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September 06, 2011
The whipsaw sequence of recent events in the technology industry highlighted what many are calling the rise of mobility and the marginalization of the PC. Meteoric spikes in the sale of smartphones and tablets are merely hastening the diminished status…
August 31, 2011
Scientific Conservation Inc. closed its deal to buy Atlanta-based Servidyne Inc. for $12.9 million.
August 30, 2011
Scientific Conservation Inc. closed its deal to buy Atlanta-based Servidyne Inc. for $12.9 million.
June 29, 2011
Scientific Conservation paid $12.9 million in cash for Servidyne, an Atlanta-based company that provides energy efficiency, demand response, commercial energy audits and other sustainability programs for commercial buildings.
June 28, 2011
Scientific Conservation Inc. will buy Atlanta-based Servidyne Inc. in a deal worth about $12.9 million.
June 27, 2011
Privately held energy-management company Scientific Conservation Inc. agreed to acquire Servidyne Inc. (SERV) in a $12.9 million deal, as it looks to boost its energy efficiency offerings
June 27, 2011
cientific Conservation has agreed to pay $3.50 per share for Servidyne (NASDAQ: SERV), or about $13 million total — a premium of about 50% over the company’s closing share price last week.
May 31, 2011
Andy Tang, the omnipresent PG&E smart grid exec, has joined Scientific Conservation, the rapidly growing vendor of building analytics tools. Before joining PG&E, Tang worked at Intel. Intel and General Electric are investors in SCI and both conglomerates will deploy…
April 29, 2011
Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI) announced Thursday it locked in funding from GE (NYSE: GE) and Triangle Peak Partners to close its Series B funding at over $19 million.
April 28, 2011
Smart building startup Scientific Conservation has officially brought on power conglomerate GE as an investor. While the company announced a Series B round of $15.65 million in January of this year, Thursday morning, Scientific Conservation said it has boosted that…
April 28, 2011
Back in November, Russ McMeekin, CEO of building management specialist Scientific Conservation Inc., told us that the company's goal for 2011 was to expand the amount of commercial real estate it controlled from 15 million square feet to a whopping…
April 28, 2011
Smart building startup Scientific Conservation has officially brought on power conglomerate GE as an investor. While the company announced a Series B round of $15.65 million in January of this year, Thursday morning, Scientific Conservation said it has boosted that…
April 28, 2011
Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI), a building energy management firm based in San Francisco, has received more than $19 million in funding from GE and Triangle Peak Partners LP.
April 28, 2011
Smart building startup Scientific Conservation has officially brought on power conglomerate GE as an investor. While the company announced a Series B round of $15.65 million in January of this year, this morning Scientific Conservation said it has boosted that…
March 22, 2011
As a result, companies large and small have been rushing into the space to establish niches. Many companies, such as Scientific Conservation, create software that rides on top of the existing building management systems from outfits like Honeywell and Johnson…
March 22, 2011
Smarter building software is a crowded market filled with large players including, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Siemens, Schneider Electric and even Cisco, as well as innovative startups including Scientific Conservation, Building IQ, Incenergy, Advanced Telemetry, Cimetrics and Retroficiency.
March 11, 2011
The software behemoth is currently working with partners to figure out a strategy for software and services for managing energy consumption in commercial buildings, according to Rob Bernard, the company's chief environmental strategist.
March 09, 2011
The first step can sometimes be the most important.
March 09, 2011
Scientific Conservation, meanwhile, has come up with a predictive analysis tool for improving the energy efficiency in commercial buildings. Scientific, which hopes to expand from 15 million to 100 million to 150 million square feet under its purview by the…
March 09, 2011
Retroficiency isn’t aiming to actually control building energy systems, as are many of the new platforms coming from giants like Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Siemens and Schneider Electric — all of which are also ESCOs, by the way. Plenty of startups…
February 23, 2011
The new systems all have methods to eliminate those changes that degrade energy efficiency performance and allow it to be much more persistent than in the past. For instance, by automating the system, there is less chance that a human…
February 16, 2011
Another differentiator is how easy it is to engage these programs. An end user has to do very little to utilize Earth Aid’s resources. It literally took me five minutes to opt into its service by seamlessly pulling my utility…
February 11, 2011
A huge month in terms of dollars, deals and sector scope. Part 2 covers biofuels, energy efficiency, smart grid, wind and everything else.
February 08, 2011
Peter Drucker’s adage “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” rings especially true in the arena of energy use. Driving the development of energy management software applications for home, business, and enterprise-level deployment has been the need to…
February 02, 2011
One of the key trends we’ve seen in cleantech recently is what we call, colloquially, “the rise of the business case.” When large companies and startups have been able to quantify the benefits of a given investment to customers –…
February 02, 2011
Scientific Conservation Inc. has recently teamed up with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company in a joint green venture that will promote energy efficiency and safety, according to a recent press release.
January 31, 2011
Jan 31 - Clean tech companies are getting their fair share of early investment dollars despite high Wall Street interest in social websites like Facebook, Groupon and LinkedIn. Conway G. Gittens reports.
January 26, 2011
According to Jennifer Pulliam, director of innovation for electricity retailer TXU Energy, data is one of the most exciting opportunities in the smart grid — a much-needed upgrade to our power infrastructure driven by information technology
January 24, 2011
"Building optimization practices are growing at a big rate. It's a perfect storm," says Russ McMeekin, SCI's CEO
January 23, 2011
Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund Managing Director Barry Schuler led a $15.6M series B round for Scientific Conservation (SCI), a leading provider of energy efficiency analytic software for the commercial real estate market. The Westly Group also joined the financing.
January 19, 2011
The company that uses neural networks to analyze your building wants to colonize 150 million sq feet of office space this year
January 19, 2011
SCI, which won backing from GE in a round of GE’s Ecoimagination contest last year, approaches building energy efficiency using a software-as-a-service product using predictive diagnostics and automation.
January 19, 2011
SCI’s software-as-a-service specifically analyzes HVAC systems, refrigeration, lighting, controls and renewable energy sources within buildings to help their owner-managers manage them, consume less power, and cut annual energy expenditures. The company’s clients include Harley Davidson, 7-Eleven, Intel and Santa Clara…
January 19, 2011
Barry Schuler, managing director of the DFJ Growth Fund and former CEO of AOL, is the lead investor of the Series B round of funding, and will now sit on the company's board.
January 08, 2011
Back in November, GE named 12 winners and fivesome innovation honor winners from its underway contest submissions. The 12 winners, which separate most of the $55 million, included whatever well-known names like forcefulness asking consort OPower, cellular bag forcefulness start…
January 07, 2011
December 27, 2010
Other Westly greentech portfolio firms include Concentrating PV leader Amonix, stealth solar startup Solexel, LED luminaire firm Lunera and energy efficiency SaaS firm Scientific Conservation.
December 13, 2010
Schneider Electric purchased two companies in building management today as the race to build a suite of comprehensive suite of energy services rolls on.
December 13, 2010
he buying spree in the smart grid-smart building nexus keeps going, this time in France, where Schneider Electric has bought building energy management software providers Vizelia and D5X. Terms of both deals were not disclosed. Chalk it up to what’s…
November 30, 2010
The company--which makes tools for analyzing energy consumption in industrial and commercial buildings--already has 15 million square feet under management. By the end of next year, it will control 100 million to 150 million square feet, says CEO Russ McMeekin.
November 18, 2010
GE announced this week the winners of its $200 million open innovation challenge, which include a lightweight inflatable wind turbine and an intelligent water meter that generates its own power.
November 18, 2010
GE (NYSE: GE) and its venture capital partners are to make a collective investment of $55m in power grid technology companies, as part of the $200 million GE Ecomagination Challenge.
November 18, 2010
GE and its venture capital partners have announced a collective investment of $55 million in power grid technology companies as part of the $200 million GE ecomagination Challenge, selecting 12 start-ups, emerging and established companies and university ideas for investment,…
November 17, 2010
At a conference held by General Electric (GE) this morning in New York, chief executive Jeff Immelt revealed his company’s plans to invest $45 million in twelve digital energy, or smart-grid related companies— the first of several investments planned through…
November 17, 2010
GE and a group of venture-capital partners have invested $55 million in technology companies as a part of the GE ecomagination Challenge. These investments represent the first of several rounds of funding that GE plans to place.
November 17, 2010
Twelve startups, including three from the Bay Area, will receive a total of $55 million from General Electric and a group of venture capital firms as part of an unusual effort to find and finance new smart-grid technologies, the companies…
November 16, 2010
At a conference held by General Electric (GE) this morning in New York, chief executive Jeff Immelt revealed his company’s plans to invest $45 million in twelve digital energy, or smart-grid related companies— the first of several investments planned through…
November 16, 2010
At a conference held by General Electric (GE) this morning in New York, chief executive Jeff Immelt revealed his company’s plans to invest $45 million in twelve digital energy, or smart-grid related companies— the first of several investments planned through…
November 16, 2010
Having scoured the globe via the Internet for promising power grid technologies, General Electric today said it and its partners will invest $55 million to into 12 energy-focuses start-ups.
October 28, 2010
The checkbooks will open soon in lighting controls. Place your bets on who gets gobbled up first and for the most cash. We will likely witness a series of acquisitions in the world of lighting networks very soon.
August 11, 2010
Scientific Conservation touts a similar angle. The company produces software for operating large office buildings efficiently and unobtrusively.
August 06, 2010
Helping green buildings stay that way, year after year, is the goal of software maker Scientific Conservation. The San Francisco-based business’ technology monitors building systems that control heating and air conditioning, ventilation and electricity use. The service reports if those…
July 15, 2010
In this third part of my three-part Q&A with SCI's CEO Russ McMeekin, he talks about the future and artificial intelligence.
July 14, 2010
In the second part of my three-part interview with SCI's CEO Russ McMeekin, he talks about the state of energy efficiency in the U.S., Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), and the SCIwatch.
July 13, 2010
In the first of my three-part interview with CEO Russ McMeekin of Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI), McMeekin discusses his background, the mission of SCI and the Regenerative Network.
June 24, 2010
Scientific Conservation lands $9M — Based in Berkeley, Calif., the maker of software used to improve building energy efficiency brought in $9 million in new capital from the Westly Group and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
June 24, 2010
Scientific Conservation Inc., which makes energy efficiency technology for buildings, said it has landed an additional investment of $4 million from a new investor, to make a final close of $9 million in its Series A round.
June 13, 2010
Like a much-played musical instrument, even the greenest buildings can fall out of tune. Enter software maker Scientific Conservation, a Berkeley startup that makes sure sustainable buildings deliver peak levels of energy savings....
May 10, 2010
Light-emitting diodes have been used as a source of lighting for years, but mainly in commercial settings such as parking garages because of their high upfront cost compared with other types of lighting. LED manufacturers, however, have come out with…
April 29, 2010
Two themes tend to stand out when you look at the portfolio of venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. One, the firm likes to plunge into relatively new markets before others do, which in turn arguably makes the firm's portfolio something…
April 06, 2010
Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI), a provider of energy-efficiency and system-optimization software for the commercial building market, announced last week it raised its first round of funding.
March 30, 2010
Scientific Conservation Inc., a company developing a product to monitor energy use in buildings, said Monday it raised $5 million in a Series A round. Berkeley, Calif.-based Scientific landed the money from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The company…
January 21, 2010
Imagine walking into the lobby of an office building you recently designed, and seeing the building's real-time performance displayed on a 42-in. flat-screen monitor. Displayed are the energy and water usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and even the photovoltaic (PV) array…
December 21, 2009
Scientific Conservation, which unleashed its powerhouse SCIwatch automated continuous commissioning software-as-a-solution service this summer, has struck up an alliance with Natural Logic, a firm that's made its mark as a sustainability consultancy. The firms said they will provide joint customers…
December 16, 2009
Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI), the industry leader in Automated Continuous Commissioning (ACC) software, today announced a strategic alliance with Natural Logic, Inc., “strategic advisors to the sustainable economy.” As a result of today’s alliance, the companies will offer joint customers…
November 23, 2009
Today's solutions are the equivalent of treating a bloody nose ahead of a heart attack based on which patient entered the ER first, says CEO David Wolins of Scientific Conservation.
November 06, 2009
“What we’re starting to see is a little bit of brain drain at our clients. They’re collecting all this data, but are not necessarily able to manage it or make sense of it,” comments Andrew Brodie, product manager with the…
November 02, 2009
Just when we start to truly understand the power of networks, we are rapidly being introduced to powerful low-cost Web services that live in the cloud beyond the network. When we originally started our online magazine, AutomatedBuildings.com, we joked that…
October 28, 2009
The techies at Scientific Conservation, which sell a service for monitoring the optimal performance of commercial building, have added a new energy measurement module.
October 28, 2009
Scientific Conservation Inc., the Berkeley firm that launched its innovative Sciwatch solution to tackle buildings' energy drift in June, has released its newest product for beta testing: an application that measures and predicts a facility's energy use so accurately that…
October 27, 2009
Scientific Conservation Inc., (SCI), a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions for the $5 billion commercial building market, today announced SCIenergy,™ a highly accurate energy measurement and optimization application for its SCIwatch™ Automated Continuous Commissioning platform. SCIenergy delivers a breakthrough…
October 26, 2009
Scientific Conservation, a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions for the $5 billion commercial building market, today announced SCIenergy,(TM) a highly accurate energy measurement and optimization application for its SCIwatch(TM) Automated Continuous Commissioning platform.
October 23, 2009
Bay Area startups are developing creative ways to tap into energy efficiency, as billions of dollars slated for the sector begin to flow.
October 02, 2009
Overseeing the engineering, energy management, sustainability, environmental/regulatory compliance and system-wide maintenance for The Neiman Marcus Group’s fleet of properties is a significant challenge. This is due not only to the number and size of the properties, which total more than…
October 01, 2009
As we have noted in previous articles, moving building management from reacting to changes in building operations to proactively identifying potential sources of system failure and addressing these anomalies before they impact operations, is now reality. The use of diagnostics…
September 29, 2009
Scientific Conservation announced that The Neiman Marcus Group is rolling out its SCIwatch Automated Continuous Commissioning solution across its stores. Neiman Marcus is using the solution to proactively detect, identify and diagnose potential faults and anomalies affecting key mechanical, electrical…
September 21, 2009
As more software and computer services move off-site, a look around suggests
that the collaborative power of cloud computing has already begun to reign for
those looking to harness real-time building information most efficiently...
September 14, 2009
Scientific Conservation Inc. has landed a deal with Neiman Marcus to supply its energy efficiency software to the retailer’s stores. The Berkeley-based startup’s software will detect problems with the stores mechanical, electrical and heating and air conditioning units and then…
September 10, 2009
Scientific Conservation sits at the intersection of green IT and green technology for more energy-efficient building management. Founded in 2007, the company offers a software platform called SCIwatch for what it has dubbed Automated Continuous Commissioning. In laymen’s terms, this…
August 24, 2009
Scientific Conservation Inc., (SCI), a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions for the $5 billion commercial building market, today announced that it has received the Frost & Sullivan 2009 Enabling Technology of the Year Award in the Automated Continuous Commissioning…
August 10, 2009
In this report, McKinsey & Company offers a detailed analysis of the magnitude of the efficiency potential in non-transportation uses of energy, a thorough assessment of the barriers that impede the capture of greater efficiency, and an outline of the…
July 31, 2009
Persistent monitoring and diagnostics of system operations directly impacts sustainable energy efficiency in commercial buildings. Examples include everything from detecting heating and air conditioning programming errors to identifying out-of-adjustment settings on control systems, improperly balanced parallel chillers that cause unwanted…
July 31, 2009
Recommissioning every few years or on an ad hoc basis is not the answer. Facilities managers need an Automated Continuous Commissioning solution that persistently and automatically predicts, detects, diagnoses and prioritizes system faults and anomalies that are constantly present in…
July 21, 2009
Scientific Conservation Inc.'s SCIWatch software not only integrates across platforms, but it heuristically analyzes the information it receives and gives operators essentially continuous commissioning feedback on the building, which enables them to identify, track and fix problems, often even before…
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July 01, 2009
Software as a service has become increasingly popular in the energy world, with startups like Planet Metrics and Hara popping up to help companies cut carbon emissions. The newest contender is Scientific Conservation, a startup that wants to bring SaaS…
July 01, 2009
June 29, 2009
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Berkeley firm Scientific Conservation Inc. goes to market today with its SCIwatch software-as-a-service solution -- a first in Automated Continuous Commissioning that its creators say enables building owners and operators to cut as much as 25 percent…
June 29, 2009
June 29, 2009
Selling software as a service through the web has helped make software more affordable and distribution more efficient. Now a startup called Scientific Conservation, which officially launched today after several years in relative stealth mode, wants to bring the software-as-a-service…
June 29, 2009
June 29, 2009
Scientific Conservation's new SCIwatch software can reduce energy spending by 25% by constantly monitoring and adjusting building systems.
June 29, 2009
Scientific Conservation this week launched a software-as-a-service program to help building owners cut their annual energy spending by up to 25%. The SCIwatch solution addresses a problem called energy drift and gathers information from a building's energy management system to…
June 29, 2009
Scientific Conservation Inc., (SCI), a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions for the $4.5 billion commercial building market, today announced the launch of SCIwatch,™ a breakthrough Automated Continuous Commissioning (ACC) software platform that enables commercial building owners and facility operators…
June 29, 2009
Scientific Conservation says its software can boost the energy savings of a typical building automation system by 25 percent. Making buildings more energy efficient is a focus for many,including Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
June 29, 2009
Selling software as a service through the web has helped make software more affordable and distribution more efficient. Now a startup called Scientific Conservation, which officially launched today after several years in relative stealth mode, wants to bring the software-as-a-service…
