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Years ago, I was responsible for quality control (QC) of our facility manager’s performance of outsourced building management services, and I did part of my QC responsibilities by completing walking tours of the equipment rooms.

For many of us involved day to day with the design, installation, and operation of BAS, it often seems like there has been little in terms of new products and innovation.

A BAS spec is typically a section within Division 23 (e.g., 230923), while the sequences and points are usually provided elsewhere (i.e., on the drawings, in section 230993, or some combination thereof).

Last month, this column presented monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) as a subset of ongoing commissioning of buildings that have previously been commissioned or retro-commissioned.

Like many industries before it, the market for commercial building products, services, and solutions (BPSS) is undergoing a digital transformation.

The same mechanisms that keep humans warm do not serve the same purpose in the built environment.

Why is it important to define the physical architecture (or simply “architecture” in this column) in the design?

While monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) is a relatively new term in the mainstream commissioning dictionary, its practice has been part of some commissioning programs for more than 10 years.

The AHR Expo announced the winners of its 2019 Innovation Awards.