There is much to be learned from seeing, touching, and hearing the equipment and components operating inside a building.

The first step of process standardization is writing it all down; ESD can help.

Building operators will be challenged to run their HVAC systems in the most energy-efficient manner while supporting evolving space usage decisions.

Recognized internationally for a name and even a suffix that has entered the pop culture lexicon, the luxury complex of modernist buildings on the banks of the Potomac River known as the Watergate Complex is an icon like no other in Washington. 

This month’s Facility File focuses on the March Back2Basics retrofit of a campus-wide hot water boiler system covering 40 buildings with primary-, secondary-, and tertiary-pumping based on a performance lease agreement to retro-commission the system with a guaranteed operating savings. The university will hire an owner representative to work with a design-build-operate-maintain performance contractor (PC).

Recently, a data center retro-commissioning project uncovered issues that could have led to catastrophic failure.

This month’s B2B will focus on an 800,000-square-foot existing in-patient health care facility committed to recommissioning its boiler room operation and maintenance management to maintain a highly performing, safe boiler plant environment.

The National Environmental Balancing Bureau is offering a seminar on “Technical Retro-Commissioning Of Existing Building Systems.”