Continuous Commissioning Watches for Waste in Big Buildings
Series: Energy Minute
From: Denis Du Bois
Length: 00:01:21
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Piece Description
Continuous commissioning goes by many names, like monitoring-based, or data-based commissioning, or just ongoing energy monitoring. By any name, it's a real energy saver in commercial buildings.
Also see our pieces on Energy Monitoring and Building Information Modeling.
This piece is embedded within the half-hour Building Priorities Briefing titled "Keeping a Watchful Eye on Energy Use" available on PRX and the Public Radio Satellite System.
Transcript
Continuous commissioning is a way of making sure building systems are running at peak efficiency. The primary goal is to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, but it also provides data that's useful in managing the business.
In the building is a system that gathers hundreds of data points hourly, or even more frequently, and transmits them to a central server. Data analysis software performs fault detection and diagnostics, sometimes alerting facility managers to hidden problems that waste energy and compromise occupant comfort.
For example, air handling units can get stuck in a mode where they're heating and cooling simultaneously. Correcting that would immediately reduce energy waste, sometimes dramatically. Longer term, it reduces wear and maintenance on expensive mechanical equipment.
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