Building Commissioning for New Construction

To ensure that building systems are designed, built, and operated to meet your requirements.

Energy Management & Efficiency

Opportunities that improve building system functionality and save operating costs.

Retrocommissioning for Existing Buildings

The science of analyzing a building’s current performance and implementing measures to reduce the operating cost.

Rigorous. Client-focused. Best-in-class.

When you bring Cx Associates onto your team, you get world class engineering delivered by a small team of dedicated experts. We are a purpose-driven firm that helps our clients achieve better, more resilient and efficient buildings.

People. Planet. Prosperity.

Pre-Construction Design Review

Independent review of the design against your project’s requirements to identify savings, optimize systems, and reduce costs.

New Construction Commissioning

A quality assurance process to ensure that your project is designed, built, and operates to meet comfort and energy performance goals.

Retrocommissioning (RCx)

Analyzing a building's current performance to identify and implement measures to save energy, reduce operating costs, and improve system functionality.

Energy Management for Healthcare

Experience in energy, sustainability, and facility performance to understand the impacts of improvements, calculate energy reduction, and verify savings.

Education Facilities Performance

Integrating high-performance systems thinking and independent expertise to support designing, building, and maintaining efficient buildings.

Energy Efficiency Programs

Program impact studies through measurement-driven evaluations that determine energy and demand impacts as well as non-energy effects.

About Cx Associates

Ensuring building performance is our mission. We specialize in building commissioning, retro-commissioning, building system efficiency upgrades, and energy program design, verification, and evaluation. We find energy use reductions and cost savings where others don’t – we are serious about efficiency.

“Cx Associates’ independent design review resulted in both cost savings and more green alternatives for our expansion project. We were able to save$40,000 off the initial construction bids and meet project objectives including ongoing annual savings and a quiet energy conscious building.”

Jed Graef

Vermont Zen Center

"We appreciate that Cx Associates does a thorough analysis job, and then provides actionable measures that make sense, and bring results for the customer. This level of service is not easy to find just anywhere.”

Jake Yanulavich

Burlington Electric Department

"You guys are the greatest construction resource since the rechargeable drill. Thanks for your help."

Jeffrey P. Carlson

Sr. Project Manager at Engelberth Construction Inc.

"I appreciate Cx Associates’ ability to provide us with that extra set of eyes during the design review process. Cx Associates’ ability to dedicate their time and expertise is like an insurance policy for us. It gives me the confidence to know our design engineers have done an adequate job and that they haven’t missed anything. Investing ahead of time eliminates problems and additional costs during the project."

Wes Pooler

Director of Facilities, Univ. of Vermont Medical Center

Building Energy Resilience

How to Avoid Air Handling Unit Steam Coil Issues

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Many air handling units in colder climates are equipped with steam...

How to do Building Automation System (BAS) Graphics Right: Part II

Sep 17, 2020 by Rick Stehmeyer

In my previous post How to do BAS Graphics Right: Part I, I wrote about the 5 basic rules to BAS graphics I learned...

Common VRF Issues Part II: Controls

Aug 20, 2020 by Walker Calderwood

In my first blog on Common VRF (Variable Refrigerant Flow) Installation Issues I focused on issues during mechanical...