BUILDING TECHNOLOGY & ENERGY SYSTEMS

Sell Your Controls or Energy Services Business to a Partner Built for the Next Decade.

Building automation, controls integration, energy services, commissioning — the vertical sitting at the intersection of mechanical trades, software, and the energy transition. We acquire and operate building technology companies positioned for what's coming, not just what's here.

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What this Vertical Includes

Building technology and energy systems is where mechanical trades meet software, controls, and energy intelligence. We partner with operators across these sub-categories:

Building automation systems (BAS) and building management systems (BMS) integration
Commissioning and retro-commissioning
Sub-metering and energy monitoring infrastructure
HVAC controls

design, install, service, retrofit

Energy services

energy management, monitoring, optimization, ESCO services

Why Trades Mosaic for Building Technology

Built for the Controls
and Energy Decade

Building technology is one of the strongest-positioned verticals of the next ten to twenty years — electrification, efficiency mandates, decarbonization, smart buildings. We're not acquiring these businesses to flip them in five. We're acquiring them to grow alongside that transition.

We Speak Controls
and Commissioning

Most acquirers evaluate controls and BAS integrators as if they were pure HVAC contractors. They're not. The deal economics are different — recurring service contracts, project pipelines, software-and-hardware mix, manufacturer relationships. We evaluate building technology companies in the language they actually operate in.

Adjacent to Mechanical,
Adjacent to Federal

Building technology sits between our Mechanical Trades and Federal Services verticals — and benefits from both. Our (pending) SDVOSB designation opens federal facility work. Our mechanical portfolio creates referral and cross-sell opportunities. Building technology businesses inside the Trades Mosaic platform get reach that independent operators can't match.

What We Look For
in a Building Technology
Services Acquisition

Revenue Range

$1M – $10M
annual revenue

Geography

Mid-Atlantic and Southeast preferred; nationwide considered for federal-aligned businesses

Operating Profile

Mix of project and recurring service revenue, technical depth in controls or energy services, manufacturer certifications and relationships, established field and engineering team, commercial and/or federal customer portfolio.

Deal Structures
Available

Full sale, partial sale with rollover equity for owners staying involved, operator partnership for technical founders who want to keep leading engineering or technical strategy.

Representative Partner Profiles

Here's the kind of building technology and energy services business and owner we're built to partner with — representative profiles, not actual acquisitions.

BAS integration company in the Mid-Atlantic, $5M annual revenue with strong recurring service contracts on commercial properties, manufacturer-certified team, founder-engineer looking for a partner to scale beyond his current personal bandwidth.
Energy services company in the Southeast, $8M annual revenue with mix of ESCO projects, monitoring contracts, and commissioning work, owner seeking capital and platform reach to pursue federal energy retrofits.
HVAC controls and automation contractor, $3M annual revenue with established commercial customer base and manufacturer partnerships, owner-engineer considering a partial sale that preserves technical leadership while taking chips off the table.
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What We Don't Acquire

Being clear about what we don't do saves everyone time. We don't typically acquire:

Pure consulting firms without operational service delivery
Businesses below $1M revenue without clear scale potential
Companies with single-manufacturer dependency creating concentration risk
Pure software companies (we acquire businesses that DO the work, not just design or specify it)
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FAQ: The Questions Owners Actually Ask

Most process questions come up in the first conversation, but a few we hear often enough to answer here. If you don't see yours, ask us directly.

Do you acquire pure software companies in building technology?
Can I stay involved as the technical lead after the sale?
Do you have federal contracting capability?

Talk to a Buyer Built
for the Next Decade.

A confidential conversation about your business, the controls and energy transition, and what comes next.