Your Building Automation System Is Part of Your Attack Surface. And Threat Actors Know It.

2025-12-31T07:53:29+00:00Categories: Cybersecurity, Master Systems Integration, News and Information|Tags: , , , , , |

Why recent cybersecurity incidents are forcing enterprise owners to rethink building systems security. Your buildings are connected—but are they protected? Is your BAS cybersecurity posture reactive or proactive? Over the past few years, cybersecurity incidents have made one thing clear: Building Automation Systems (BAS) are no longer isolated operational tools. They are enterprise digital assets. And increasingly, are enterprise [...]

Driving Decarbonization with Life-Cycle Assessment: Insights from Altura’s Webinar on Cerclos’ eTool (Video)

2025-11-28T13:49:26+00:00Categories: Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, News and Information, Sustainability|

As the building industry increasingly focuses on sustainability, the importance of decarbonization in the design and construction process has become paramount. In our recent webinar with Cerclos, we offered an in-depth exploration of how to effectively approach decarbonization for large campus building projects. We share insights not only addressing the technicalities of carbon reduction, but also how to [...]

Strategies for Making Existing Buildings More Energy Efficient (Video)

2025-11-28T13:52:42+00:00Categories: Analytics, Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Master Systems Integration, News and Information, Performance Delivery, Sustainability|

Maximizing existing building energy performance with real-time data Fresh off an incredible experience at #Verge2023, one of Altura's principals and environmental programs leader, Ryan Gaylord, engaged in a captivating conversation with our friend James Darius Ball at GreenBiz. They explored the current state of affairs in sustainable energy tactics and how Altura continues to approach decarbonization harnessing real-time data [...]

Using Data to Increase Velocity as the World Slows Down

2025-11-28T13:51:51+00:00Categories: Analytics, News and Information|

Altura Principal Jim Meacham contributed an article in the Spring 2020 edition of the Project Haystack Connections Journal. Excerpt: The unprecedented “lock-downs” and stay-at-home orders across the U.S. and the world are exposing a new category of winners and losers – the data “have’s” and the data “have-not’s”. A few recent project examples highlight how our nearly decade-long investment [...]

Altura client recognized for Smart Energy Analytics (SEA) Campaign

2025-11-28T13:51:38+00:00Categories: Analytics, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, News and Information|

With over 80 million square feet of properties that have undergone extensive renovations over the years, pursuing aggressive energy savings goals is a highly complex undertaking for MGM Resorts International, the Las Vegas-based hospitality company. A variety of building automation systems (BAS) and 24/7 nature of the business creates additional challenges in gathering the necessary data for improving and [...]

Altura recognized by DOE as MBCx Provider of the Year!

2025-11-28T13:51:33+00:00Categories: Analytics, News and Information|

Altura is thrilled to announce we’ve been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Smart Energy Analytics Campaign as Monitoring Based Commissioning Service Provider of the Year! The award was accepted by Altura engineer Tavis Werts at the 2019 BCxA Conference in Chicago. This award is recognition for work Altura has completed with participants of the Smart [...]

Altura Receives American Honda’s Premier Partner Award

2025-10-31T00:24:41+00:00Categories: Corporate Sustainability, News and Information|

Altura is extremely proud to be a recipient of American Honda’s Premier Partner Award for the fourth year in a row. Altura was one of 15 award recipients in 2018 – selected from a pool of more than 1,000 eligible suppliers based on excellence in quality, value and customer service. Read the press release from American Honda. [...]

Altura’s Work at Caltech Featured in ASHRAE Journal

2025-11-28T13:55:02+00:00Categories: News and Information|

Altura engineers Adam Rohloff and Jim Meacham discuss Connected Commissioning in the February 2016 edition of ASHRAE Journal.  The article outlines the process, challenges, and benefits of data-driven commissioning in the context of multiple major renovations of energy-intensive laboratory facilities at Caltech. Read the full article. Posted with permission from ASHRAE.

CEC Advanced Energy Community Project Awarded to Altura’s Team

2025-11-28T13:54:30+00:00Categories: News and Information|

We are pleased to announce that the California Energy Commission has selected the team comprised of the Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), the City of Huntington Beach, Altura Associates, Inc., and the U.S. DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to complete a major applied research project to accelerate the deployment of [...]

How is Understanding Data Analytics like Understanding Political Polls?

2025-10-31T00:40:38+00:00Categories: News and Information|

by Greg Shank, Principal, Altura ‘Tis the season where political pundits bring us new revelations every day as a result of polls, such as “Candidate A will outperform with people aged 18-35.” As an advocate and practitioner using data analytics for energy efficiency in buildings, I recognize the value of quality data and appropriate interpretation of the right information. [...]

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