GTI International Acquires CDH To Expand, Strengthen Offerings

Gas Technology Institute (GTI; Des Plaines, Ill.) subsidiary GTI International has acquired CDH Corp. (Cazenovia, N.Y.), a professional services firm specializing in monitoring and evaluating energy technologies related to building efficiency, combined heat and power (CHP), fuel cell, and solar power performance. For more than 20 years, CDH Corp. has offered field testing, deployment, monitoring, analysis, and reporting for emerging technologies, with a focus on the distributed generation and CHP markets.

CDH offers a variety of energy efficiency services, including third-party performance monitoring and reporting via a Web interface, designing and implementing custom data acquisition systems, or working within existing control systems to gather information. The company develops and executes measurement and verification plans, and provides energy simulations on building systems and equipment.
“We are very pleased to be adding the CDH Energy team to the GTI family,” said Ron Snedic, GTI International president and vice president of corporate development at GTI. “This addition will strengthen our capabilities and offerings in the growing energy efficiency space. CDH is a great fit with GTI’s Emerging Technology Program and subsidiary Fisher-Nickel. We’ll leverage the capabilities, locations, and relationships of these organizations to dramatically increase the services we can provide to our clients.”