Feinzig was reporting at the National Conference on Building Commissioning (NCBC) meeting on "Controls Commissioning: When Good Isn't Good Enough," a paper he authored with Arthur Nichols, a senior mechanical commissioning engineer, and Dan Sullivan, an Automated Logic Controls independent dealer.
Determining how smart your BMS is, and how smart it needs to be, can challenge many an engineer or commissioning provider, Feinzig said.