Design, Construction, Maintenance, and Commissioning for the Energy Sector
Z&F Consulting is an engineering and construction management practice focused on the energy sector, headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2001, it maintains a multidisciplinary staff of engineers and construction professionals operating across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection disciplines. The practice designs and constructs cogeneration and central utility plants, performs high-fidelity feasibility modeling, executes energy audits, conducts commissioning, and provides specialized expert witness services for power plant disputes.
John ZabilowiczPrincipal / Co-Founder
Brian FlynnPrincipal / Co-Founder
Z&F Consulting utilizes custom proprietary software to model cogeneration facilities for thermal usage, utility costs, and operating costs across 8,760 hourly data points, typically predicting actual results within five percent.
Professional engineering services for HVAC, central utilities, and process systems.
Professional engineering services for normal and emergency power, lighting, and control systems up to 69kV distribution.
Professional plumbing engineering for labs, hospitals, and commercial buildings.
Life safety and fire protection design including code analysis for new and existing facilities.
Comprehensive energy surveys and evaluations of individual buildings or entire campuses. The practice analyzes facilities as fully functioning integrated systems to capture cascading savings from interrelated systems like lighting and HVAC.
Provides construction management and oversight for energy plant and MEP projects.
Verifies that new or retrofitted energy plants plus mechanical and electrical infrastructure operate as designed.
Forensic expertise and expert witness testimony for energy plant construction disputes, covering ROI analysis, SCADA systems, power station construction, and commissioning claims.
Power Generation · Industrial · Healthcare · Education · Food & Beverage · Wastewater · Legal
Rahway, NJ · Wastewater · Client: Rahway Valley Sewer Authority
Provided forensic engineering expertise to investigate the return on investment (ROI) calculations for a recently installed 6 MW cogeneration plant. The analysis covered treatment plant throughput, staffing, maintenance schedules, energy balances, and system controls.
Alberta, Canada · Power Generation · Client: Voith
Delivered expert witness reports and testimony for a multimillion-dollar claim involving the construction of a large power station exceeding 1000 MVAR. The investigation addressed construction cost overruns and assessed mechanical construction means, methods, scheduling, and engineering.
Sayreville, NJ · Wastewater · Client: Spectraserv, Inc.
Provided forensic engineering expertise and expert witness testimony regarding a dispute over the engineering and installation of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system at a sewage treatment facility.
Canada · Power Generation · Client: Stuart Olson, Inc.
Provided expert witness reports and testimony for a multimillion-dollar construction dispute involving a power station exceeding 1000 MVAR, analyzing electrical construction methods, scheduling, and cost overruns.