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Home » Authors » Amanda Parolise

Amanda Parolise

Parolise is project manager consultant with BuildingSmart Software LLC. Reach her at mckew@yahoo.com.

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Facility Files

Facility Files: Converting a Large Office Facility's CAD Records to BIM

Amanda Parolise
December 12, 2019

This month’s B2B focuses on the conversion of an existing 1 million-square-foot commercial office building’s record computer-aided drawings (CAD) to building information modeling (BIM) drawings. 


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Facility Files: Cooling Tower for a Pharmaceutical Process Cooling Water System

Amanda Parolise
November 13, 2019

This month’s B2B focuses on a new cooling tower to serve a pharmaceutical facility’s new process water system. This tower will be a closed-loop, evaporative condenser to operate 24/7/365.


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Facility Files: Air-Cooled Chiller Retrofit at a Mid-Sized Hospital

Winter Chiller Alternative Project Using Integrated Project Delivery
Amanda Parolise
October 18, 2019

This month’s Facility File focuses on retrofitting a hospital’s patient floor with the addition of one fan-powered HEPA filter unit per patient room on a 30-patient room floor. The Facility File will focus on the B2B September test to improve the room air-purification environment and to trap particles that are 0.3 microns or larger.


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Facility Files: Hospital Patient Room Filtration Retrofit

High-Performance Hospital Patient Room Filtration Retrofit Using Construction Management Project Delivery.
Amanda Parolise
September 13, 2019

This month’s Facility File focuses on retrofitting a hospital’s patient floor with the addition of one fan-powered HEPA filter unit per patient room on a 30-patient room floor. The Facility File will focus on the B2B September test to improve the room air-purification environment and to trap particles that are 0.3 microns or larger.


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Facility Files: Combined Heat and Power Co-Gen Design-Build Project

Amanda Parolise
August 12, 2019

This month’s Facility File will focus on the Back2Basics test on a hospital capital project to furnish and install a combined heat and power (CHP) co-generator of electricity and use of engine coolant heat rejection directed to the facility’s new pre-heat domestic hot water storage tank.


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Facility Files: Replacing a College Campus Administration's Rooftop System

Amanda Parolise
July 12, 2019

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B June test for the renovation of an office building located on a major corporation’s U.S. headquarters campus. The existing HVAC system to be replaced is an antiquated hot water heating system serving baseboard radiation, unit heaters, and a rooftop HVAC unit.


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Facility Files: Replacing an Antiquated Hot Water Heaing System with a DOAS and Chilled Beams

Amanda Parolise
June 14, 2019

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B June test for the renovation of an office building located on a major corporation’s U.S. headquarters campus. The existing HVAC system to be replaced is an antiquated hot water heating system serving baseboard radiation, unit heaters, and a rooftop HVAC unit.


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Facility Files: Datacom Expansion in a Medical Records Office Building Using VRF

Amanda Parolise
May 13, 2019

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B May test for an existing datacom room located within a 50,000-square-foot medical records office building.


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Facility Files: A 120 BHP Condensing Boiler in a K-8 School

Amanda Parolise
April 12, 2019

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B April test for a K-8 school temporary heating project in sync with a utility rebate to furnish and install a new 120 boiler horsepower (BHP) condensing boiler application.


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Facility Files: A Boiler Retrofit at a 40-building Campus

Amanda Parolise
March 13, 2019

This month’s Facility File focuses on the March Back2Basics retrofit of a campus-wide hot water boiler system covering 40 buildings with primary-, secondary-, and tertiary-pumping based on a performance lease agreement to retro-commission the system with a guaranteed operating savings. The university will hire an owner representative to work with a design-build-operate-maintain performance contractor (PC).


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