Case studies
Illustrative engagements where our work informed high-stakes capital and operational choices. Each study presents the context, the problem, and the outcomes. If any of these look familiar, your situation likely has more overlap than the title suggests.
Town of Chelmsford, MA — Public school building electrification
The Chelmsford Public School Building Electrification (PSB-E) Study analyzed nine public school facilities totaling 825,048 square feet, built between 1935 and 2006, across a 28-year lifecycle horizon. The Town needed a defensible basis for a capital decision on deep energy retrofits and full building electrification — a decision the select board and school committee would have to stand behind through multiple budget cycles.
The study produced the lifecycle cost framework the Town used to evaluate the $47M electrified capital pathway against a business-as-usual baseline. Each path was accounted in full: capital flows, utility costs, maintenance, emissions trajectory, and the assumptions behind every number. Contracted, delivered, and publicly available.
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US Department of Energy — Urban Fleet Energy Optimization
The UPLIFTS Phase I project was a physics-based feasibility study of software-only velocity schedule optimization for urban electric fleet operations. The analysis spanned 22 drive cycles representing dense-urban, urban-suburban, vocational, and boundary operating conditions, paired with five electric vehicle archetypes covering passenger cars through heavy articulated buses. Energy savings were modeled as physics-based upper bounds under idealized execution, with a conservative 10–30% real-world planning range carried into commercialization.
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Decision support for the operator in the loop
Complex operations put operators in environments that degrade situational awareness faster than any system currently measures it. The data is there. The degradation is happening. But no tool is tracking whether the human-machine team is still performing at the level the mission requires.
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