You’re Used to This If you’re a SCADA integrator, building automation systems contractor, or other technology system contractor working within construction events, it goes without saying that your projects usually come with a dose of stress and anxiety. A common … Read More
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Status Meetings are Eating Your Profits
Those of us who have worked in the construction industry for any length of time know that project status meetings are something of a sacred ritual. They’re recurring, persistent, often contentious, and grossly unproductive. This isn’t a direct shot at … Read More
Commissioning Software: How to Select the Right Product
Commissioning Software How to Select the Right Product As a business owner, you are constantly thinking about and carrying out plans to help your business run more efficiently and predictably, and improve employee morale. You know that this translates to … Read More
BACnet: A Technical Summary
Download a PDF of this Article BACnet This is a high level summary of the BACnet specification as outlined in ASHRAE Standard 135-2004. It is content that I wrote in a graduate course on networking technologies several years ago. Introduction This … Read More
10 Best Practices for New Building Commissioning
Best Practices for New Building Commissioning Building commissioning is the vehicle that building owners and contracting teams are using to achieve better outcomes. These outcomes include sorting out interoperability issues between the many complex building systems that are installed in … Read More
Managing Profitability with Good Resource Utilization
The vast majority of building systems and commissioning work is performed as projects within matrix organizations. Within these matrix structures are limited pools of resources who project leaders and department managers are constantly negotiating and competing for in order to … Read More
Managing BAS Point to Point Checkout and Commissioning
On your BAS projects, once you have a project plan in place, engineering and design work finished, and begin executing your work, you need to make sure that it runs as smoothly and is as organized as possible. Facilitating this … Read More
Project Management on Building Automation System Projects
Project management on building automation system projects is sometimes viewed as simply making sure tasks are checked off a list as a project moves along. But it should be more than that. It should be a strategy for how you … Read More
What is 3rd party commissioning? It depends
How many construction projects have you been involved with where you know that 3rd party commissioning is within the scope of the project, but you don’t really understand the extent of what it actually entails? What is 3rd party commissioning? … Read More
TOP TEN Reasons for Unsuccessful SCADA System Implementations
Glenn Corvigno takes a thorough and humorous tour through the most common challenges of SCADA system projects in this great article. A common theme is the importance of a detailed commissioning plan, communication and collaboration between all project members, attention to detail, and tracking the … Read More
Technology as an Enabler
In a Construction Executive article, Adrian Scholes writes about the conflict between increasingly complex construction projects and the accompanying tighter budgets and aggressive schedules, and how technology can play a key role in the solution. “When all team members can access and … Read More