High-Performance Buildings & Automation

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For facilities requiring simultaneous heating and cooling, such as hospitals and universities, partial decarbonization can create a path forward.

Hindsight is 20-20 when troubleshooting and poor pump performance is one of the best places to start to recommend improvements that will have a reasonable return-on-investment and/or correct an operation problem. 

"For those of you mentoring others new to commissioning, I hope this gets you thinking about what your best advice would be," writes ES NEWS contributor Miles Ryan. "It is a fascinating job, but it can be overwhelming."

Unless there are significant changes to the power infrastructure, we can expect the same results as we recently experienced with the hurricanes in the Southeast.

It’s the little things that we can accomplish as the world picks away at global business solutions.

Over time, AI-powered controls provide the necessary energy efficiency to help meet sustainability goals. 

Understanding how to select, specify, and install electric boilers for the specific situation will conserve substantial energy, space, and resources compared to fuel-fired options.

I don’t know who coined the phrase, “High-Performance Building” (HPB) but, whoever that individual was, he or she probably would be surprised how these three words are used to define several categories today.

Buildings account for nearly 33% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. 

As data centers deploy new computing infrastructure to meet the needs of AI, the industry is awakening to the realization that the current grid may not be equipped to support growing requirements.