Growth Monitor: Ted Bier, Founder & President, T.M. Bier & Associates Glen Cove, NY

To say that T. M. Bier & Associates (TMBA) was ahead of its time is not exactly accurate, according to Ted Bier, TMBA’s founder and president. It seems that the engineering practices and control systems that TMBA pioneered to lower the energy usage of office buildings have enjoyed steady demand ever since the mid-1970s.

However, with the nation’s ever growing green-minded workforce and the plus-size inventory of aging office buildings in New York’s tri-state area, it’s safe to say that the 36-year-old firm is entering a new age of growth as its control system offerings find new demand among building owners and operators, as well as their tenants.

Read our article: No Building Left Behind: For TMBA, Tenant Education is Driving Next Wave of Energy Optimization

In this edition of Growth Monitor, Ted Bier discusses how TMBA’s objective is to become a partner of the building owner or tenant and rather than sell them a control unit or technology — to design a system and approach that can help them over time to realize savings from energy usage