Analyze, Monitor, & Optimize

Using technology to continually monitor, track, and measure a buildings operation.

Monitoring-based commissioning involves innovative techniques using technology with analytical & diagnostic algorithms to constantly monitor building equipment & system functionality and performance, as well as identify actual energy savings and performance enhancements in real time. This allows system operators to make minor changes to regularly optimize efficiency and proactively identify issues.

What McCownGordon’s monitoring-based commissioning includes:

Utility Analysis
Benchmarking
Fault Detection & Diagnostics
Data Analytics
Resource for Building Operators & Maintenance Staff
Learn the Building’s Personality
System Schedule & Setpoint Optimization
Energy Conservation / Efficiency Measures
Facility Improvement Measures

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Building efficiency declines over time, increasing your operating costs and negatively impacting equipment life. Adding monitoring-based commissioning as a risk management tool protects your net operating income.

Key Benefits

Minimize Unplanned Downtime
Improved Occupant Comfort
Reduced Utility Consumption
Facility Operator Training
Proactive Preventative Maintenance
Optimized Building Systems
Increased Equipment Life Expectancy
Increased Asset Value
Improved Indoor Air Quality
Improved Building Systems Documentation

McCownGordon provides a thorough commissioning process that prepares facilities for long-term success.

Proper Building Optimization

Taking the time to understand a building’s personality enables us to fine-tune the automation system’s schedule and operational setpoints, which reduces utility consumption, seasonally validates equipment functionality and performance, and minimizes excessive equipment wear by reducing operational run times.

Warranty Support

By providing monitoring-based commissioning or active management to optimize performance, we are involved during the warranty period. We provide additional support to the operations and maintenance staff to document and correct as many issues as possible while under warranty to help save the owner from spending out of pocket.

Technical Advocate

After a building is turned over, the operations and maintenance staff are expected to take over system maintenance. Often, unexpected issues arise that the staff may not be trained to handle. We remain a resource to equip staff with the information needed for optimal system performance.

Tools & Proactive Maintenance

Through monitoring-based commissioning, we not only verify functional performance and optimize the buildings’ systems, but we also provide and calibrate Fault Detection Diagnostic (FDD) rules as a proactive measure.

Seasonal Testing

When functional testing was done in the middle of a cooling or heating season, we verify peak performance in the opposite season to ensure systems are prepared for potential seasonal extremes. We put the system through its full heating and cooling operations and test the efficiency in order to identify any areas of improvement when closer to natural conditions.