Energy Auditing Services

Your Building is Spending More Than it Should

We cut through the overhead of traditional energy audits and go straight to what matters: where money is leaving your building, and exactly how to stop it. SBP works with your team to identify actionable opportunities that will save energy, enhance comfort, and improve operational procedures at your facility.

The Problem

Commercial energy costs across the DMV have undergone a structural shift, not a temporary spike. DC commercial rates have climbed from $0.12/kWh in 2020 to over $0.28/kWh today for some of our clients – a 130%+ increase in five years. Maryland is up 52%. Virginia, 25%. For a 50,000 SF office building, that translates from $90K/year to $210K+,  same building, same systems, more than double the bill. That pressure is compounded for owners across DC, Maryland, and Montgomery County, where Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) tie compliance deadlines to actual measured performance. Being modeled, commissioned, and certified also doesn’t mean a building is operating the way it was designed to. Controls get overridden. Occupancy changes. Maintenance gets deferred. Buildings drift and utility bills eventually tell the real story. 

What’s missing is a clear diagnosis of where performance has slipped and a direct path to closing the gap. Most energy audits aren’t built to answer that question.

How SBP is Different

We do offer traditional ASHRAE Level I & II audits, and there are situations where that’s the right tool: BEPS compliance documentation, grant applications, specific program requirements. But many buildings don’t need that level of process to get actionable answers and are better served by focusing more on the outcome than the process. 

Our Targeted Performance Audit delivers the same diagnostic value without the overhead: no filler sections, no measures included just to fill out a scope.  If you have a preventative maintenance plan, you don’t need us to write it down for you. Traditional audits deliver reports. SBP delivers a prioritized action plan built with your input.

SBP Targeted Performance Audit:

• Focus on opportunities and implementation
• Coordinate with the team to identify the measures that can actually be implemented
• Concise findings brief, no 100+ page technical reports
• Quicker turnaround time
• Delivers a ranked, costed action list
• Includes an implementation-ready handoff
• We stick around to make sure everything is implemented correctly and measure the impact

What You Receive

If you need the full ASHRAE deliverable, we’ll tell you. But if the goal is understanding why your building costs what it costs and what to do about it, that’s where we work best.

Every Targeted Performance Audit delivers clear, actionable outputs:

• Utility Cost Diagnosis: Benchmarked analysis of where you stand vs. comparable buildings and your own design baseline
• Prioritized Opportunity List: Ranked savings measures with estimated cost, savings, and simple payback
• Implementation Brief: Actionable scope descriptions your facilities team or contractor can act on immediately
• Performance Gap Analysis: For designed or certified buildings: a clear accounting of why actual performance diverges from modeled intent

Who is This For

• Building owners watching utility costs escalate without explanation
• Asset managers on properties that never hit projected operating budgets
• Facilities teams frustrated by prior audits that gathered dust
• LEED and ENERGY STAR certified buildings underperforming their targets
• Owners navigating BEPS requirements in DC, Maryland, or Montgomery County

Additional Existing Building Services

SBP also provides standalone building performance assessments, including:

• ASHRAE Level I & II Energy Audits 
• BEPS Compliance & Verification
• ENERGY STAR
• Master Planning
• Capital Project Assessment
• Implementation Plans
• Utility Allocations
• Utility Incentives
• Thermal (Infrared) Imaging
• Whole-building airtightness testing
• Compartmentalization testing
• Calibrated Whole-Building Energy Modeling