McKinstry named a Puget Sound Business Journal newsmaker of 2009
December 2009
Innovators (in’-oh-vay’-ters) n. 1 leaders notable for their creativity or striking advances [Business Journal usage].
So begins Puget Sound Business Journal’s spotlight of McKinstry, suggesting that when one looks up Innovator in the dictionary, pictures of Dean and David Allen will be there. Extraordinary men though they may be, the Allen brothers didn’t achieve Newsmaker status alone, and they would be the first to credit the people of McKinstry for the distinction.
In existence for nearly 50 years, McKinstry has innovated its way to being the premier mechanical, construction, energy, and facility services firm in the Pacific Northwest. An integrated delivery approach to providing building services ensures that McKinstry clients have a single point of responsibility that drives down costs, drives out inefficiencies, and ensures performance outcomes. Strongly committed to sustainability in the built environment, and meeting the challenges of climate change, McKinstry has established itself as an energy efficiency thought leader. The company has been recognized as such by none other than the President of the United States, who lauded it as a “model for the nation” in 2008.
Even as the country experienced an economic downturn, McKinstry continued on a path of growth, experiencing a solid 2009. In January the company won a $5 billion IDIQ (Indefinite delivery indefinite quantity) to improve federal building efficiency, was selected Seattle City Light’s partner to build a smart grid on the University of Washington Seattle campus; and built a McKinstry Innovation Center at its Corporate Headquarters to incubate clean tech entrepreneurs. Now that the Washington State legislature has passed a sweeping energy-efficiency bill, McKinstry and other companies like it, stand to gain more work heading into 2010.
Source: http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/12/21/focus5.html
