Sciens Building Solutions

Sciens Building Solutions

Sciens Building Solutions, headquartered in Pleasanton, California, brings together fire protection and security services for commercial, institutional, and government clients. The firm was assembled through a series of acquisitions — it prominently references 'Acquisitions' in company materials and lists a deep board of eight directors, including industry operators Roger Fradin and Mark Levy. The business employs over 2,000 people and maintains more than 750 field technicians nationally, covering installation, monitoring, testing, and maintenance. Sciens delivers fire alarm and detection systems, sprinkler and suppression installations, backflow preventers, kitchen hood systems, extinguishers, emergency lighting, and central-station monitoring. On the security side, the firm offers communication and electrical systems. Case studies on its site show work for the Baltimore Museum of Art, a 41-floor REIT high-rise, and The Academy of Notre Dame in Pennsylvania. The geographic footprint spans the United States, with technicians functioning as local experts inside a single national organization that targets verticals from healthcare and education to data centers and industrial facilities. The leadership team under CEO Terry Heath includes CFO Michael Grigsby, COO Kurt Schoonover, and four vice presidents overseeing operations, business development, and human capital. Eight external board members — among them Jim Mahoney, Dean Seavers, Greg Nikodem, Henrik Slipsager, Irma Shrivastava, and Katherine Barasch — join Heath on the board, signaling private-capital governance. No fund-level AUM, deployment total, or aged private-equity vehicle is disclosed, consistent with a buy-and-build services platform that scales through add-on acquisitions rather than closed-end fund commitments. Where most fire-and-security contractors operate as local owner-operator businesses, Sciens compresses a national service roster into what it calls the 'Sciens Service Suite' — a single point of contact with unified billing for routine compliance tasks. The structure transforms inspection-driven work into a recurring-service contract on a single pane of glass, creating an operational moat that independent shops rarely replicate.