ENERGY SERVICES

Boland leverages HVAC technologies and decarbonization solutions for the built environment to benefit the client and the planet.

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Deliver Value for Your Organization While Meeting Environmental Sustainability Commitments

Buildings account for approximately 39% of the United States' CO2 emissions. In a typical office building, HVAC accounts for 30-50% of the energy bill. Boland is your ideal building decarbonization partner because of our deep energy and HVAC knowledge, combined with our local knowledge of your unique building, people, and mission.

By taking on all aspects of an energy reduction initiative, Boland frees your organization to focus on the business at hand. We deliver individualized, right-sized, and forward-looking energy solutions, validating your successes and arming you with data throughout.

Improve efficiency while creating comfortable and attractive spaces

Maximize your long-term success and minimize overall investment

Prepare for regulations that address a changing energy landscape

Reduce energy costs along with your carbon footprint

Make impactful and scalable facility improvements

OUR CAPABILITIES

DECARBONIZATION

Lower your carbon footprint AND your operating costs

Whether policy, regulations, or your own ESG goals are motivating your building to change, Boland can help. Boland will work with you to create a comprehensive decarbonization plan, tailored to your unique building and business objectives, that meets your goals.

Decarbonization Planning: Our team of policy and incentive experts ensure forward-looking strategies that account for local regulations, timelines, and incentives to optimize affordability with your business objectives, schedule, and budget. We standardly calculate GHG reductions for every energy services project, encompassing everything from energy efficiency enhancements to refrigerant transition planning and beyond.

Energy Services Projects: Leverage cutting-edge product advancements, energy modeling, system design, installation feasibility, and long-term maintenance requirements to ensure sustained efficiency throughout the building's lifecycle, validated through ongoing monitoring and data verification.

Refrigerant Transition: Navigate refrigerant phase-down regulations, plan low GWP alternatives, ASHRAE 15 compliance, minimize the effects of refrigerant leaks, worry-free compliance with EPA Section 608, and explore refrigerant migration options.

Electrification: Our team can help you explore and implement electrified heating solutions, natural gas phase-out planning, and all-electric new construction.

Renewable & Energy Supply Services: Our partnership with Zentility ensures the best utility rate in deregulated markets. We can also help with carbon RECs and transitioning to a 100% renewable supply contract.

BEPS and Benchmarking Services: We'll ensure that your building achieves and maintains compliance over time as local, state, and federal regulations change. We assist with energy benchmarking and data verification as an Approved District Data Verifier, energy dashboard and analysis, and connected services for efficiency monitoring.

Financial Analysis & Services: Ensure lowest first-cost project possible by utilizing available incentives, rebates, tax credits or deductions, and/or formula or competitive grants to reduce your overall cost of ownership.

ENERGY SUPPLY & RENEWABLE ENERGY SERVICES

Take a proactive approach to buying energy

Depending on the geographic location of your building, you may have lower-cost options when it comes to energy procurement. Boland works with Zentility to take a proactive approach to buying energy and controlling costs. Zentility simplifies the energy purchasing process for any building through its easy-to-use digital procurement tools and streamlines utility expense data. Our team can also evaluate renewable procurement to help achieve decarbonization goals.

Benefits of Renewable Energy Services:
- Effectively manage your energy costs
- Identify money saving opportunities
- Support Scope 2 emission mandates
- Receive data-driven insights to guide decisions
- Streamline the end-to-end procurement process
- Organize energy documents, bills, and contracts

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CONSERVATION & OPTIMIZATION

The cheapest kWh of energy is the one that is never used

Building optimization is at the core of everything we do, throughout the life cycle of a building. Boland’s holistic approach to building design, construction, management, and modernization ensures efficient, smarter, more sustainable facilities.

Energy Baselining & Analysis, Monitoring, and Reporting: Boland meets you at your current stage in your energy journey. Our comprehensive range of energy solutions can assist you in maintaining progress towards your energy and carbon reduction objectives.
- Energy benchmarking services, including data verification as an Approved District Data Verifier
- Energy tracking & dashboard services
- Electric and gas metering and submetering
- Energy audits and modeling
- Retro-commissioning

Equipment & Building Management and Modernization: Asset planning, facility equipment evaluation, deferred maintenance, capital funding assessments and applications, planned migrations, ongoing optimizations that keep your facility from gaining inefficiencies, minimize total cost of ownership.

Connected & Cloud Services: 24/7/365 data trends stored in the cloud indefinitely, advanced analytics, remote services, monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx), alarm routing and triage, connectivity out-of-the-box.

Lighting Retrofits: Lighting audits and feasibility analysis, lighting upgrades, lighting controls, lighting incentive applications.

GHG Emissions Reduction: Our team is well-versed in creating GHG emissions audits highlighting carbon emission savings, which are a standard practice in all energy efficiency projects.

Water Conservation: In collaboration with our Water Technologies team, we can generate water savings estimates, water use monitoring, water quality testing and monitoring, optimizing cycles of concentration in cooling towers, water metering, smart water treatment systems with data trends and alarming.

CONNECTED SERVICES, MONITORING, & ANALYSIS

Let Boland keep eyes on your building so you can focus on your business

Boland aggregates data sources such as BAS trends, energy information, service records, equipment data and powerful analytical tools to continuously improve building performance throughout the life of the service contract. Our experts help protect your built environment investment by ensuring sustained performance in KPIs that are important to you and your business.

Connected & Cloud Services: Secure, access-from-virtually-anywhere connectivity from the leading experts in building optimization. With reliable, scalable solutions and cutting-edge building optimization tools, you can uncover your building’s untapped potential to lower operating expenses and enhance comfort and efficiency – regardless of your location. Boland employs advanced analytics, fault detection & diagnostics (FDD), remote maintenance services, and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) to ensure your building operates effectively and efficiently.

Smart Desk: Remote service “Smart Desk” via smart.desk@boland.com operates Monday through Friday 6:30 am until 5:00 pm with same-day resolution 80% of the time, without having to roll a truck.

Facility & Operations Analysis: Boland engineers leverage energy, equipment, and operational data along with trends to offer insights into energy and operational patterns. Collaborating with the building’s service technician, they devise actionable recommendations, quantifying savings where applicable. Furthermore, Boland engineers craft personalized reports to provide precise suggestions for enhancing your building’s operation, efficiency, and comfort.box.

Monitoring & Reporting of Recommendations & Improvements: Periodic evaluations of your goal progress and project pipeline, with prioritization by ROI, GHG, urgency, and/or budget.

Outcome Validation: Ensure that your investment yields the desired long-term results. Following project completion, we offer energy monitoring services and service contracts to maintain ongoing support. We remain committed to the project long after completion to ensure that objectives are achieved.

Water Conservation: In collaboration with our Water Technologies team, we can generate water savings estimates, water use monitoring, water quality testing and monitoring, optimizing cycles of concentration in cooling towers, water metering, smart water treatment systems with data trends and alarming.

THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE

Proven thermal energy storage solutions and energy services expertise for a more resilient, building

Thermal energy storage is a reliable, durable battery for your heating and cooling system. Thermal energy storage systems charge the battery when electricity is cheap, and discharge the battery when electricity is expensive. This can also be used to improve resilience and decrease dependency on the electric grid or favor stored energy when renewable resources on the grid are low. We can work with you to find the solution that works best for your system.

Thermal ice tanks have an expected lifetime of up to 40 years because they are simply water/ice and a plastic tank. There is no expensive thermochemical media to purchase. This lowers first cost and long-term costs.

Benefits of Thermal Energy Storage Systems:
- Lower cooling and heating costs
- Decarbonize
- Improve grid and building resiliency
- Support renewable energy sources like wind and solar
- Ability to participate in grid capacity and demand limit revenue programs
- May qualify for IRA tax incentives – ask your local representative for additional information

The thermal energy storage system can now also be used as an electrified heating solution. This system uses a storage source heat pump and ice tanks to move waste heat from where it is to where it is needed or store it to use later. This solution decarbonizes, reduces electric demand, and acts as a heat recovery system all in one.

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FINANCING & IMPLEMENTATION

Utilize the best financial tools and incentives to make your project a reality

Boland can help you make sense of your financing and contracting options to determine the best way to achieve your infrastructure and carbon reduction initiatives. From decarbonization to infrastructure renewal, Boland will start by understanding your goals, outlining a course of action, and recommending sustainable financial contracting tools to help you reach them.

Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC): Undertake significant building upgrades and pay for them with the future guaranteed energy savings.

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Loans: Finance upfront cost of energy or other eligable improvements and pay them back over time through a voluntary assessment.

Cooperative and Group Purchasing: Streamline procurement and increase your buying power by working with vetted, approved suppliers using pre-negotiated contracts.

Third-Party Ownership Models: ESA, EaaS, and PPA: Evaluate balance sheet treatment and asset ownership to meet your financial objectives.
- Energy Service Agreements (ESA)
- Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS)
- Power Purchasing Agreements (PPA)

WE'RE ON A SUSTAINABILITY JOURNEY WITH YOU

Boland's 2023 Annual Sustainability Report

Take a look at how we're making an impact on our industry, community, and beyond.

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Vertical: Government

Challenge: A campus-wide audit of lighting systems revealed numerous types of inefficient fluorescent and metal halide lighting systems. Not only were the current lighting fixtures inefficient, but they were also negatively affecting the overall Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) of the building.

Solution: Boland retrofitted and replaced all lighting fixtures using state-of-the-art LED lighting systems from Cooper Lighting Solutions. The system includes advanced lighting controls using the Cooper WaveLinx Control System and Trellix. The Trellix system was fully integrated to the Trane Tracer® Ensemble Building Automation System (BAS).

Results: The integrated lighting & BAS solution will allow the facilities staff to change schedules to reflect current usage raise and lower light levels in individual areas, and improve their overall productivity since the standardization of fixtures will extend operating life and reduce the need for inventory of replacement bulbs, parts, and fixtures.

Read more about Berkeley County's sustainability efforts here.