+ Read MoreThe Weidt Group Merges With EYP Energy
Albany, NY — February 13, 2013
The Weidt Group Merges With EYP Energy
Strategic Merger Will Further Elevate EYP Energy's Nationally Recognized Energy Practice
EYP Energy, a division of EYP, Inc., today announced a strategic merger with The Weidt Group, one of the nation's premiere building energy consulting firms, currently headquartered in Minnesota. The merger will expand upon EYP Energy's 30 years of experience and diversified platform of energy related services. With staff members in four offices in Minnesota, Colorado, Iowa, and Wisconsin, The Weidt Group will further elevate EYP Energy’s portfolio, while continuing to offer services to their client networks under their well-respected brand name.
An internationally recognized energy and software consulting firm, The Weidt Group brings proprietary energy software modeling tools, energy benchmarking, and software development capabilities to complement EYP Energy's analysis, implementation, and commissioning expertise. The Weidt Group partners with design teams, building owners, manufacturers, utility companies, and state and local governments on the design and operation of high-performance buildings. They also provide energy design assistance and measurement & verification services for institutional and commercial clients, as well as energy benchmarks for improving the ongoing performance of existing buildings. Additionally, The Weidt Group is a current market leader in energy efficiency software design, creating sophisticated energy information delivery tools that convert data into knowledge, based on modeled, measured, and tracked building performance. On a yearly basis, The Weidt Group has helped reduce air pollution by nearly 1000 kilotons while saving building owners and operators over $94 million annually.
"Energy efficiency represents a core growth market for EYP Energy, and The Weidt Group is the nation’s top provider of consulting services for that market," commented EYP President and CEO Tom Birdsey, AIA, LEED AP. "They bring tremendous expertise to the table, particularly in predicting and monitoring energy performance of complex building design and construction projects. The Weidt Group's powerful B3 Benchmarking software is a game changer and an industry first, providing clients the key to unlocking energy design and savings to give them the valuable information they need to significantly reduce their overall energy usage." He added, "Merging with The Weidt Group serves as a catalyst for the transformation of our growing energy group, ultimately strengthening our long-standing commitment to the intelligent use of buildings."
Tom McDougall, President of The Weidt Group said, "Clients don't hire firms; they hire experts. Both EYP Energy and The Weidt Group employ many of the nation’s most respected professionals. Working together, the possibilities are endless." He added, "The Weidt Group staff consists of highly skilled analysts with broad technical expertise and management experience. We look forward to combining our expertise with that of EYP Energy to contribute to the future growth of our energy efficiency business. Our entire senior leadership is excited about this transition, and look forward to serving as an active part of the firm moving forward."
Founded in 1977, The Weidt Group was established to account for and manage the environmental impacts of building design and construction. By 1985, The Weidt Group began to emerge as a pioneering software design firm creating tools for architects, engineers, utilities and manufacturers. Weidt is a market leader in object-oriented software—creating virtual products to model and manage complexities of the real world.
EYP Energy is a division of EYP, Inc., that delivers comprehensive energy and sustainability services. EYP, Inc. is a global provider of comprehensive building and design related consulting services to a broad range of markets, including education, government, healthcare, and corporate. With employees located across the country in twelve offices, it is a recognized leader in all of the key markets that it serves. Prominently ranked on numerous industry "best of" lists, EYP successfully delivers expertise-driven services to clients around the world.
Founded in 1977 to account for the environmental impacts of building design, construction, and operations, The Weidt Group offers analysis, consulting and software tools that improve decision-making from pre-design, through product selection and post-occupancy. Clients and users of our software, analyses and data stores include utility companies, manufacturers, architects and engineers, evaluators and policy makers. The Weidt Group addresses comparative analyses from the introduction of new energy conservation measures in new construction and existing buildings to the evaluation of actual performance by individual technologies, individual buildings, and whole populations of buildings.
Deep analysis over several decades is the foundation for our work in energy policy, program design, program delivery, project delivery, and software tools. Early on, we went deep to become good at understanding the complexities underlying how energy technologies and buildings actually perform. To influence outcomes, we also learned how design teams, owners, utility companies, users and operators of buildings made their decisions. Bringing them value has always meant finding new ways to go faster and summarize well. Weidt consulting—and now our software—accelerates multiple analyses, extends the functionality of existing energy simulation software, and integrates, stores, and presents data in the Cloud.
Anticipating energy performance with analytical data has steadily gained favor as a Best Practice even as the standards for comparison have evolved beyond basic energy efficiency performance into credits, certifications, and ratings. The Weidt Group has evolved as well to address these multiplicities with greater speed and accuracy. New tools for new times.
The Weidt Group, as an energy company, works with four utilities and has consulted on over 1,200 new construction projects. We consult internationally, with government agencies, utilities, architects, engineers, and building owners to achieve documented high-performance buildings. We provide Energy Design Assistance (EDA) and Measurement & Verification (M&V) services for Commercial New Construction (CNC) and existing buildings through utility Demand Side Management (DSM) programs. This includes complete program design and implementation including web-based real-time program tracking. Weidt tools and services extend into benchmarking, rating, and labeling services for improving the ongoing performance of existing buildings. To date we have over 7,600 facilities in our existing buildings database.
Go Energy ►The Weidt Group, as a software company, has over 27 million external users of its software products, which are primarily product configurators, system monitors, financial evaluators, and e-commerce sites. Our clients are mostly manufacturers in the architectural, mechanical and electrical industries. Expertise in object-oriented product modeling is the core of our success in creating intuitive applications on top of sophisticated virtual product models. Though the virtual products themselves have complex, real-world behaviors, their sophistication is hidden from the users until they have a need to know. Weidt object models for technologies and buildings are uniquely flexible in their fidelity and are portable across software applications. Like all good models, our object models, in the right applications, reveal unanticipated potentials.
Go Software ►Founded in 1977, The Weidt Group was established to account for and manage the environmental impacts of building design and construction. By 1985, The Weidt Group began to emerge as a pioneering software design firm creating tools for architects, engineers and manufacturers. Today The Weidt Group is a market leader in object-oriented software—creating virtual products to model and manage complexities of the real world. Our software designs, energy consulting, analytical and verification methods follow a common philosophy that aligns with achieving better outcomes for every collaborator. Many of our clients have collaborated with us for more than a decade. The Weidt Group looks at the stability of these relationships as a positive reflection on our core values and the quality of our work.
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