSURE CxOur building enclosure Cx (BECx) consulting group can help you mitigate risk by creating a quality assurance process that reviews and documents the performance of a building’s enclosure. We follow industry guidelines — such as ASTM E 2183, NIBS Guideline 3 and ASHRAE Guideline 0, along with documents such as the enclosure design guide for federal office buildings, thermal integrity and airtightness NISTIR 4821 — to help us create a risk avoidance program.
BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMSOur controls group help our clients mitigate the challenges of implementing and integrating an enterprisewide facility management solution. By utilizing the BACnet communication protocol, we deliver high-performance environments that provide the essential command and control of facility assets and capture day-to-day energy and equipment performance data to execute proactive and effective facility management practices. We follow the ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135 and utilize the BACnet protocol and BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC) to securely bridge the communication gap of disparate building systems.
CONDITION ASSESSMENTSIt is important to keep your aging facility’s systems maintained regularly and operating efficiently. With understanding of the overall objectives of the facility, our infrastructure condition assessments include identifying and documenting current facility condition and deficiencies, recommending corrections for the deficiencies, providing cost estimates for corrections, forecasting future long-term capital renewal costs, providing/hosting information in a cloud-based server either on- or off-site, and providing equipment inventory and bar coding.
Cx PROGRAM MANAGEMENTOur Cx program management approach streamlines project-related processes, resources and methodologies. We also monitor and control projects by meeting program goals through document, schedule, cost and quality control.
PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE WRITINGWe develop preventative maintenance and continuous Cx procedures to align with our clients’ philosophy and resources. Our Cx specialists develop this custom process by interviewing the owner’s staff to understand essential needs and current behaviors. Our job plans cover various asset types, maintenance trades and recommended frequency intervals. The job plans equip the maintenance staff with a simple process and procedures to evaluate, maintain and restore optimum performance of the building systems.
MONITORING-BASED Cx AND MEASUREMENT VERIFICATIONSWe can optimize your operations and maintenance practices by integrating three components: permanent energy monitoring systems, energy analysis, and ongoing Cx. This analysis provides real-time equipment performance information to your facility operators. You can track energy consumption, detect faulty equipment operation and identify unusual energy or power consumption patterns as they occur.
FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICSOur fault detection and diagnostics software collects a large amount of data from a facility and can be customized to provide the facility management team key insights that can improve your facility’s energy efficiency, comfort and reliability. Our team analyzes the data and provides you with upfront planning, hardware/software implementation and results verification services.
David Meyers, AIA, CxA, PMP
Director