Miki Minic knew immediately how to solve the IAQ issue at a 227,000-square-foot Miami Class A office complex. The veteran building engineer was in his first week with the global real estate giant Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) when he told supervisors he could significantly slash HVACR energy use at the 12-story Harbour Centre at Aventura office complex.
Minic had already done so at a 413,000-square-foot office complex across town five years earlier. In fact, he used the results from the previous project to prove his daring claim: he could improve IAQ, restore cooling capacity, and save enough energy in the process to pay for the upgrade in less than a year.