Category: O&M
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TRANSFORMING FACILITIES WITH FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS (FDD) FOR CONTINUOUS COMMISSIONING
As defined in the Federal Energy Management Program’s (FEMP) Commissioning Guidebook, Continuous Commissioning is “an ongoing process to resolve operating problems, improve comfort, optimise energy use and identify retrofits for existing commercial and institutional buildings and central plant facilities.” Where most Commissioning processes focus on bringing building operation to the original design intent, Continuous Commissioning…
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TRANSFORMING BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
FIRSTLY, HOW HAVE BMS’ EVOLVED? Building Management Systems (BMS) have come a long way since their early days, evolving from simple controls for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and lighting to sophisticated platforms for integrated building operations. Initially, BMS were designed for centralized control and scheduling, focusing on operational efficiency and cost savings. Today,…
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FACILITY SERVICE PROVIDERS: HOW TO TRANSITION TO DIAGNOSTIC-DRIVEN CONTRACTS
How are leading facility management service providers making the move to digital, proactive services. Despite the urgency required to stay ahead of the competition, these leaders have realised that transformation doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a process to move from time-based preventative maintenance contracts – or time and materials – block hours – to data-driven, proactive…
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AS CLIMATE RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES CONVERGE, REAL ESTATE TURNS AN EYE TO HVAC
With buildings driving approximately 39 percent of total global CO2 emissions, the call for aggressive action toward sustainability and net-zero carbon commitments has surged. But as an increasing number of real estate organisations accelerate ESG goals to meet this new reality head on, they must acknowledge two important facts: BUILDINGS ARE AGING According to Sustainability…
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UNLOCKING MAINTENANCE EFFICIENCY
A GUIDE TO CONDITION-BASED MAINTENANCE Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a proactive maintenance strategy that involves monitoring the real-time condition of building equipment to determine when maintenance is needed. While the concept is often discussed conceptually among operations leaders, more and more facility teams are now implementing this proactive approach to maintenance. Shifting to a condition-based…
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ASSET ASSESS INFORMATION MODEL
CONSISTENT BUILDING ANALYTICS AT SCALE Last week’s post, Poor Quality Data In ≠ Poor Quality Data Out introduced Asset Assess’ dynamic information model and the approach that makes it the most robust and conclusive in the industry. That’s a bold claim, and this blog backs up our boldness. We’ll dive deep into each component of the information model…
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“DO YOU DO A.I.?” WHAT ACTUALLY POWERS BUILDING ANALYTICS.
When we explain the Asset Assess FDD analytics platform to prospective clients and partners, one curious question is popping up more and more: Do you do A.I.? Since artificial intelligence (A.I.) has gathered lots of buzz and transformed other industries in recent years, these types of questions are understandable. And our answer? It’s an emphatic YES……
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YOU CAN’T ADDRESS INDOOR AIR QUALITY WITHOUT FDD
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) was important before the COVID-19 pandemic, but now it has become mission-critical to keeping occupants safe as more people return to the workplace. Building owners are looking for easy ways to improve IAQ performance and instead are met with a proliferation of new IAQ technologies – most with big promises and…
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POOR QUALITY DATA IN ≠ POOR QUALITY DATA OUT
When building owners invest in Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) Software, they expect results. But those results don’t come if the FDD rules produce false faults due to messy data. Real data from real buildings is imperfect at best. Data points are missing, mislabelled, or unlabelled. Data points that mean one thing on one piece…
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WHY HVAC DIAGNOSTICS MATTER FOR OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE TEAMS
AIRAH DA19 describes the minimum acceptable level of maintenance for commercial building HVAC systems. The manual prescribes all kinds of tasks that would keep the equipment and systems running at top performance. For example, these are a sample of some tasks from DA19 for a centrifugal compressor: Operations and maintenance teams can use the AIRAH…
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