Design/Build

Installation Services

Controls

Lighting

Design/Build

Our professional engineers can provide your company with customized design solutions for your facility. We have extensive experience in many types of facilities including data centers, hospitals, schools, plants and more. In-house design/build capability assures you of single-source responsibility and accountability. The time and cost savings for a design/project can truly be significant. The Design Build Institute of America notes the following advantages for companies using the design-build method:

• Faster Delivery — collaborative project management means work is completed faster with fewer problems.
• Cost Savings — an integrated team is geared toward efficiency and innovation.
• Better Quality — design-builders meet performance needs, not minimum design requirements, often developing innovations to deliver a better project than initially imagined.
• Singular Responsibility — one entity is held accountable for cost, schedule and performance.
• Decreased Administrative Burden — owners can focus on the project rather than managing disparate contracts.
• Reduced Risk — the design-build team assumes additional risk.
• Reduced Litigation Claims — by closing warranty gaps owners virtually eliminate litigation claims

Integrated building design can improve energy performance and help you reduce the total ownership cost of a facility over the short and long term. Operating and maintaining your building over the long term is another option Way Service can provide. We excel in every aspect of our integrated delivery and always strive for building excellence for you and your facility.
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Installation Services

CES/Way, Ltd. can put you on the road to building excellence with fast and efficient installation of all your mechanical and control system needs, from the smallest rooms or control centers to the major facilities at central plants. We have professional crews with many years of service and installation experience.

We maintain that experience with extensive ongoing training in the latest technologies, as well as the latest safety standards. That experience and training gives you lower costs and peace-of-mind allowing you to focus on your core business. Because we always strive for building excellence for our clients and for the future, Way will continue to maintain and support any equipment we install through various long-term maintenance programs.

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Controls

Many comfort and energy problems in a commercial building can be traced back to issues with the building’s control system. Regardless of the complexity of the system, the intent is to deliver the right temperature and humidity to the right location, at the right time, and with the minimum cost possible.

No matter what type of control system your facility has, Way can be your solutions provider for all of your control system needs.

KMC controls is a partner of Way Service, Ltd. and provides superior products to control devices for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning applications. Way Service, Ltd. provides our customers with a complete line of KMC’s fully programmable digital hardware and intuitive software for local and remote web-based facility management.
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Lighting

CES/Way can survey your present lighting needs and costs and determine the level of savings available to you. For most commercial buildings, lighting makes up 35 percent of the total utility costs.

Lighting provides significant benefits, including:

• Tax rebates, such as EPACT 2005
• Environmental Benefits, immediately reducing your carbon footprint
• Financial Paybacks, providing dramatic savings in electricity and maintenance, generating positive cash flow
• Productive employees, working in proper light levels

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PACE

Capital Planning

Performance Contracting

Bond Management

What is PACE?

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is an innovative financing program that enables owners of commercial and industrial properties to obtain low-cost, long-term loans for energy-efficiency and water conservation improvements.

The Way Companies have been a strong proponent of the program. Way was not only part of the team that developed PACE in a box, the guide cities and counties in Texas use to start their programs, but also the mechanical contractor chosen to work with Congregation Beth Israel, the first PACE project to close in Texas.

How is PACE different?
PACE loans are paid through and secured by a property assessment voluntarily imposed on the property by its owner. Owners repay the costs of the upgrades through the energy/water savings that are generated from the improvements. PACE assessments are attached to and follow the title to the property. They are not subject to acceleration upon default or foreclosure.

Why use PACE?

• No out-of-pocket capital expense
• Allows owners to take on a deeper, more intensive retrofits with greater energy savings and longer payback periods
• 100% of the project financing, including costs associated with audits, fees, M&V, etc.
• Immediate positive cash flow
• Lower operating costs
• Increased marketplace competitiveness & higher building value
• Lenders are protected allowing lenders to provide low-cost, long-term financing

What’s happening now?

The Way Companies are proud members of Keeping PACE in Texas
Keeping PACE in Texas (KPT) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that assembled the Texas coalition to help get the Property Assessed Clean Energy Act (the PACE Act) enacted. On June 14, 2013 the organization realized the goal and the PACE act was made law. Immediately after its passage, KPT led the coalition to design “PACE in a Box.”

PACE in a Box is a uniform, user-friendly, sustainable and scalable turn-key program to assist local governments in establishing and implementing PACE programs. The end result was PACE in a Box, which is meant to serve as a guideline for interested parties. The toolkit means that local governments can begin utilizing the implementation guidelines to set up local PACE programs.

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Capital Planning

Review your Energy

Portfolio Overview

Prioritize Your Portfolio Our analytics engine quickly sorts your properties to highlight your best performers and identify the greatest opportunities. We’ll help you understand what the data tells us and help you investigate solutions.

ENERGY STAR Trends

Streamline ENERGY STAR® Way Companies Energy Dashboard seamlessly integrates with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and adds value by updating and tracking your ENERGY STAR performance over time.

Peer Comparisons

Comparable Reporting Drill into specific properties for deeper energy performance intelligence. Compare your building to its peers inside your portfolio, or find current, relevant and accurate peer comparisons from our proprietary database. Create benchmarks based on region, property type, square footage and more.

Cost Avoidance

Proven Financial Results Don’t just take out word for it—we’ll measure and prove savings for every project we implement in your building. By setting a baseline and tracking utility data, we will report both billed and weather-normalized energy performance.

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Performance Contracting

Performance Contracting enables aging facilities to upgrade their equipment with no upfront costs, using the generated savings to pay for the project. Additionally, this program increases cash flow, reduces deferred maintenance and decreases exposure to ambiguous utility charges. This approach essentially eliminates any performance risk to the owner, serving as an off-balance sheet solution and providing guaranteed operational and energy savings.
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Bond Management

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Maintenance

Retro-Commissioning

Facility Management

Energy Star

Cumulus

Energy Dashboard

HVAC Maintenance & Repair Services

Our goal at CES/Way, Ltd. is building excellence for our customers. As a building owner, your goal is to protect the substantial investment you have made in your building. Properly maintaining mechanical systems is the key to overall life expectancy, efficiency and operating cost reduction for any facility. We have several different maintenance options which can be tailored to fit your building and your budget.

Our professionally managed service programs are designed to provide regularly scheduled maintenance check-ups and energy audits for your building.

Our energy services team will meet with you to determine your unique needs and operating objectives. Our highly trained team will conduct a thorough analysis of your facility’s mechanical systems to establish the current operating conditions and provide a detailed report on the status. A thorough facility audit will be conducted and analyzed and we will present you with several options to keep your building equipment running to the best of its capabilities. By addressing minor issues before they become catastrophic failures, you can save time and money, enabling you to focus on your core business.

Repair Services

A long-term strategy and plan for your building is the ideal solution to achieve worry-free performance; unfortunately that is not always possible. Way has a large fleet of trucks and 24 hour on-call technicians so we can respond when emergencies occur. From simple repairs or one-time projects, to more far reaching solutions, the Way team is prepared to respond to your needs.

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RCx

This systematic process optimizes building performance. The overall goal is to verify and document that systems have been installed properly and that they are performing according to the owner’s operational needs.
Retro-commissioning is typically initiated in response to operational problems in a facility. A manager should consider these questions about his/her facility…

• System performance: Is the system performing as expected? Has there been an unexplained increase in building energy use in the recent past?
• Occupant comfort: Have building occupant complaints risen lately? What is the nature of these complaints?
• Changes to the facility: Have changes been made to the building systems that have not been verified or documented? Have the changes been beneficial?
• How critical is the performance of the building systems to the particular facility or area? How often must it be verified?

The EPA states that, “Researchers at three of the foremost building-commissioning think tanks in the U.S. concluded that retro-commissioning is one of the most cost-effective means of improving energy efficiency in commercial buildings. Analysis of commissioning projects for existing buildings showed a median energy savings of 15 percent and a simple payback period of 0.7 years.”
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Facility Management

Building operation and management can significantly impact all sizes and types of facilities. Way’s facility management services can reduce facility risk and minimize the building’s operating expenses by providing dedicated personnel for all or some of your day-to-day operations and maintenance requirements.
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Energy Star

Whether you already qualify or still need to make some facility improvements, our Certified Energy Managers can help you attain the Energy Star designation for your building. Simple benchmarking is the baseline to establishing the opportunity. We can help you develop and implement performance goals, create and execute action plans, and assess performance and progress.

The list below indicates how much a certified Energy Star facility costs per square foot, based on the business… Do you compare?

Education: $1.11
Hotel: $1.62
Church: $0.59
Office: $1.55
Healthcare: $1.67
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Cumulus

Customer Portal

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Energy Dashboard

Building Performance Analytics

The Way Companies specializes in bringing visibility to building owners and managers who want to control energy expense. Way Companies Energy Dashboard is a powerful, intuitive data visualization tool that can help prioritize energy efficiency through better understanding. Our cloud-based software application is simple, easy to use and puts key business analytics at your fingertips. Using energy cost, consumption and carbon trends, Way Companies Energy Dashboard shows how your building performs compared to itself, its peers, and metrics that matter.

Once Way Companies Energy Dashboard is deployed, an expert team of data professionals works directly with your utility providers to collect, aggregate, input and validate historic and current utility data for your buildings, helping you to generate powerful business insight, deliver benchmarks and identify trends. We take complex, unintuitive utility information and turn it into actionable business intelligence. And whether we’re exploring one building or large portfolios, we use utility bill data to answer four key business questions.

How are your buildings doing?	Are buildings getting better or worse?
Assess building performance with simple metrics and benchmark your building against itself, a portfolio, its peers and ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager®. We take away the guesswork and point out current, relevant and validated building performance.	Prioritize where to focus your attention by tracking how your energy use and expense changes over time, varies with weather patterns and responds to modifications to building equipment and operations. We focus attention on where change is needed most.
Where are the best opportunities for savings?	Have past improvements paid off?
Implement solutions that will truly change building performance and reverse negative trends. Identify which modifications to your building’s operation system and equipment will yield the highest return on investment. We show where to reduce use and save money.	Measure efficiency projects and prove financial results. Know the impact of every investment, large or small, and leverage your utility data to find even more ways to improve. Track and replicate energy best practices. We prove that project improvements are working.

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New Construction

Since 1918, Way has been involved in Houston’s new construction, installing in excess of $160 million in mechanical work since 2005 alone.

Projects include:

Medical/Institutional:

• University of Texas – Texas Medical Center Alkek Hospital Expansion
• University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center – Center for Advanced Biological Imaging Research (CABIR)
• Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
• University of Texas – Basic Research & Education Building
• Memorial Hermann Hospital – Sugar Land Replacement Hospital Genomics Computer Center & Phase II MBG Laboratory
• Memorial Hermann Hospital – The New Pavilion
• Trinity Medical Center
• University of Texas IAQ MSB Stage 3b Lab Upgrade – Phases I, II & III
• Baylor College of Medicine – Cellular Biology Phase I
• M. D. Anderson – Bertner Complex

Office Buildings:

• University of Texas M. D. Anderson Administrative Support Building
• Shell Deer Park Administration Building
• METRO Downtown Transit Center & Administration Office Building
• Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas – Houston Branch

Central Plants:

• University of Texas M. D. Anderson UTRP Utility Plant No. 1
• Memorial Hermann Hospital: Hermann-Robertson & Jones-Cullen Central Plants
• Methodist Hospital Central Plant Upgrade
• Reliant Park Central Heating & Cooling Facility
• Union Station District Energy Center
• United Space Alliance
• Harris County Central Plant

Hospitality/Entertainment:

• Toyota Arena
• Houston Convention Center Hotel
• San Antonio Spurs Arena
• Minute Maid Park