From my perspective of working in the intersection of two very different professions, medicine and design of the built environment, I’m frequently surprised by the resistance of each group to embrace concepts from the “other side.

I was at a conference at the end of April, and we were discussing new ways to deliver customer outcomes utilizing technology. The topic then shifted to how to utilize technologies that are primarily operational in nature in a capital project.

This is a story about two new construction commissioning projects with similar challenges and as-yet unwritten endings. 

When Major League Soccer club the Real Salt Lake Monarchs embarked on building the largest pre-engineered, free-span facility in North America, a critical concern was efficiently heating the space during the cold Utah winter months.  

You’re in sales, and you’re looking at your mid-year sales performance and disappointment is setting in. The sales may be in HVAC equipment or it may be consulting services.

In my youth, the year 2020 was a comical setting utilized only in science fiction movies. Today, it’s six months from a reality.

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B May test for an existing datacom room located within a 50,000-square-foot medical records office building.

Once again, research has revealed an entire new dimension of the role of indoor air quality in determining human health.

In my previous article on two-system integration, I discussed the four steps for effective integration. Just to recap, those steps are:

Last month’s column introduced the concept of giving “too much control” to the building operators through the BAS graphic.