O’Neill is a mechanical engineer with Michaels Energy with a degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He has served as a project manager and project engineer for projects including retrocommissioning, commissioning, energy audits, and energy modeling. Email him at elo@michaelsenergy.com.
Take a large hospital, subtract unexamined rules of thumb, add meaningful incremental improvements like VFD’s and a controls upgrade, and what do you get? Smarter engineering via improved performance for both the pumps and the chillers. But it all starts with one little question.