By: Douglas Frey, PE, LEED AP, Vice President Increasingly, engineers and their clients are discussing electrification mandates, performance-based energy codes, and AI-enabled modeling tools. Individually, none of these factors are new. What is new is how they are...
By: Douglas Frey, PE, LEED AP, Vice President In the world of building automation systems (BAS), the network topology you choose can make or break your system’s performance, scalability, and ease of maintenance. Whether you're working with legacy systems or designing...
By: Douglas Frey, PE, LEED AP, Vice President Let’s be honest: Designing a building automation system (BAS) today isn’t just about controlling HVAC and lighting. It’s about navigating firewalls, VLANs, cybersecurity frameworks, and cloud policies. If you’re an...
By: John Villani, PE, CCP, CEM, LEED AP, Vice President The Rise of AI in Commissioning After recently attending two great conferences, NexusCon and the Building Commissioning Association Annual Conference, I can attest that any session with AI in the title was...
The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) and the Building Commissioning Association (BCxA) recently released “Health Care Facility Commissioning Handbook (Second Edition): Best Practices for Optimizing Building System Performance in New and Existing...
A New Tool for Simple Laboratory Energy Audits The Labs2Zero decarbonization initiative of the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) has launched the Actionable Insights and Measures (AIM) Report tool. This automated energy audit software...
Why the Standard Is a Game-Changer for Building Health and What It Means for Your Facilities In the wake of the pandemic and rising concerns about airborne pathogens, indoor air quality (IAQ) has gone from a “nice-to-have” feature to a mission-critical component of...
Rising electricity prices have been in the news a lot recently. But what does that actually mean for your organization’s electricity costs, and is there anything that you can do about it? Beginning in the 1990s, many states deregulated their electricity markets....
In the world of real estate and facilities management, few decisions carry more long-term weight than what to do with aging HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and building automation systems. Do you retrofit and squeeze out a few more years? Or do you bite the bullet and...