Why BPV · The person behind the practice
I’m Marcus Myers, founder of BPV Academy, the learning and development platform from BPV Solutions. I help individuals and teams understand building systems, make better technical decisions and grow into greater responsibility. My teaching draws on active practice in commissioning, energy, controls, systems integration and construction quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC), along with university teaching, team leadership and business ownership.
My why
People gave me their time, shared what they knew and helped me grow. I have never forgotten that. Teaching gives me a way to pass it on.
When I went back to school around age 30, I saw a gap between the classroom and the field. I kept working, kept learning and kept looking for better ways to connect the two.
That became the reason for BPV. The knowledge we earn on projects should help someone else move forward. A new person should have a path into the work. An experienced person should have room to keep growing.
I enjoy the moment something clicks. When someone can explain why a system behaves the way it does, ask a better question or help a teammate, the learning has become useful.
That is the relationship I want to build with you and your team.
Let’s talk about your people“That is exactly why I teach and train today. So the next generation does not have to learn every lesson the hard way.”
Marcus Myers · Founder, BPV AcademyCourse creation · ASU teaching · Cx Devils
Marcus helped build commissioning education at Arizona State University’s Del E. Webb School of Construction from the ground up. He developed introductory and advanced Cx coursework and continues to teach it, bringing decades of professional practice into undergraduate and graduate learning.
The contribution behind the title
Marcus advocated for commissioning in the university curriculum before the first class. Course development began in 2018 with ASU’s construction faculty and grew into introductory and advanced Cx. Students work with project documents and learn to connect building systems, owner requirements, QA/QC, controls, testing and professional judgment.
Marcus uses analogies and real project stories to give unfamiliar ideas a reference point. Students practice asking better questions, explaining cause and effect, recognizing warning signs and making decisions they can defend. BPV brings that approach to your development: understand the work, practice it and learn from feedback.
ASU appointment: Faculty Associate, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment.
View Marcus’s ASU teaching profileIn Marcus’s words
Marcus Myers
After nearly a decade of teaching, every class still makes me both the teacher and the student. By my estimate, close to 1,000 students have been part of my teaching over those years. They bring questions, experiences and ways of seeing a problem that make me think harder and explain it better.
Some of those former students are now colleagues. We work together, trade project stories and keep learning from each other. Watching someone I once taught find their voice and build a career is an honor. So is getting to be part of their story.
Mechanical and electrical systems. Building enclosures. Controls and energy. Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR) and Basis of Design (BOD). Readiness, testing, communication, risk and business judgment. Students learn how decisions connect across disciplines.
What Marcus teachesStudent Cx binders connect requirements, documentation and verification. Negar Hojjati publicly shared the binder she developed in the advanced course and described how her understanding grew.
See the student’s work and reflectionMarcus mentored Haley DeVore in turning a shared vision into ASU’s Sun Devil Building Commissioning Club. Cx Devils is student-led, connecting students with industry speakers, professional relationships and leadership opportunities. BPV Academy and Streamline Automation support that work.
How Marcus and the students built Cx Devils Meet the Cx DevilsA student’s public reflection
“I honestly learned more than I ever expected from a university lecture. Your passion and clarity made a huge impact.”
Negar Hojjati · Advanced Commissioning student
Read the original reflectionStarting without prior Cx knowledge
“To be honest, when I enrolled in the class I really didn’t know what commissioning was. That quickly came to change.”
Daniel Lage · ASU Intro to Building Commissioning student · Spring 2023 reflection
Read Daniel’s original course reflection
Student-led Cx community · Founded in 2026
After years of supporting student commissioning education, Marcus founded Cx Devils in 2026. He mentored Haley DeVore in bringing the vision to life, with students leading the club and its activities.
Industry leaders and working practitioners join students for talks, Q&A and conversations about real projects. Students can ask questions, hear how careers develop and start building professional relationships with the people doing the work.
BPV Academy sponsors Cx Devils, supporting student leadership and connections between the classroom and industry. Streamline Automation also supports the club’s work.
In development · The wider BPV Academy community
Our goal is to make BPV Academy one place to find practical training, useful explanations, experienced mentors and a community to keep learning with.
Start with what people need to understand. Give them useful practice, honest feedback and someone they can keep learning with.
The experience behind the teaching
Marcus brings the responsibilities of technical delivery, team leadership and business ownership into the classroom. He still works through the same kinds of decisions your people face.
Active practice in Cx, controls, integration, energy and building performance. Connecting technical decisions with the people responsible for delivering them.
Founder of BPV Solutions and BPV Academy’s training practice. Faculty Associate at Arizona State University’s Del E. Webb School of Construction.
Commissioning and Energy Auditing leadership across teams and offices. Experience building a shared approach while responding to different project and client needs.
Commissioning and energy services leadership, connecting regional delivery, client relationships and the development of the people doing the work.
Construction, design and building performance: Marcus’s professional experience spans the work of designing, building, commissioning and operating facilities. Architecture and building energy studies added another way to understand what happens in the field.
CCRD / WSP: Commissioning and energy services work brought together technical delivery, field coordination, client requirements and team development.
Stantec: Regional and later global Cx and energy leadership added the responsibility of helping teams deliver consistently across projects and offices. That included technical work, client development, project management and developing people.
Today, SLA and BPV: As Streamline Automation’s Partner and CTO, Marcus continues to work in Cx, controls, integration and energy. Through BPV, he turns that experience into training, coaching and mentoring for individuals and organizations.
Teaching alongside practice: ASU course creation, university instruction and student mentorship have developed alongside his industry work. The classroom benefits from current projects; the field benefits from asking how to explain the work clearly.
Mentorship in practice: When former ASU student AJ Ladd attended his first ASHRAE commissioning committee meetings in Austin, Marcus introduced him to practitioners and the people developing the guidance. Learning continues through those conversations and relationships.
A practitioner who teaches
Marcus’s experience connects construction, design, Cx, energy, automation and technical leadership. Your team learns how one decision affects the next discipline and the people who operate the building.
Quality planning, installation checks, technical reviews, deviations, issue closure and traceable readiness evidence. Coordinate quality and Cx while respecting the responsibilities of each.
New and existing buildings, retro-Cx, ongoing Cx, mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, functional testing, integrated response and operational readiness.
Master systems integration, owner requirements, interfaces, naming, data quality and coordination across vendors and platforms.
Building automation systems (BAS), programmable logic controllers (PLCs), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), instrumentation, sequences, point verification and the connection between the screen and physical performance.
Roof, wall, opening and below-grade assemblies. Connect air, water and thermal performance with design, installation and verification.
Facility, property and building condition assessments (FCA, PCA and BCA). Understand condition, risk, maintenance needs and priorities.
Energy audits, building performance, modeling, controls optimization, metering, analytics and verification of improvement.
Training connects these practice areas with leadership, communication, project management and business development. The program is shaped around the work your team needs to perform.
Student perspectives
These student reflections describe what helped them connect with Marcus’s ASU teaching.
“Connecting the topics to things we are already familiar with has definitely helped.”
Bryan Chavez · ASU student
“Making complex ideas feel intuitive and straightforward.”
Marat Assanov · ASU graduate student
Student comments on Marcus’s ASU teaching, shared in the BPV Academy presentation.
ASHRAE expertise · From process to practice
Marcus chairs the 0.3P and 1.7P efforts, contributes to 1.6P and serves as a voting member of SSPC 300. That work informs how he connects requirements, quality, controls and operating performance.
Keeping previously commissioned buildings aligned with current facility requirements.
BPV connection: metering, controls, analytics, maintenance and people form a continuing improvement cycle.
Applying the Cx process to data center support infrastructure.
BPV connection: the power path, heat-removal path and operating response must be understood together.
Applying Cx across fabrication facilities, supporting utilities and tool integration.
BPV connection: facility systems, automation, quality and operations affect the same production environment.
The wider foundation: Guideline 0, Guideline 0.2 and SSPC 300 participation connect new, existing and ongoing Cx. Training distinguishes the process, the project requirements and the evidence needed to support a decision.
ASHRAE lists 0.3P, 1.6P and 1.7P as proposed guidelines. Its public-review portal lists 1.6P for first publication public review, October 2–November 16, 2026. Status checked November 6, 2026. The learning examples above describe BPV’s teaching approach, not quotations or new requirements from a draft guideline.
ASHRAE titles, purposes and scopes ASHRAE public reviewBPV Academy is an independent training provider. Marcus’s committee roles do not imply ASHRAE endorsement of BPV training.
Contributing to the profession
Marcus’s service spans ASHRAE student leadership beginning in 2010, past presidency of the BCxA Southwest Chapter, and standards and education work across the profession. That experience brings different perspectives into what you and your team learn.
Chair of Guideline 0.3P on ongoing Cx and Guideline 1.7P on semiconductor fabrication facilities.
Explore the committee work ISPEEducation Chair of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering’s Southwest Chapter. Connects practitioners and students around technical learning for pharmaceutical and life-sciences facilities.
See the education role ASTM INTERNATIONALASTM committee participation in E06 and E06.55. Connects the performance of walls, roofs and other enclosure systems with design, construction, testing and operation.
View professional background IBPSA-USAPhoenix chapter founding and leadership within the International Building Performance Simulation Association’s U.S. affiliate. Connects people around using models to understand and improve building performance.
Read about the chapter’s startEducation and practice: Marcus’s ASU education in architecture and building energy systems connects the design of a building with the way it actually performs. His career also includes technical delivery, client development, team leadership and business ownership.
Building Commissioning Association (BCxA): Past Southwest Chapter President and board member. His service includes helping practitioners share experience and helping build the ASU BCxA student chapter, connecting students with the profession.
Living Building Challenge: Ambassador and facilitator experience, including service as co-chair of the Sonoran Collaborative from 2018 to 2021. This work connects buildings with energy, resources, environmental responsibility and the people who use them.
ASHRAE service dating to 2010: ASU student chapter president from 2010 to 2013; Central Arizona chapter secretary in 2016–2017; student-activities leadership from 2017 to 2020; and government-affairs leadership in 2019–2020. That path continued into technical committees and the commissioning guideline work described above.
ASTM, ISPE and IBPSA: The roles above connect enclosure performance, pharmaceutical-industry education and building simulation with Marcus’s wider work in Cx, controls, energy and integration. They bring more perspectives into the way he teaches you to investigate a problem.
What that means for you: You can work with someone who teaches the technical work and the responsibilities around it: asking useful questions, explaining decisions, coordinating with others, developing client relationships and leading a team.
On stage · Phoenix · November 4–5, 2026
Conference Chair, panel moderator and session presenter at Future Bridge’s 8th U.S. Semiconductor Design, Construction & Engineering Summit.
From construction completion to production readiness, Marcus connects Cx, facility delivery and the people responsible for making it work. Speaking, moderating and teaching are opportunities to share lessons and learn from others.
Explore the summitAuthor & contributing editor
Marcus contributes to AutomatedBuildings.com, writing about the connections between construction, controls, Cx, systems integration and the people who make them work.
Your go-to training partner
Tell me where your people are getting stuck. I will talk with you, talk with the trainees and help work through what they need next.
A good question often comes after someone tries the work. I provide follow-up coaching so learners can ask questions, review their reasoning and work through the gaps they encounter.
BPV gives your organization a continuing relationship that develops the people, supports your managers and strengthens the team.
We agree the sessions, check-ins and support around your team’s needs and availability.
Your people. Your priorities.
Start with a conversation about the people, the knowledge and the work you want to improve.