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The US Department of War is pursuing large-scale modernization efforts through programmatic, non-FAR acquisition strategies designed to deliver outcomes with greater speed, continuity, and scale. Harry Kleiser, PE, president of Salas O’Brien’s federal team, will modera...

On a college campus, capital planning is rarely about fixing one problem at a time. A roof is failing. A heating system is aging. Comfort complaints are increasing. Energy goals are getting more ambitious. And every project has to compete for funding while fitting around classes, housing, and campus operations.

That makes ...

Data centers are being asked to deliver more power with higher reliability, and the battery systems behind them have changed dramatically. Jay Kallsen, account executive for data center programs at Impact Cx, a Salas O’Brien company, will explore that shift at the DER & Critical Infrastructure Educational Summit on Thursday, February 18, 2027, at the 9Zero Climate In...

A design team on a residential project built its original design around the local energy code’s prescriptive path, which required including energy recovery ventilators (ERVs) in the mechanical systems. Once the design had taken shape, the cost of that equipment prompted a harder question: could an energy model demonstrate compliance throu...

Kelly Jones, principal at Salas O’Brien, will speak at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) on October 27, 2026, as part of the newly launched Award-Winning Illumination: Highlights from the IES Illumination Awards program.

Organize...