Thrive Buildings Launches as Independent Company to Accelerate Its Growth
NORWOOD, Mass., USA – October 15, 2025 – Thrive Buildings announced today its incorporation as an independent company which will help accelerate growth and provide a foundational platform to expand over the next decade, delivering turnkey managed services solutions directly to clients to optimize operations, reduce energy spend, upgrade aging critical facilities, embed sustainable technologies, and most importantly, improve health, safety, and compliance outcomes.
As part of the transition, several team members have moved from Aircuity into key roles at Thrive Buildings, ensuring continuity of expertise and execution capabilities. Dan Diehl, formerly CEO of Aircuity, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Thrive Buildings, leading the new organization’s strategy and growth. Diehl will remain active with Aircuity, supporting its continued technology evolution and the new CPO/CTO.
Thrive was created to remove the friction holding organizations back from truly optimizing their critical facilities. After more than a decade of experience and seeing that less than 10% of the overall market has achieved what others have already demonstrated Thrive was founded on the idea of providing a turnkey, simple, and relatively quick approach to deliver measurable and rapid ROI for owners and operators of critical and mission-critical facility assets.
Thrive sees a rapid growth opportunity due to several compounding influences, including an aging and stressed power grid (normal growth now with AI demand), reduction in F&A recoverable costs for higher educational research, energy resiliency, and strong and growing demand for operational efficiency while maintaining compliance and safety.
“Thrive Buildings was created to help our customers meet the changing demands of research,” said Dan Diehl, CEO of Thrive Buildings. “We’re excited about the market adoption of Thrive and it tells us that we are listening to our customers. Offering turnkey solutions with an innovative and shared risk model makes large-scale programmatic efficiency achievable and although Thrive was started before today’s widespread Higher Educational research funding cuts, it is extremely well positioned and experienced to assist universities now with their almost mandated requirement to dramatically reduce operating costs. Being involved in the built environment for over 30 years I have never seen a more important and urgent time to optimize the future of these critical assets and to be able to do this in a win-win-win approach making success for all much for achievable.”
Thrive’s approach is technology-agnostic but with a strong belief that the future of smart buildings and the potential of AI lies in the adoption of an Independent Data Layer (IDL). As part of its growth, Thrive is taking an active role in helping our clients achieve this vision. Thrive will continue to leverage Aircuity and other ECM’s that help fund these improvements and Aircuity will continue to operate as an independent brand with a world-class global representative distribution and execution network.
With a focus on optimization across a wide range of operational aspects, Thrive Buildings is redefining how institutions modernize and manage their critical environments.