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When it comes to a progressive clean energy economy, there is a lot to learn from California. The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) presented several valuable lessons that can be gained from the Golden State.

Engineering departments in today’s health care environment are tasked with an ever-growing list of responsibilities, such as emergency readiness, PMs, reactive maintenance, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing infection control, maintaining life cycle budgets, managing utility spend, and the list goes on.

Editor’s Note: Every successful project starts with a framework. A vision statement. A blueprint.

Designing a hospital or outpatient medical facility can be challenging with the need to adhere to multiple codes and guidelines, equipment coordination, and the possibility of problems beyond occupant comfort.

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.