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Salas O’Brien announced today an expanded relationship with Siemens, spanning two of the global technology leader’s core businesses positioning Salas O’Brien as a uniquely connected partner for clients navigating the future of digital infrastructure, industrial operations, and intelligent facilities. Salas O’Brien is the first firm in North America to be recognized as both a Siemens Digital Industries Solutions partner and contributor to the newly formed Siemens Smart Infrastructure Alliance Program, a distinction that reflects the breadth and depth of capabilities the firm brings across both industrial and built environment markets.

Together, these relationships expand Salas O’Brien’s ability to deliver integrated solutions for clients across built environment and industrial markets, from owners and operators of healthcare facilities, campuses, and commercial buildings seeking smarter, more efficient, and more connected operations, to manufacturers pursuing automation and digital transformation.

Smarter buildings, better outcomes

Through the alliance, Salas O’Brien and Siemens are collaborating to advance intelligent, energy-efficient, and resilient buildings and campuses across the built environment.

What it means for Salas O’Brien’s clients:

• This alliance strengthens Salas O’Brien’s ability to specify Siemens’ Building X platform, an open, cloud-based suite that connects and optimizes all building systems and assets, from HVAC and energy systems to security and vertical transportation, on a unified data-driven foundation.
• Together, the firms will deliver these capabilities to owners seeking to modernize operations, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals, including those in core markets such as healthcare, higher education, life sciences, and commercial real estate.

Accelerating industrial digital transformation

As a Siemens Digital Industries Solution Partner, Salas O’Brien is recognized for its ability to deliver industrial digital transformation at scale.

What it means for Salas O’Brien’s clients:

• This designation strengthens Salas O’Brien’s ability to deliver and integrate Siemens’ industrial automation and digital solutions across the full project lifecycle, from strategy and design through implementation and ongoing operations.
• Clients in manufacturing, life sciences, food and beverage, and other industrial sectors gain access to Siemens’ industry-leading technology portfolio, combined with Salas O’Brien’s engineering judgment and delivery experience.

“By expanding our relationship with Siemens across both industrial and smart infrastructure, we’re strengthening our ability to help clients connect their operations, facilities, and data into more intelligent and efficient environments,” said John Glenski, principal & senior director of automation and digital, Salas O’Brien.

“Salas O’Brien brings deep, practical automation execution to the table, and when that’s combined with Siemens Digital Industries’ connected automation, digital twins, and industrial AI, it creates real, measurable value for manufacturers looking to modernize at scale,” said Marla Davids, director of partner sales, Siemens Digital Industries.

“Our alliance with Salas O’Brien enhances client value by enabling earlier, more integrated collaboration in the design phase,” stated Mike Kearney, head of sales for Smart Infrastructure Buildings, USA. Together, our complementary strengths reduce cost and risk while delivering digitally enabled facilities for our clients, on our industry’s path to autonomous buildings.”

Together, these relationships position Salas O’Brien as one of the few firms equipped to serve clients across both the plant floor and the facility, bringing engineering expertise and trusted partnerships to guide them confidently into a digital future.

About Salas O’Brien

Salas O’Brien is an employee-owned engineering and technical services firm focused on advancing the human experience through the built environment. Our team is engineered for impact®, helping clients solve complex engineering challenges with a focus on efficiency, resiliency, and sustainability, while advancing our team members through growth and opportunity. We are a top firm, as ranked by Engineering News-Record and Consulting-Specifying Engineer, and we have appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of North America’s fastest-growing private companies for over a decade.

About Siemens

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable. A leader in industrial AI, Siemens leverages its deep domain know-how to apply AI – including generative AI – to real-world applications, making AI accessible and impactful for customers across diverse industries. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal year 2025, which ended on September 30, 2025, the Siemens Group USA generated revenue of $24.427 billion with 25 manufacturing sites across the U.S. and more than 50,000 employees serving customers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.