Pierce and Associates is a full service consulting firm that provides energy management and facility planning services. The Company specializes in working with K-12 School Districts. Founded in 1994 by Sue Pierce, CPA, Principal, Pierce and Associates provides organizations with a full range of energy management services in the following areas:

¨       Energy Benchmarking
¨       Energy Bill Data Services
¨       Energy Audits
¨       Energy Planning
¨       Energy Reporting Software 

In addition, Pierce and Associates provides a variety of facility planning services including:

¨       Building Condition Assessments
¨       Facility Planning
¨       Demographic research
¨       Sustainability Consulting
¨       Pre-Construction Services
¨       Bond Referendum Consultation 

Pierce and Associates began in the Midwest in 1994 as a consulting firm providing marketing, strategic planning, re-engineering, and pre-construction services to public and private sector organizations. Her clients included Gateway 2000, Terra Chemical, Chambers of Commerce, Goodwill Industries, United Way, St. Luke’s Regional Health Center, various school districts, state and local government agencies, candidates for public office and referendum campaign committees. The Company was re-located to Arizona in 2007. 

Sue Pierce, founder and principal of Pierce and Associates, has undergraduate degrees in political science, ac­counting and German and a Masters degree in Public Admin­istration. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Over the last 14 years she has worked extensively with local governments and school districts in the areas of facility plan­ning, pre-construction services and process re-engineering. In addition, she has operated a division within Pierce and Associates that provides complete support services to political candidates and referendum com­mittees. Most recently, she has expanded her service offerings to include energy and sustainability consulting. 

Pierce and Associates wrote and coordinated the ef­fort in the Iowa legislature to pass a one cent local option sales tax to be used exclusively for the construction, expansion and remodeling of K-12 schools in Iowa. The legislation was signed into law in May, 1998, and has revitalized and reenergized school construction in that state which had numerous old schools and an aging demographic.