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All Systems Ready: What Is Building Commissioning Services?

Building commissioning services are provided by Commissiong or Cx professionals and engineers. Building owners and general contract managers employ their expertise to ensure that all of a building’s systems are correctly designed, installed, tested, and verified to be performing accurately … Read More

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COBie file. Bluerithm technology

What is COBie?

There are many challenges that companies face when working with data and information. Getting data in a standardized format is a struggle many industries deal with. Companies spend countless hours cleaning data so that it can be used. There is … Read More

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Commissioning Reports, Test and Balance Reports

Stand out from the crowd There are many ways Bluerithm helps you fight back against commoditization. Giving you full-fledged text editing tools for your test forms, design reviews, meeting minutes, and anything else from your projects that all feed into … Read More

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Bluerithm Jan. 2022 Updates

——––> Announcement video Updated page layouts, improved UX, light-mode  We’re investing heavily in making Bluerithm look nicer, flow smoother, and to making it easier and nicer to use in general. We hired a UX specialist to help in these efforts. The … Read More

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Form Matrix/Summary

The form matrix in Bluerithm is used to combine data from similar forms across your project, in one place. The improves productivity quality of data collection and entry, and yet still maintains a 1-1 basis for your forms and equipment.

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End of Year Update 2021

What a year I hope that 2021 has been good to you and your team. Despite ongoing challenges, we’ve seen a faster-than-expected global rebound, including growth in commercial and industrial construction. This trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable … Read More

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Free Commissioning and Test and Balance Software

Did you know that you can use BlueRithm for free? We believe certain things just shouldn’t exist when it comes to commissioning, readiness, and TAB software.  We have fixed some of this already, but we’re taking things a massive step … Read More

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2021 Incentive

The end of the calendar year is right around the corner. If you’ve been on the fence about switching to the latest technology and running a more efficient and quality-conscious business, we are giving you a little nudge and making … Read More

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Full Text Editor Coming to BlueRithm

Simple is elegant. But sometimes a little extra formatting goes a long way to making complex information easier to understand.  You’ll soon have the ability to add formatting to your forms, checklists, design reviews, issues & punch list items, notes, … Read More

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Expanded Audit History Features

Facilitating accountability, transparency, and making detailed record keeping easy is a big part of what BlueRithm does for you. We’ve made it easier to keep track of each and every detail of your checklists, test procedures, design reviews, and all … Read More

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Friends Wherever We Go!

We’re fortunate and thankful for the always-expanding BlueRithm customer base around the globe. Fortunately, it’s quite easy to do no-interruption updates to cloud resources these days, because there aren’t really “off-hours” with our customer base anymore. Helping our customers streamline … Read More

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Kattera’s Failure and the Future of Property Design and Construction

Katerra might have crashed and burned, but “pioneers are oftentimes the losers. Then the other guys come behind it and figure out what they did wrong.” Disrupting existing supply chain models and novel pre-fabrication approaches are just examples of innovation … Read More

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BlueRithm + Procore Integration

Automate More with the BlueRithm + Procore Integration Procore Partner Today we’re announcing and previewing the BlueRithm integration with Procore. The first stage of this integration is a robust data-level integration that automatically synchronizes Procore observations with BlueRithm Issues.  We’re … Read More

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Design-Build Adoption Increases

Based on the results from FMI’s latest report, traditional design-bid-build projects continue to decrease as a delivery model in favor of design-build. This expands on research from 2018 and shows a trend leading to nearly half of all projects using … Read More

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Lock Any Column, Row, Individual Cell in Your Custom Forms and Checklists

Full Control We’re excited to announce an update to BlueRithm forms and checklists. You now have greater control over who can edit what in custom forms and checklists.  Use built in tools in the web portal, or shortcodes in Excel uploads … Read More

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What’s New

Accelerating Into the Next Decade Big Changes What a whirlwind year it’s been – and we still have a quarter to go! As construction technology adoption accelerates, we’re pushing the limits by bringing in new partners and investors, hiring new … Read More

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BlueRithm at BCxA 2021 Toronto Conference

We hope to see you in Toronto, ON October 6-8, 2021 for the annual Building Commissioning Association conference! We’re excited to be back on the road for this great event. We’ll have an exhibitor booth, and be sure to check … Read More

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BlueRithm is Now Free

A new reality has emerged in the last few years. It’s no longer true that the industry you work in isn’t adopting and leveraging new technology – it’s catching up, and fast. Capital investment in technology aimed at construction and … Read More

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BlueRithm Closes Funding Round

We are happy to announce that we have closed a modest round of seed funding. The funding is from various private investors, including founders of large software and engineering firms, and others with expertise in various industries and stages of … Read More

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BlueRithm Windows App is Now Available!

You may have heard us mention this as an upcoming addition to the BlueRithm platform (a few times). We’re thrilled to announce that the Windows version of the BlueRithm app is now available! We’ve taken everything that works well with the … Read More

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Watch: BlueRithm at CxEnergy Virtual 2021 Conference

If you missed BlueRithm’s presentation at CxEnergy’s virtual 2021 conference, you can view it here (on demand)!

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Commissioning Automation and Control Systems

Commissioning involves a series of documentation and verification of all systems and components of equipment, process or buildings. This is performed to ensure that they are designed, installed, and tested based on intended operating conditions. It is best included in … Read More

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Mechanical Testing, Inc. Provides Transparency and Efficiency to Clients with BlueRithm

Mechanical Testing, Inc. uses BlueRithm to help construction management teams simplify, automate and build for the future.  MTI includes cloud-based reports to work efficiently and allows flexibility to property and facility managers assurance their building is running correctly in real … Read More

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Avoid Becoming a Commodity

In some ways building commissioning has become a victim of its own success. We’re seeing forces in the industry driving the service to commodity status. Using technology in certain ways can further contribute to this phenomenon. See how BlueRithm can … Read More

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BlueRithm at CxEnergy 2021

We’re proud to support CxEnergy again this year! Stop by to see our free presentation on commissioning and TAB software on Friday, April 23rd at 1pm ET. Details and registration here: https://www.cxenergy.com/

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Customizable site visit report templates with options to track as standalone activities, or to incorporate into the issues log.

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Customizable design review templates with options to track as standalone activities, or to incorporate into the issues log.

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Customizable meeting minute templates.

TAB templates for custom forms with formulas that you can create and edit. 

Functional and integrated systems tests / level 4 and 5 forms for commercial commissioning. 

Virtually unlimited formats to support your unique needs. 

Pre-functional / level 2 and 3 checklists for commercial commissioning, installation and startup tracking.

Bluerithm has LEED process checklists to ensure you’re on track with your LEED certification requirements, as well as checklist and test forms so you can meet Fundamental and Enhanced LEED certification requirements.

Bluerithm has extensive templates ready to use and customize for a variety of commercial commissioning needs. 

Bluerithm has comprehensive punch list and issue log features to support thorough recording, tracking, and control workflows. New items and responses can be easily added on mobile devices in the field, even when offline. 

Issues are customizable on a project by project basis with custom fields.