Your building is leaking money. We find the leak.
Drifted setpoints, stale schedules, disabled resets. Fifteen years of BMS drift compounds into 12–22% of your annual utility spend, silently. We drive it back out in 90 days, without capex, without downtime, without new equipment. Your ESG numbers improve as a side effect. Your 2030 LL97 pathway shrinks too.
Most NYC owners are working from three broken options.
Hire an ESCO
They're paid to inflate savings claims and sell you equipment. Their pitch is a sales tool, not an engineering analysis.
Hire an engineering firm to write a report
You get a beautiful PDF that lives on a shelf. No implementation, no verification, no accountability.
Do nothing
Utility costs keep climbing. LL97 penalties compound. Deferred maintenance turns into emergency capex. The status quo isn't neutral. It's expensive.
A meaningful portion of your utility spend, ESG gap, and LL97 exposure can be eliminated with equipment you already own.
Your BMS was engineered to do 100% of the job. In most NYC buildings, it's doing 60. Setpoints have drifted, schedules are stale, resets are disabled, alarms are ignored. That's the seat MER Energy Systems occupies. We drive the remaining 40 out of what you already paid for.
Three pillars in. One M&V retainer out.
Any pillar stands alone. Most clients start with one. All three come from the same team, priced upfront, no bundling required. Choose your pain. We handle it.
Save Today
Your BMS was designed to do 100% of the job and is currently doing 60. We drive the missing 40 out of it in 90 days, without capex or downtime.
- Plant Optimization Sprints for Steam, HW, CW, AHU, and CHW ($8-35k, fixed price per system)
- BMS Health Check ($2,500), a diagnostic entry point for BMS drift
- Typical range: 12-22% utility spend reduction on buildings with drifted BMS
- 90-day verified savings via IPMVP-compliant M&V
Improve ESG
Same BMS optimization work delivers auditable emissions reduction. IPMVP-compliant M&V infrastructure means your ESG report survives scrutiny.
- Measurable emissions reduction from BMS optimization, no capex required
- Trend Log Configuration and M&V Retainer for defensible reporting
- Feeds ENERGY STAR, GRESB, LEED, and CDP submissions
- Independent CMVP verification protects the numbers you report to the board
Protect Capital
Independent verification on retrofits, vendor-neutral SOWs, and quantified LL97 exposure. We're not paid by anyone selling you equipment.
- Independent ESCO Savings Audit ($8-25k), verify vendor claims before you sign
- Owner's Rep on retrofits (3-5% of contract, $15k min)
- Vendor-Agnostic SOW Drafting ($4-8k) before you hire anyone
- LL97 planning: Rapid Diagnostic, Operational Assessment, Capital Planning Study, Annual Compliance
Three ways to work with MER.
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Delivered to IPMVP standards, guaranteed in writing. Choose your entry point below.
Cost + Compliance Snapshot
Owners who want a real number on where they stand.
- Personalized cost + compliance PDF from your actual utility bills
- Utility cost forecast, peer benchmarking, and LL97 exposure through 2034
- One mitigation scenario covering bill reduction and LL97 pathway
- 5-7 business day turnaround
Rapid Diagnostic
Owners ready to identify specific moves. Bill reduction, LL97 mitigation, or both.
- Half-day on-site BMS review (2-3 hour site walk)
- Top 3-5 no-capex moves prioritized by savings
- 24-month utility bill analysis, weather-normalized
- Written implementation roadmap with cost bands
- 3x money-back guarantee: $7,500+ in verifiable annual savings or full refund
Plant Optimization Sprints
Owners ready to execute. Fixed-price sprint delivery for a specific plant system.
- Steam, HW, CW, AHU, or CHW Plant Optimization
- 4-8 week implementation plus 90-day M&V
- IPMVP-compliant baseline and verified savings
- Fixed scope, fixed price, no quote roulette
After the project ends, MER stays in the room.
Every entry path leads here. Bill reduction sprints. ESG programs. Capital protection. Audits. Diagnostics. All of them designed to end at an ongoing M&V retainer where an independent CMVP engineer keeps the numbers honest, quarter after quarter. This is where the relationship becomes an annuity for you and an ally for your board.
Continuous verification
ECMs where MER established the baseline get independent verification against actual utility bills (up to 2/year included; additional at hourly rate). IPMVP-compliant. Board-defensible. No self-reported savings.
Quarterly executive summary
Board-ready deck each quarter: LL97 trajectory, savings claimed vs verified, rebate captured, next-quarter recommendation. One document, one signature, one number the C-suite can act on.
On-call for ECM launches
When your controls contractor, ESCO, or MEP kicks off a new measure, MER is in the room from day one. Baseline preserved. Trend logs configured. Vendor accountable. (Priority scheduling on retainer; scope defined per launch.)
$3-6k/month per building.
Structured as a retainer with clear monthly deliverables. Sized to your portfolio (small building or complex plant), scaled to your ECM velocity. Cancel anytime. Most owners renew because independent M&V pays for itself the first time a vendor's savings claim doesn't match the utility bill.
We sit on the owner's side of the table. That's the whole point.
Independent engineering. Real BMS depth. No equipment margin, no vendor kickbacks, no report on a shelf.
15 years hands-on building automation.
A decade-plus of designing, programming, and commissioning HVAC control sequences across NYC commercial, mixed-use, and institutional buildings. Deepest hands-on depth is Alerton. The strategy is BMS-agnostic. The operational patterns that break down in NYC buildings are the same regardless of vendor. Owner-side oversight covers your Alerton, Siemens, JCI, Honeywell, or Distech controls contractor.
CEM + CMVP + CEA-certified. Not marketplace subcontractors.
Certified Energy Manager (CEM), Certified Measurement & Verification Professional (CMVP), and Certified Energy Auditor (CEA), all three from AEE. The credentials utility programs, third-party reviewers, and rebate authorities expect for defensible energy audit and IPMVP-standard M&V work. Every report is signed by a named engineer with an engineering degree, not routed through an audit marketplace to whoever bid lowest.
Built and commissioned dozens of BMS optimization projects.
Retrocommissioning, hot water reset design, chiller and boiler plant optimization, steam plant sequencing, BMS graphics, and trend log configuration across NYC buildings from 25k to 500k sf. Not theory. Not case studies from ten years ago. Work you can verify.
You talk to the engineer. Not a sales team.
No SDRs. No BDRs. No account executives selling you what they don't understand. Every diagnostic, every report, every phone call goes through the CMVP engineer who signs the work. No equipment sales, no ESCO ties, no vendor kickbacks. Every recommendation is one you can hand to three contractors and receive three comparable bids.
The person you book is the person who does the work.
Fifteen years in automation. Industrial and pharma controls abroad, then a decade of NYC building automation, most of it as a senior BMS engineer at Automated Building Management Systems Inc, across a portfolio of Manhattan buildings. Later crossed over into plant operations directly. Refrigerating System Operating Engineer (RSOE).
That path put me on three sides of every energy project. The contractor side, selling and installing the BMS. The operator side, running the equipment after the contractor left, and finding out what the install actually delivered. And now the independent side. CEM + CMVP + CEA-certified, not on anyone's payroll, and free to say what the previous two sides could not.
Same pattern in every building. The biggest savings were sitting in plain sight. Disabled points. Old overrides. Resets running against a fixed setpoint. Fixes an operator could implement in an afternoon if they understood the system. Utility costs kept climbing while LL97 turned the same gap into a fine. MER exists to close it.
Two guarantees, both hard.
We do not guarantee outcomes we cannot control. We guarantee everything we can.
Identified savings guarantee
On any diagnostic or assessment, if we do not identify at least three times the fee in documented annual savings opportunity, we refund it in full.
- $2,500 Rapid Diagnostic≥ $7,500/yr identified
- $2,500 BMS Health Check≥ $7,500/yr identified
- $6,000 Operational Energy Assessment≥ $18,000/yr identified
- $15,000 Capital Planning Energy Study≥ $45,000/yr identified
For a typical NYC building with drifted BMS, the annual utility savings alone are often multiples of these thresholds. Buildings over the LL97 cap add the penalty avoided on top.
Deliverable guarantee
On any deliverable-based engagement (audits, baselines, M&V reports), we deliver to IPMVP standards, accepted by NYSERDA, ConEd, and any qualified third-party reviewer, or we rework at no charge.
- · Operational Energy Assessments and Capital Planning Energy Studies (ASHRAE-aligned)
- · IPMVP-compliant baseline documentation
- · LL87 Energy Efficiency Reports (analysis and preparation; PE/RA signs the audit half, QRCA signs the retro-commissioning half)
- · ECM verification memos and rebate submissions
If any qualified reviewer rejects it, we rework it at no charge until it's accepted. Regulated stamps on LL87 and LL97 filings are delivered through the appropriately licensed professional; analysis and report preparation are delivered directly by MER.
Questions owners ask before they book.
Book your free 30-minute Building Cost + Compliance Call.
Tell us about your building. We pull your public LL84 benchmark data ahead of time and walk you through where your utility costs stand, your ESG position, your LL97 exposure through 2030, and the three most likely opportunities specific to your building type. No sales pressure.