This month’s B2B will focus an existing two-story commercial office building receiving an energy grant to retrofit the existing building’s air-cooled 160-ton chillers as part of an overall building infrastructure renovation. The office building has its own in-house O&M staff consisting of one technician and an assistant. These two individuals, along with the owner representative, will meet with the design engineer and the construction manager (CM) to discuss specific building standards and how they apply to this project.
The design engineer and the CM’s in-house mechanical and electrical coordinator will also outline the specific collection of equipment documents in a manner that will allow for seamless compilation of preventive maintenance (PM) workorders, which will then populate the existing CMMS system so that the required workorders are ready for day one of owner occupancy of the retrofitted chilled water equipment.