Safe and Sound Certification
Read more about our Safe and Sound certification.
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Case Study: Alta ART Tower
Read more about what goes into smoke control commissioning.
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Green Business Leaders
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Announcing AIR’s 50th Anniversary
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NWESI Welcomes Angela Sheehan as an Outside Board Member
Angela Sheehan, owner of LEED, LLC, was welcomed as our newest Board Member in November, 2021.
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Case Study: Retro-Commissioning Private Club
NWESI has worked with this client to continually improve facility operations as it grows to meet the needs of staff and visitors.
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OSU: Marine Studies Initiative
Watch this short video of OSU's Marine Studies Initiative building to check out our scope of work in Commissioning and TAB.
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Case Study: OSU Marine Studies Initiative
This project involved our Commissioning and TAB teams, from design through warranty. Read more about our role and challenges in this project.
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Case Study: Healthy Building Survey
Read about our approach, challenges, and results of this healthy building survey.
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NWESI Culture: Integrity in Business
Listen as our team discusses company culture, doing the right thing, and what it takes to uphold our company values each day.
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2023 Corporate Social Responsibility Policy
The Corporate Social Responsibility Policy is important to NorthWest Engineering Service, Inc. and its team members. NWESI and its subsidiary, Air Introduction and Regulation, are proud to have received awards from both Washington County and Lane County in green business and sustainability practices.
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A Surprise to Analysts: Less CHP in Microgrids, More Solar October 18, 2018 By Lisa Cohn
Combined heat and power (CHP) provides year-round baseload energy in microgrids — something renewable resources don’t do. Yet solar PV now overshadows CHP in planned microgrid projects, according to a new microgrid database by ICF.
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Energy Efficiency Jobs in America, by E4TheFuture
2.25 Million Americans Work in Energy Efficiency:
"This report focuses solely on the energy sector of the economy such as jobs in retail trade, vehicle efficiency-related work. Energy efficiency added the most new jobs in 2017 of the entire energy sector. Its workers now outnumber elementary and middle school teachers and are nearly double those in U.S. law enforcement. In fact, there are now as many energy efficiency workers as there are waitstaff in U.S. bars and restaurants."
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Create a Female-friendly Culture in Construction, Author: Annalisa Enrile and Oliver Ritchie
Governments are creating incentives for women in nontraditional fields, which includes construction. Getting in the door is only the beginning. What happens once women are hired? Companies are becoming more aware that they have to be accountable for their workplace environments.
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Green HVACR Magazine: What’s so scary about T-REC’s? Author: Tom Prevish
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Value of Commissioning, Author: Evan Mills Ph.D
The aim of commissioning new buildings is to ensure that they deliver, if not exceed, the performance and energy savings promised by their design. When applied to existing buildings, commissioning identifies the almost inevitable “drift” from where things should be and puts the building back on course. In both contexts, commissioning is a systematic, forensic approach to quality assurance, rather than a technology...
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