As I said in my last post, I love my job: it is solving complex problems that help buildings run more efficiently and leaves Owners, Facilities Managers, and Occupants with fewer headaches related to their mechanical systems. Retro-commissioning (RCx) is a system-wide approach that lets us see how all the building components come together to work best – and if they are NOT working, RCx figures out why, and how to fix it. But what exactly does that process look like? Retro-com

What I Do. I love old buildings. There is a romance to older buildings. Walking through old tunnels, halls, and crawl spaces I get to travel back in time. I see things that make me think “Wow, how did they do that?” and sometimes “Wow, why did they do that?!” I believe that is one reason I enjoy Retro-Commissioning so much. I get to go through old buildings and some not-so-old buildings (they’re just as fun!) to help solve problems, identify opportunities to improve how the f

Just a quick vlog post on an example of why you want your Commissioning Agent to be on-site during functional testing. There are things that can happen or occur to equipment that unless you are in the thick of it, on-site, you would never know they had happened. I have witnessed some interesting things during my years of commissioning ranging from air handling unit fans sound like they were going to take off due to a particular harmonic frequency to humidifiers flowing water