The new SMART Recommissioning service optimizes pumps, controls strategies, and BAS integration, a press release from Armstrong Fluid Technology said. Working with current building loads, the program updates the asset’s configuration settings, enables cloud connectivity, and documents asset details.
Quality Install configures system settings for optimal performance, calculates proper refrigerant trim charge, verifies the charge, runs a system test, and generates separate commissioning reports.
Industry professionals are invited to submit abstracts for presentations (no formal paper required) to present at the 2018 Air Movement and Control Association Intl. Inc.
NEBB announced that the latest edition of its publication ANSI-NEBB Technical Retro-Commissioning of Existing Buildings Standard S120-2016 is an approved American National Standard, now available for sale in both print and electronic versions.
A new credential — the Energy Management Professional (EMP) certification from Energy Management Association (EMA) — is training individuals to balance the goals of energy conservation and building performance, which, according to Andrew Heitman of Building Energy Sciences LLC, Pensacola, Florida, keeps customers happy.
Two prominent grocery chains in the Upper Midwest are reducing their energy use and cutting energy cost by retro-commissioning their stores. The chains have done so with the help of SINGH360, a service provider that specializes in working with grocery chains.
All of the components may be operational, but are they adjusted and working properly as a complete system? A professional installation will include a thorough inspection of the system as a complete unit.
Ten online professional development seminars focused on commissioning, environmental quality, energy efficiency, HVAC applications, and standards and guidelines are being offered this fall by the ASHRAE Learning Institute (ALI).
Building optimization and commissioning services — quality assurance measures that can help meet operational and energy efficiency goals — are expanding with the growing emphasis on efficiency, states Navigant Research.