Energy in Action! — energy

Explore the Energy Savings, Operational Improvements, and Uptime Benefits Continuous Building Systems Commissioning refers to the ongoing process of monitoring, evaluating, and optimizing building systems to ensure energy efficiency and operational performance. Unlike traditional commissioning, which focuses on ensuring equipment works as designed at post-installation, continuous building systems commissioning is a proactive, ongoing data driven approach aimed at improving performance over the entire lifespan of a building. The essence of continuous building systems commissioning lies in its frequentative process, where anomalies or inefficiencies are identified, investigated, and resolved continuously - thereby maintaining and enhancing the building's energy efficiency profile and...

Commercial & Institutional HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) systems play a crucial role in maintaining comfortable and healthy indoor environments while managing energy costs. Optimizing these systems is essential to strike the right balance between providing acceptable occupancy comfort or process function and minimizing energy requirements. In this article, we will explore the key aspects of optimizing HVAC systems to achieve these goals. Commercial HVAC systems aim to maintain indoor comfort levels, ensuring that temperature and humidity are within acceptable ranges. Simultaneously, these systems must provide adequate ventilation and indoor air quality (IAQ) to support occupant health. All of...

Lighting plays a crucial role in our daily lives, affecting not only our comfort and productivity but also the bottom line for businesses and building owners as they grapple with higher expenses including energy costs.  In recent years, advancements in lighting controls and the adoption of LED lighting have revolutionized the way we illuminate our spaces, enhance workspaces and ergonomics and bolster the value of a building or facility. Let’s explore how these innovations are revolutionizing the way we live, work, and play. Advancements in Lighting Controls Smart Lighting Systems:  Modern lighting controls have evolved into intelligent systems that can...

Measurement & Verification Planning is conducted in the Energy Efficiency Planning, Install, as well as Maintain Phases of and energy savings project lifecycle.  Attendees to the course Energy Savings Measurement & Verification (M&V) and IPMVP (International Measurement Verification Protocol), will explore various energy management and building operation techniques which can be used by building owners, operators, energy managers, energy engineers, M&V data analysts, facility managers and energy efficiency project investors to bolster energy efficiency implementation and for the following value-added purposes: Increasing Energy Savings and Energy Efficiency Implementation:Accurate determination of energy savings gives building owners (end users), and facility managers...