Thrive Buildings has announced its incorporation as an independent company focused on providing turnkey solutions to decarbonise labs, cleanrooms and other high-energy facilities.
“Thrive Buildings was created to help our customers meet the changing demands of research facilities,” said Dan Diehl, CEO of Thrive Buildings. “Being involved in the built environment for over 30 years, I have never seen a more important and urgent time to optimise these critical assets and to be able to do this in a win-win-win approach makes success for all constituents achievable.”
While labs, cleanrooms and research facilities are essential for scientific discovery and innovation, many of them rely on decades-old systems that struggle to meet sustainability and compliance standards.
Thrive Buildings, which is based in Norwood, Massachusetts, aims to bridge the gap and assist facilities in meeting these standards.
The company provides turnkey managed-services in energy optimisation, real-time data analytics and sustainable technology integration. All of these services are designed to reduce carbon emissions, lower operating costs and improve health and safety outcomes.
The independent company is already working with 11 Massachusetts colleges and universities, with additional projects underway nationwide.
The independence from Aircuity comes at a time when research and healthcare institutions are facing additional energy and budgetary pressures.
Ageing facilities, increased power costs and tightening carbon targets are all pushing estates and facilities managers to find new efficiency models.
The US Department of Energy estimates that up to 30% of energy used in commercial buildings could be saved through better management and upgrades.
Diehl previously helped Aircuity develop applications enabling adaptive airflow for cleanrooms, supporting carbon reduction, energy savings, and controlled Indoor Air Quality.
The “adaptive airflow” solution works through a real-time response setup to contamination levels in a cleanroom. This means ventilation is provided where it is needed versus just prescriptively applying a set ventilation rate that will be wasting energy and carbon most of the time.
For each project that uses adaptive airflow, the company had to ensure that their platform could meet the ISO classification requirements when integrated with the existing HVAC system.
Diehl expressed excitement about the launch of the adaptive airflow system in 2024, and said at that time that there was already a lot of interest and requests for future projects.
Thrive Buildings will continue this important work at the intersection of engineering, data and service delivery to allow organisations to decarbonise without compromising compliance and safety.