TiePoint-bkm Engineering

What TiePoint-bkm Engineering does

TiePoint-bkm Engineering, doing business as BKM (legal name Burdette, Koehler, Murphy & Associates), is a privately held engineering consultancy founded in 1994 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, with additional offices in Norfolk, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina. The firm operates exclusively in the mission-critical facilities engineering domain, serving hyperscale and colocation data center operators as well as owners of corporate critical infrastructure across the United States. Its core offering is the design, commissioning, and reliability assessment of facilities requiring the highest levels of availability and performance, with service modules spanning design, commissioning, Continuous Availability Reviews™, power system studies, CFD-based cooling optimization, strategic infrastructure planning, operations solutions, and engineering forensics.

The firm's technical approach relies on principal-level involvement across every project phase — from concept and factory testing through construction-phase services, site acceptance testing, integrated commissioning, and operator training — rather than delegation to junior staff. BKM's engineers hold accreditations including Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer and are active in ASHRAE TC 9.9 (Mission Critical Facilities and Data Centers) and TC 7.9/SPC 1.6 (Data Center Cx). Since April 2023, TiePoint-bkm has operated as a BKM Affiliated Company, combining capabilities under the BKM brand.

Commercially, TiePoint-bkm generates revenue through project-based professional services engagements sold via direct enterprise field sales to hyperscale and colocation clients. With 11-50 employees and no public pricing, no funding events, and no disclosed financials, the firm operates as a boutique consultancy whose revenue is anchored to multi-year, lifecycle-stage relationships with a small set of large enterprise customers. Distribution is entirely domestic (United States), and lead generation leans on industry organization participation, thought leadership, and referrals rather than digital marketing channels.

Name

TiePoint-bkm Engineering

Legal name

Burdette, Koehler, Murphy & Associates

Website

https://tiepoint-bkm.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TiePoint-bkm Engineering is a privately held US mission-critical facilities engineering consultancy, operating as a BKM Affiliated Company, that provides design, commissioning, and reliability assessment services for hyperscale and colocation data center operators from offices in Baltimore, Norfolk, and Raleigh.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Baltimore

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Engineering Professional Services: Project-based engineering services including design, commissioning, assessments, and strategic infrastructure planning for mission-critical facilities. Revenue is generated through long-term client relationships where BKM serves as a partner throughout the facility lifecycle, often retained to develop operational procedures and demonstrate procedures with Owner Facilities Personnel.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

TiePoint-bkm Engineering is a specialty engineering services firm that designs, commissions, assesses, and optimizes mission-critical facilities, most notably data centers. Its service portfolio spans design, commissioning, assessments (including its proprietary Continuous Availability Reviews™), strategic infrastructure planning, power system studies, CFD-based cooling modeling, operations solutions, and forensics services. Engagements are delivered directly to enterprise data center operators, colocation providers, and owners of corporate critical facilities.

Product overview

TiePoint-bkm Engineering, operating as a BKM Affiliated Company, provides engineering services for mission-critical facilities. The offering is structured as a single unified engineering consultancy practice with multiple specialized service modules. The core Mission Critical Facilities Engineering service encompasses design, commissioning, and assessment of data centers, supported by specialized modules including Commissioning, Design, Assessments (including Continuous Availability Reviews™), Strategic Infrastructure Planning, Power System Studies, CFD Modeling and Cooling Optimization, Operations Solutions, and Forensics. These services are delivered by a team of subject matter experts with principal-level involvement throughout project lifecycles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mission Critical Facilities Engineering Core engineering practice covering the design, evaluation, and lifecycle support of mission-critical facilities such as data centers, providing integrated engineering services to enterprise data center operators, colocation providers, and corporate critical facility owners.
• Design Services for Critical Facilities Engineering design services for mission-critical facilities, supporting new construction and retrofit projects for data center operators and critical facility owners.
• Commissioning Services Independent commissioning of critical facility systems, including integrated commissioning covering mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, delivered to data center operators, colocation providers, and corporate critical facility owners.
• Continuous Availability Reviews™ (Assessments) Proprietary structured assessment service that evaluates the availability posture of mission-critical facilities, providing clients with a repeatable framework for diagnosing and improving uptime performance.
• Strategic Infrastructure Planning Long-range planning service for owners of mission-critical facilities, addressing capacity, growth, and infrastructure investment strategies for data center and critical facility operators.
• Power System Studies Electrical engineering studies analyzing power systems within mission-critical facilities, supporting reliability, code compliance, and performance evaluation for data center and critical facility operators.
• CFD Modeling and Cooling Optimization Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling and cooling optimization services for mission-critical facilities, used to evaluate airflow and thermal performance in data centers and other critical environments.
• Operations Solutions Engineering support for the ongoing operation of mission-critical facilities, helping operators improve reliability and efficiency across the operational lifecycle of data centers and other critical environments.
• Forensics Services Forensic engineering services for mission-critical facilities, supporting root-cause analysis of incidents and failures in data centers and other uptime-critical environments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100 Continuous Availability Reviews of corporate critical facilities completed in the United States

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• TiePoint-bkmcoreOthersTiePoint-bkm is now a BKM Affiliated Company. This affiliation combines TiePoint-bkm's capabilities with BKM's Mission Critical expertise, expanding the combined Mission Critical portfolio and capabilities for data center engineering services.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Syska Hennessy Group: MEP engineering firm with a dedicated Critical Facilities / Data Center practice serving hyperscale and colocation operators. Most directly comparable to TiePoint-bkm in mission-critical facility design and commissioning scope.
• Affiliated Engineers (AEI): Multi-discipline engineering firm with a strong Mission Critical practice. Closely comparable to TiePoint-bkm on engineering services for high-availability facilities and similar principal-led delivery model.
• ME Engineers: Boutique-to-mid-sized MEP engineering firm with a strong data center / mission-critical practice. Comparable in service scope and client type to TiePoint-bkm, though at somewhat larger scale.
• Salas O'Brien: Engineering services firm with growing mission-critical facilities capabilities serving data center clients. Comparable to TiePoint-bkm on engineering service model, with a broader industry footprint.
• EXP: Multi-disciplinary engineering services firm with data center and mission-critical facility work. Comparable to TiePoint-bkm on facility engineering services for hyperscale and colocation operators.
• NV5 Global: Technical engineering and consulting firm with infrastructure and critical facilities capabilities. Comparable to TiePoint-bkm in providing specialized engineering services to data center and infrastructure clients.

Broad incumbents

• HDR: Large global engineering firm with an established Mission Critical / Data Center practice (incorporating legacy EYP MCF capabilities). Comparable to TiePoint-bkm in mission-critical design but at materially greater scale and breadth.
• Jacobs Solutions: Global engineering and professional services giant with significant data center and critical facilities work. Overlaps with TiePoint-bkm on mission-critical design and program management but at much broader portfolio scale.
• WSP: Global engineering consultancy with mission-critical and data center capabilities. Competes with TiePoint-bkm for hyperscale facility design work as part of a much wider property and buildings portfolio.
• Stantec: Global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm with a Data Center / Mission Critical practice. Comparable to TiePoint-bkm on critical facility engineering, though typically operating as part of multi-disciplinary programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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