3fficient services

Many owners plan how to get into their new digs, but not how to keep their digs new.  At 3FFICIENT, we provide the expertise and capital to make your buildings and operations more efficient and sustainable.

Most owners have been told that green or highly efficient buildings cost more.  Well that’s just not true.  For decades, our staff have successfully retrofitted buildings to make them super efficient and green.  How so?  Well, while we can’t reveal all our secrets, we can tell you we essentially do more with less. We make buildings inherently efficient, with lower costs that pay for themselves many times over!   We integrate best practices, bio-mimicry and smart grid management to make our clients’ buildings more comfortable, more productive, safer and super efficient.

Commissioning is the art of tuning a building or facility to function as it was intended.  According to the California Energy Commission, commissioning with integrated design shaves 25 – 35% off of a building’s total energy usage and pays for itself within 3 – 24 months.  According to the US Department of Energy, retro-commissioning pays for itself in less than 2 years.

The Smart Grid has arrived. And it all starts in the buildings and campuses. 3FFICIENT has developed an instant micro-grid solution that is portable, low cost and readily integrated into various platforms and systems. It can integrate building automation, submetering, security systems, distributed energy systems, energy storage, utilities, demand response systems and more to form a modern wireless grid that is affordable, user adaptable and highly secure.  We call it IRIS because it gives instant focus on what maters.  Today, we use it for monitoring and verifying performance of our projects.  Tomorrow, you’ll be able to use it manage your entire enterprise – securely and cost effectively.