In rural communities, reliable emergency response can make all the difference. Huerfano County, Colorado’s new Emergency Operations Building brings critical services together in one place, enhancing coordination, improving resilience and ensuring teams have the tools they need to serve residents when it matters most. By repurposing a historic structure, the county is also advancing downtown revitalization while reducing long-term costs and emissions. McKinstry is proud to partner with Huerfano County on this milestone project. https://lnkd.in/g-EEW9Yk
McKinstry
Construction
Seattle, WA 44,038 followers
Together, building a thriving planet
About us
We're a national construction and energy services company dedicated to innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment. Through 65 years of collaborative partnerships and an outcomes-driven focus, we're removing barriers in the way of achieving decarbonization. Constantly innovating, we work to engineer and design buildings and buildings systems that do not harm the environment. We're building the future, and we’d love to have you join us.
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- Industry
- Construction
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Seattle, WA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1960
- Specialties
- Design, Build, Operate, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Construction, Electrical Construction, Facilities Management, Industrial Construction, Energy Performance Contracting, Energy Services, Smart Buildings, Renewable Energy, Commissioning, Zero Energy, Electrical, Fire Protection, Energy Audit, Facility Condition Assessment, and Smart Grid
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Building a career on passion for design and working with those around her, Emily Wong, Mechanical Associate Engineer at McKinstry, is changing the built environment. By seeing how we can change buildings through sustainability and innovative systems, Emily is helping our clients see new potential in their facilities. https://lnkd.in/gnBFyCVM
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District energy is one of the most practical levers we have for decarbonizing dense urban campuses at scale — and it only works when partners are willing to open up real projects to real questions. Thank you to Caroline Traube, PE Traube and our partners at Amazon (Ric Cochrane, Rylee Lewis, Justin Wing) and Digital Realty (Kevin Martin), along with Skander Spies, P.E. and Devon Powell, P.E., for co-hosting the Living Future 2026 district energy tour. The best conversations in this industry happen on-site, in front of the actual systems — what's working, what's next and where collaboration moves things faster than any one team could alone. For the life of your building means designing for the district it sits in, too.
Circling back on Living Future 2026 week, our team had a great time co-hosting the Amazon–McKinstry–Clise district energy tour! Huge thanks to our partners (Ric Cochrane, Rylee Lewis, and Justin Wing at Amazon, and Kevin Martin at Digital Realty) and McKinstry colleagues (Skander Spies, P.E. and Devon Powell, P.E.) for opening up real projects and real conversations about how district energy can support decarbonization at scale across dense urban campuses and complex facilities. Thanks to all the tour attendees who asked great questions about what's working, what's next, and how collaboration and partnership accelerates progress!
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McKinstry has been named a 2026 Champion for Corporate Citizenship by the Puget Sound Business Journal, recognized for global giving. For us, philanthropy has never been a check-writing exercise — it's hands-on work, powered by our employees and tied to our commitment to drive meaningful change through strategic philanthropy and year-round volunteerism in the communities where we live and work. https://lnkd.in/g9x3GzTa
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The grid landscape is changing and the cheapest power plant is now the one you don't build. Peter Alspach captures something we believe deeply: the ability to perform demand flexibility at scale, automatically and across thousands of buildings at once is within reach. This change shifts the built environment from a demand on the grid to an active part of the solution. With electricity rates climbing across Washington State, this is exactly the kind of complex problem we love to dig into and exactly why partnership matters. Glad to see this work with Jesse Rebello and the team at Edo, and the first in Seattle 2030 District's Insights series on how buildings can help solve the grid's challenges. For the life of your building means planning for the grid it lives on, too.
What if your building could help prevent blackouts, and lower grid costs at the same time? Ahead of today’s “Good Grid Citizens: Buildings, Utilities, & the Future of Demand Flexibility” event as part of Energy Week, Peter Alspach and Jesse Rebello explore how demand flexibility and Virtual Power Plants can help buildings play a bigger role in grid resilience as electrification, EV adoption, and AI-driven demand continue to grow. Read more in our newest Industry Insight: https://lnkd.in/gBuK_uxU
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Our experiences shape how we connect, collaborate and contribute. In honor of AANHPI Heritage Month, two McKinstry employees share a candid conversation about culture, identity and belonging and how those experiences show up in the workplace. https://lnkd.in/gQij8tcj
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McKinstry was honored today to be recognized as a 2026 Champion for Corporate Citizenship by the Puget Sound Business Journal – and even more honored to be joined at the event by so many of our wonderful community partners including Treehouse, Washington Alliance for Better Schools, ANEW, PATH, Food Lifeline, Seattle Children's, Partnership4Learning, and Washington STEM. “We believe our communities deserve more than just a contractor; we’ve been actively giving for the last 65 years and have a plan to do it for another 100,” said Dean Allen accepting the award. One of McKinstry’s core values is making a positive difference, and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to support such incredible nonprofit partners nationwide. Thank you for the important work you do in our communities everyday. Jenee Myers Twitchell, Emily Yim, Karen Dove, Robyn B., Ingrid Stegemoeller, Jennifer Lowe, Ankita Aras, Leeann Huntington
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Paige Spirk helps healthcare organizations turn complex facility challenges into action. Before joining McKinstry, she spent close to two decades building deep expertise in energy performance and client partnership. Today, she works with healthcare clients across Colorado to deliver upgrades that support patient care and long-term performance. https://lnkd.in/gu9Qd-Xw
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Communities are facing rising energy demand, increasing costs and more complex systems all at once. Solving these challenges will take more than one perspective. As part of the newly announced Novara Energy Alliance, McKinstry is working alongside regional leaders to turn energy innovation into practical, scalable solutions. https://lnkd.in/gMQfJ6vg
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Denver is putting more than $5 million into energy upgrades across public buildings, moving from climate planning to climate action under Energize Denver. After completing detailed energy audits across 70 facilities, McKinstry turned those findings into a capital plan aligned with long-term emissions goals. Now upgrades are underway, including high-efficiency lighting, weatherization and system tune-ups in buildings residents use every day. https://lnkd.in/g4nxckFj
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