Tag: operation & maintenance
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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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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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THE CRITICAL ROLE OF O&M IN ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND DECARBONISATION
There are many facilities organisations wrestling with multi-decade plans to achieve net-zero and decarbonisation targets. Often, these energy management goals are driven by significant capital project evaluations. How are we going to decarbonise our gas consumption on campus? How can we shift our electrical loads to renewable generation? While, of course, these large-scale capital projects…
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