Check out the December 2019 edition of Engineered Systems: Discussion of the "next generation" of building controls, the health impact of indoor particulate matter, evidence-based decision-making in the built environment and much more!
In our day-to-day work as design engineers, this term is typically used in design discussions with an owner to imply some level of building data collection and analysis.
The control systems we use in commercial buildings today have evolved over the last 30 years to provide systems that are cost effective, and provide good performance.
When I started out at an HVAC consulting engineering firm back in the 1960s, our services were primarily focused on hospital design engineering. Back then, steam system engineering was standard for those building applications.
This month’s B2B focuses on the conversion of an existing 1 million-square-foot commercial office building’s record computer-aided drawings (CAD) to building information modeling (BIM) drawings.