The following problems and projects have generated a major percentage of BSI's work.

• Warped floors.
• High Energy bills.
• Building Durability
• Health-threatening mold
• Faulty HVAC installation
• Over-coming broken building codes
• Under-incentivized "energy-efficiency" retrofits
• Designing in better electricity reliability, power quality and resilience.
• Designing buildings that protect people even when the lights go out.
• ​Enhancing the economics of rooftop solar

The follow problems and projects are expected to generate a major percentage of BSI's work in the future.

• Electricity Rate Design.
• Lowering Demand Charges for commercial customers
• Community Solar, i.e., a solar array shared by many customers
• Replacing "Net Energy Metering" without using subsidies or taxes
• Increasing Utility Profit while decreasing customer energy bills
• Providing economic niches for inventions in appliance manufacturing
• Assisting Architects and other building energy designers to create better buildings into the future.
• Assisting in the redefinition of what is and how to do Integrated Resource Planning.
• Integrated Resource Planning by Market-Based Acquisition
• Demand Side Management reimagined to focus upon Primary Energy Conservation
• Avoiding and reversing Grid Defection
• ​Grow the economy while cutting carbon.