Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau Competitors

Horizon Engineering Associates (HEA) was founded in 1995 to help owners improve the operation and performance of their buildings. Over the last 25 years HEA has grown in size and offerings, but our core service remains the same: building commissioning for new construction and existing buildings. With 11 offices across the country, we are one of the largest firms dedicated to commissioning services and remain committed to our original goal: getting building systems to work as intended. Throughout our commissioning process, we guide, advise, define, document, test and verify. As a pioneer, HEA commissioned the nation's first green residential high-rise building, which is also a model of sustainable design and construction principles. We continue to actively participate in the future of Commissioning and Sustainable Design through the high standards of our own practice, and through leadership in industry organizations such as the U.S. Green Building Council and the Building Commissioning Association.

Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) provides consulting, engineering, information technology and education solutions that deliver lasting results for private industry, public entities, government organizations, and the military. The quality, expertise, and dedication of our employees enables Life Cycle Engineering to serve as a trusted resource for reliability consulting and services, information technology, engineering and technical services, integrated logistics support services, program support services, and education. We’re 100% employee owned, and we take a people-first, “guide by the side” approach.

EDS was started in 1962 by H. Ross Perot.[1] Perot’s goal was to establish a company that offered high-end electronic data processing management personnel, along with the computer hardware, by targeting large corporations and by offering long-term contracts at a time when short-term contracts were the industry norm. The creation of Medicare in 1965 gave EDS an opportunity to enter government contracting, and by 1968 Medicare and Medicaid contracts provided about 25 percent of EDS revenues. By 1977, healthcare-claims processing accounted for nearly 40 percent of EDS revenues. In 1984, General Motors agreed to buy EDS for $2.5 billion. In 1996, GM spun off EDS again as an independent company, and then became one of its largest clients. On May 13, 2008, Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed that it had reached a deal with Electronic Data Systems to acquire the company for $13.9 billion.[2] The deal was completed on August 26, 2008. EDS became an HP business unit and was temporarily renamed "EDS, an HP company". Ronald A. Rittenmeyer, EDS Chairman, President, and CEO, remained at the helm and reported to HP CEO Mark Hurd until his retirement.[3] As of 2008, EDS employed 139,000 people in 64 countries, the largest locations being the United States, India and the UK. It was ranked as one of the largest service companies on the Fortune 500 list with around 2,000 clients.