12 Block Solutions helps facility stakeholders make informed maintenance, repair, budgeting, risk management, and capital planning decisions through independent facility assessments, thermal imaging, and aerial data collection.
We provide objective information regarding asset condition, helping organizations reduce uncertainty before making significant maintenance and capital investment decisions. Our role is not to repair assets or profit from construction outcomes. Our role is to provide independent information that supports better decisions.
01. Our Approach
Every assessment begins with the understanding that our clients are making important decisions regarding expensive assets. We combine independent assessment, thermal imaging, visual documentation, and professional analysis to provide objective information that supports maintenance, repair, budgeting, risk management, and capital planning decisions.
02. Our Mission
We aim to deliver independent facility assessment and decision support services using advanced imaging technology and expert analysis to optimize asset management, enhance efficiency, and empower clients with actionable insights.
03. Our Vision
To become the trusted independent facility assessment and decision-support resource organizations call when they need confidence in maintenance, repair, budgeting, risk management, and capital planning decisions involving critical assets.
Founder and ceo
Aviation Subject Matter Expert
Brian Ellis, phD
Founder and CEO
Brian is a seasoned aviation professional with over 23 years of experience as a UH-60 and MH-60M Black Hawk pilot. A retired Chief Warrant Officer 5 (CW5) and Master Army Aviator, he served in the U.S. Army as an instructor pilot, instrument flight examiner, and maintenance test pilot, with combat deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Turkey. He also performed disaster relief efforts along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. As a member of the elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), he specialized in long range, precision rotary wing assaults. During his time as a conventional force aviator, he performed the aeromedical evacuation, VIP transport, air assault, and special operations missions.
Brian holds a Ph.D. in Higher Educational Leadership from TUI, an M.A. in Aviation Education, and a B.S. in Professional Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He also holds an FAA Airline Transport Pilot-Helicopter and Certified Flight Instructor – Instrument, an NVG Instructor endorsement and an SUAS Remote Pilot certificate. His PhD. research explored the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Aviators and its Correlation with Flying Hour Experience.
After retiring from the US Army, Brian worked as a management consultant advising middle market manufacturers how to optimize all aspects of their business to propel his clients to a place of global competitiveness.
Beyond his professional achievements, Brian mentors the next generation of aviators, coaching pilots on mental performance and confidence in aviation. He lives in Southeastern Michigan with his wife, Beth who is also a former Black Hawk pilot, and their two young children.
Brian founded 12 Block Solutions to provide facility stakeholders with the same disciplined assessment, risk management, and decision-making approach developed over more than two decades in military aviation. Today, the company helps organizations better understand asset condition and reduce uncertainty before making significant maintenance and capital planning decisions.
12 Block Solutions LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business certified by the Small Business Administration.
