Virtually Proven Technology Based Solutions for Remote Energy Management
good afternoon everyone thank you for joining today's webinar we're excited to have you all on the line today it looks like we have nearly 100 people on the line so that's a great turnout and hopefully more will join us as we go along now before we want to get into today's presentation I just wanted to highlight that our three speakers today are partner of the year a winners and this is an annual award that energy star has so if you're wondering how you might be able to speak on one of these partner of the year webinars you do need to be a winner of one of these Awards and they are awarded for two companies that have excellence in energy management and companies that leverage energy star tools and also have excellent internal and external Communications are active in our partner community and have strong energy performance and the applications for this year are now open and they're due on December 7th and you can find that information at energystar.gov awards so we look forward to seeing some new applicants this year and for anyone who's interested in has some interesting best practices that you like to share you can note that in your application if you're interested in presenting on a future webinar we'd love to hear from more of you so I'm just going to provide a quick overview oh I'm sorry next slide I just want to make sure I'm not the only one seeing the slides here so um we should be on the slide that's called today's webinar thanks Rosemary for helping with that there we go so today's webinar has been almost a year in the making we're really excited about this topic about virtual Energy Management about six months into the pandemic by the time we got into Labs while we had heard from several LPS that they were successfully managing energy use remotely by not having to go to their clients buildings either because they couldn't because they could not physically travel there or because the buildings um you know were concerned about external people entering and were trying to implement safe procedures so a lot of companies had to adopt and it was something that not everyone was prepared for but a lot of people adapted quickly and that's something that our speakers will talk about today and one thing that we found is that a lot of these practices that they implemented will be very helpful even after the pandemic waned so the Technologies they used we've selected speakers that can speak to more basic Technologies such as just video calls on phones to a Georgia Pacific will talk about using very high-end technology of video goggles so we hope that whatever your budget might be for energy management that you'll pick up on some experiences and case studies today that will be applicable to your to your building and these technologies that were used um not only were they helpful with doing remote energy assessments they also have allowed for staff to be trained with experts not being able to to come on site and also they've allowed for more team members to be able to see issues in real time and and to participate in problem solving where they might not always have been invited in the past to chime in and finally the speakers will be talking about a few different property types offices and multi-family and Industrial facilities so if you're attending today and and you mostly work with schools or another property type for example rest assured that our speakers can still answer your questions and and give you some advice that will be applicable to your to your property Tech so hopefully you can apply what you've learned here today and I'll turn it back to Sam to introduce introduce our speakers and get started great thanks so next slide we have three presenters that will be speaking to us today Jeff is part of a technical services engineering team at sustainable Investment Group his responsibilities include managing the energy star service and product provider department and Consulting on the engineering aspects of building seeking lead certification these include indoor air quality calculations and measurements energy star labels and retro commissioning Services Jeff has experience working on high-rise Office Buildings individual tenant spaces and schools then we'll hear from Matt Lindquist he is a mechanical and computer engineer with more than 16 years of experience in Building Systems Operations commissioning and recommissioning and has been working with the re Tech advisors team for many years at retech Matt designs and performs retec Engineering Services including building assessments recommissioning commissioning training and building automation systems placements as well as managing retax engineering team and then finally we'll hear from Jeff Kaminski who has worked in the corporate Engineering Group at Georgia Pacific and its Legacy companies for over 40 years over that time he's primarily held leadership roles applying design tools like 3D CAD laser scanning and virtual reality for use on large projects however in recent years now as a technology leader he is extending that impact by helping the entire engineering department transform to more modern and agile business systems that produce Superior results so we welcome all three of them and with that I will turn it over to Jeff how's it going everyone I do apologize for my voice uh fortunately had a bit of a cold flu symptoms come in so I do apologize if I sound very raspy um uh thank you for the introduction uh we can go to the next slide again my name is Jeff Stewart I am a recently promoted uh direct associate director of energy for existing buildings and managing managing our energy star Department um as a member of sustainable Investment Group we go to that next slide um just going to do a brief overview of what sustainable Investment Group offers as we are a national Green Building consulting firm uh doing lead Consulting well Consulting fit well Consulting uh you know any kind of career building Consulting you can think of we we do that and along with our Engineering Services of energy modeling commissioning retro commissioning energy star certification and benchmarking energy audits indoor air quality testing and local law compliance we have offices located across the country and we do projects both domestic and international so we can go to the next slide so I wanted to kind of break down what we've been how we do our energy star uh walkthrough process um as everyone knows there there does need to be a required walkthrough to verify uh minimum indoor air quality standards are being met for any application that's submitted our process involved uh conducting a walkthrough of the eligible property on a sampling of floors and space types we try to do multiple floors multiple different space types to see uh to get a good feel of how the build how whatever building we're walking is operating and we would take our sampling and or air quality measurements uh not limited to the temperature humidity and light levels and fresh air volume serving those areas we do take additional measurements as well especially in if we find a problem or a measurement value that's outside of the normal range then we want to do further investigation while we're on site and talk to the property team and uh building engineering team to see what is causing the unusual numbers whether that's normal operation uh if the tenant wants 80 degrees in their space you know that is their their choice and we want to make sure that if we measure 80 degrees that's what's supposed to be going on um but if we do find those measurements that are outside the ranges and further correction is required uh we will follow up with the building team to ensure those issues are corrected before we would submit any application excuse me to go to that next slide just as an example of a few buildings we've done as our pre-pandemic process this is the Region's Plaza Building located in Atlanta Georgia is a high-rise Class A office building and working with uh stream Realty uh doing a walk through of multiple floors multiple space types to ensure that proper indoor air quality was being met and we did find a couple of rooms where the temperature was slightly above the uh dead band that we were looking for and with a little further investigation the terminal units serving those specific rooms just needed to be adjusted to make sure that the proper airflow is coming through once we confirmed with the building team that those were done that we were able to submit the application and they received their energy star label we can move to the next slide this is a property uncommon Fort Collins located in Fort Collins Colorado it is a multi-family building owned by CA Ventures uh it's mostly involved with student housing and for this for this one we went on site and took a met took a sampling of measurements in multiple residential units uh where feasible uh and then also with the leasing office in the amenity areas including the common break rooms some game rooms Lounge areas and some study rooms that the property offered so still doing our sampling approach to make sure that we're getting uh good good uh coverage for different space types and the property to make sure uh indoor air quality was being met and at this property all our measurements were within normal ranges so uh this this probably did earned their energy star label for 2020. there we go the next slide again so once the pandemic hit so I'm sure everyone is aware that's where we had to start uh dealing with various challenges that were going on so our process is we would always try to send someone on site and uh with a pandemic going on there were a lot of States uh and countries that were restricting travel in and out so that added a a different Nuance to where we could not go ourselves then for properties where we could get on site there would be much lower occupants uh either no one was in the building or just a skeleton crew of building management and Engineering personnel which as I'm sure you've seen in the the energy star guidelines and uh updated guidance for covid that there does need to be some occupants on site in order for us to do proper indoor air quality measurements so we lower on-site occupants were an issue then those next two items we had there were several buildings where ownership and management made the decision to not allow any third parties or outside parties to come come on site during the pandemic as as a way to kind of minimize any potential covid spreading and then on top of that where we were where third parties were allowed many tenants were not allowing any Personnel any non uh can a person else go into their space which uh I know as I'm sure a lot of you are aware some buildings still have those policies in place um and then there are also the issues to where if you wanted to go on site or travel to another state or out of the country yet to provide a negative covet test within a very small time frame sometimes 48 hours or 72 hours and then finding locations that a could do or finding you know an urgent care center or a doctor's location that could provide a coveted test within that 42 to 48 to 72 hour time frame was very problematic as well just with the slow rollout of uh getting tests out to the to the various States so there are many challenges that that came through could go to the next slide um or what what Sig what we had to do is come up with a modified approach to to verifying that indoor air quality standards are still being met so when it was not feasible for Sig to go on site what we would do is ship our testing equipment directly to each property we would then set up a video conference call Via WebEx go to meeting Microsoft teams Zoom all the different video calls software that are out there and we would walk through with the property team each piece of equipment that was sent and how to properly use it so we would write down like this is how you would take the the temperature measurements we want to see uh what areas of the buildings we would normally want to see and then once we go through all that then we'd go through the uh the testing forms that that SOG put together and we would send we also went through a sampling form just to show like this these are kind of measurements we want to see these are this is the style of notation we want to see to make sure we're covering all the bases and make sure that the there should be any questions asked by the the property teams um we would also wear feasible setup video calls to where the chief engineer could share screens to where they could show the building automation system as a way for Sig to also put RIS on the building Automation and see what temperatures are going out from the air Handling Systems uh what the chilled water and or condenser Water Systems we're producing uh any exhaust rates things of that nature so that that was the preferred method is if we could ship the equipment and then also have share screens with the building automation system let me go to the next one so excuse me again this is 999 Peachtree uh another high-rise office building in Atlanta Georgia which is managed behind uh we brought the testing equipment directly to the engineering team uh because clients was not allowing in this case not allowing any third parties to come into the building unless you are a tenant of the building but we also did set up a video call where we went through the building automation system to verify that proper airflow proper temperatures were being met on top of the CO2 relative humidity light levels and such that the engineering staff took measurements for uh inciting the forms back to us I could say for this property in particular we did have a similar to Regis philosophy we did a few of the terminal units showing unusual temperature readings and I Sig s for the engineering staff to take the physical measurements in those rooms as well to verify is this an issue with the equipment with the HVAC equipment itself or is this calibration issue of the sensor and for all of these issues that we found it was just a calibration of sensors we talked to the team and they worked with their their controls vendor to get the sensors recalibrated and once that was completed they took measurements again and verified against the building automation system screen to ver to show that the measurements were back within normal ranges excuse me so we can go to the next slide this is 75 Street uh State Street in Boston Massachusetts this is one where we were able to get on site uh during the pandemic and what this is we did have to get a negative Cova test within the 72-hour time frame just to get into the state of Massachusetts and uh luckily we found some places that could deliver a 24-hour test result so uh we we made the decision to come outside for this property we walked multiple floors multiple space types we were limited to a very specific floor list uh because the tenants the Civil tennis didn't want anyone going into their space that was not part of their company so we had to uh accommodate those requests and as well as saying uh masks and wearing gloves the entire time we were walking the properties to make sure you know we were minimizing our risks of spreading anything to the building as well as minimizing the risks of us catching anything so I can go to the next slide uh this is 61.95 61.95 Lusk in San Diego California
I don't know how that typo got it there um but this is a property managed by a health Peak with administrative offices and we mailed our testing equipment directly to the site here they did not have a building automation system that they could share a screen screen with so during the walk through that the engineering team conducted I was on the phone with them discussing the measurements they were taking and uh making sure that they were going through the right protocols and we discussed how one of their rooftop units uh no fresh air was being brought in and while still on the call there I was able to diagnose that there was uh issue with it with one of the fan belts that was causing uh no airflow to go through so they got that fixed and then retook the measurements and the proper airflow was satisfied there oh definitely go to the next load so some of the challenges just even during this on the remote walkthrough process uh just with the nature of shipping we did have a few cases where packages with our testing equipment was either lost or did not arrive at the proper address and uh working with USPS UPS and FedEx to get those corrected where possible we also ran to the issue where we conducted our our video call ahead of time to go through the uh how to use each piece of equipment how to fill out the forms properly but then when it came to the actual testing Day a different person conducted that walk through then we originally coordinated with and there were times where the notations that they took were not adequate for what we were looking for so we had to contact the building teams to say to ask them to retake measurements in certain areas to make sure that the proper documentation was accounted for and then there are always issues where they took the measurements and then sent back the testing forms and the equipment and despite what we discussed on the call the forms they filled out showed measurements that were outside of acceptable ranges so we would we contacted the property teams uh to try and diagnose what was going on with those specific areas um against I know one era I know one property in particular they took temperatures and said it was 68 degrees in all their rooms and that was fine but when we asked them about what the normal temperature set points should be they said usually 72 to 74. and so we had we talked to them to say okay okay you said it 72 to 74 but we're getting 68 across the board for what you wrote down that's not acceptable we need to figure out why it's 68 degrees in each of these rooms so we worked with that property property team to rectify those issues they retook the measurements and things were good to go from there to get to the next slide um so we went through the challenges but we did have some successes so similarly to where they took measurements and found issues or measurements outside of normal ranges they were that a lot of these properties were able to diagnose some of their indoor air quality issues that was that were found during the test testing process that they were not even aware of that uh their tenants had not submitted work orders or things of that nature so they said like well one of our tenants they had a lot of likes out but they told us they the tenants said they didn't want to bother the property team with work orders of the uh the lights that need to be replaced but that was one one uh big thing they found was being able to diagnose those indoor air quality issues and then during these fault discussions uh that we had with the properties a lot of the properties wanted to discuss Energy Efficiency Energy Efficiency measures that they they saw that could be implemented and we discussed with them about the feasibility of how to implement some of those findings one of the biggest things was having a building automation system that they could remotely log into especially when the property teams could not get on site whether for a pandemic or for northern states if there's 24 inches of snow and you physically can't get to the buildings uh having that building automation system to where you could remotely log in on your phone or on your home computer that was a big thing that they saw as a a benefit to implementing at their properties so overall for this process uh Sig we as our protocol we want to get on site and conduct the walkthroughs if at all feasible as part of our services it kind of helps to for to put two sets of eyes on you know the same object where you can get two different perspectives of something but if there are instances where it is not possible to get on site we will still be offering this remote verification method as a way to help properties earn the energy star label and there's the next next slide just and again I apologize for my raspy voice but uh thank you very much for your time um I'm happy to answer any questions I think the plan is we'll have a q a session at the end of this presentation um but uh happy to answer any additional questions that might come up from uh this remote process so thank you very much and I'll hand it off to uh Matt thank you Jeff I'm Matt Lindquist and I work for Re-Tech advisors I'm principal engineer for res Tech advisors go to the next slide please uh retec is a consulting company in the real estate space and we we live in an intersection of sustainability technology and buildings with Decades of experience serving primarily the commercial building sector and mostly what we do is design and Implement Innovative practical sustainable strategies to help our clients unlock value and fulfill their objectives and so next slide please and I am the principal engineer for retec I'm a mechanical and computer engineer I live in Minnesota and I help our clients with their ESG programs uh both whatever chain capex improvements and existing Building Systems so next slide please so what we we encountered similar problems to what Jeff had and I'm sure what other people had is primarily a lot of our work is on-site work we send Engineers or Consultants to buildings all around the world and work with our clients uh to implement uh programs uh come March of 2020 just like everybody else there was a major uh hold up in um in doing those visits and so we still had to meet our clients needs and so we designed a program which we call engineer in a box the idea being that we can send this kit around the world and have sent this kid around the world to help get people virtually to those sites and and look at things I think we all acknowledge that getting on site is better than not being on site but this sort of helps us bridge the gap at the time when travel was very challenging we also found through this that there are some use cases that work really well in some use cases that we will probably not use as much if travel is available we also found that some of these things are things that we're going to incorporate into our normal operation moving forward um so the kit itself uh is this you know at the base level of the cell phone an IR camera and some headphones by the idea being that we're gonna essentially FaceTime with our clients at the space uh that they're in um it's really hard to Loop buildings uh around so obviously we have to get there to be with them um we work with a designated property a team member from the property and and walk through and do the different things that we can do a lot of people ask us is this a service and it's not at the toolkit we we use this to help do our other services one of the major features and and one of the things that we decided when we put our program together is that we really want to be able to share files and video and photos immediately and so by sending our own technology there it sort of helped cut through a lot of the technological issues essentially the cell phone already has service it's set to go it's got all the apps that we need on it it's been tested before it goes out there and it allows us to just you know run and done as soon as it gets there we'll have a short a q a session with somebody using the technology basically here connect to this meeting and go primarily we use teams as our platform but depending on each client's needs sometimes there would be other other platforms such as um uh WebEx or Zoom next slide please um obviously uh why did we do this alternative for when travels restricted or cost prohibitive and that's probably one of the things moving forward you know we've got a lot of clients some of them have small properties those properties still need assistance they may not have a large energy spend so it might not make sense to fly someone halfway across the country or around the world to go do it but it allows us to still send uh essentially a virtual engineer out there and and address their their needs particularly for smaller smaller sites and and one of the things that we've often done in the past is have people send us a picture hey send us a picture of that and we'll talk about it on the phone and you know I think we all have acknowledge that pictures are great and it's nice to be able to see a piece of equipment pictures lovely uh video is better so you know can we capture some video of it sending it over sending large video files it really becomes a problem live video becomes transformative for us being able to direct the video and and show us can you show us how that's piped this way can you show us the sensor location can you show it in relationship to where the chiller is and the pumps are in the inlets and the outlets and those kinds of things from a commissioning perspective is very valuable being able to see it both in the infrared light spectrum and uh and the visible light spectrum so we can see data cells are opening or closing properly so steam traps are operating and such so on and so forth so that was that that's some of the you know kind of things that were great and applies to both small sites and large sites um we worked it's done within conjunction of our other Engineering Services to do property support and commissioning support um you know let's talk more about that as we move into some of the other sections but commissioning is is often a you know kind of a Sprint event where you go in and as a commissioning agent you go to the site whether it's local or remote and you spend a day or a half day or a couple of days or a week or whatnot on site doing stuff and then you you walk away with a list that needs to get corrected this has allowed us to sort of change that Paradigm a little bit and better serve our projects um it's also allowed us to push more quick uh quickly with remote troubleshooting so at one of the side teams some of some of our clients they've asked that we basically station these devices at their facilities particularly they're more demanding facilities and when they have problems they can call us up right away and they can say hey what about this thing we don't understand what's going on here we think it's you know maybe it's a damper that's leaking or it's a valve or the sequence isn't working properly combined with remote access to the building automation system that really allows us to really understand and support these property teams in their push to reduce their energy consumption um provides a direct line of communication they they know they can just basically pick up the phone and call us whenever they need to and we'll answer and talk them through whatever issues they're having and take it right to wherever the problem is which is one thing that's really helpful um next slide please so the primary ways we use this are virtual walkthroughs walking through a property figuring out what's going on there connection to site staff I think uh face to face is always great when you're trying to work with site staff but a video call allows us to actually connect with them what we found is that you know we have always had standing phone calls with site teams but you know they rarely want to join on video if you actually send them uh a property or a send them a a device and and tell them I'm going to FaceTime one-on-one with you it's a lot less intimidating and we get a chance to actually connect with people um on a face-to-face basis which is very helpful bx9 is a program reverse I'll talk a little bit more about what that is and support of that implementation so that the X9 has been a big thing for us and then obviously building commissioning support we'll talk again about that as we go along so can we get the next slide please um so virtual walkthrough right so you know as Engineers we support our clients uh from the diligence diligence phase all the way through Opera ongoing operations and one of the key factors here is can we get into the site and look to see what's going on at any given time to understand kind of what kind of a building is a lot of the times we're working with ownership groups and and uh they get a list of properties and they say Hey you know we have this list of properties tell me about those properties and so we're we're tasked with helping the clients understand what their buildings are and how they work and how they can be improved or operated better so this is a way to get us on site and do that um basically we we call them up and we set up a time and we we walk them through the site and it's it's like a FaceTime meeting you might have with a friend on the street and they're they're telling them us all about their their site and and what's going on and it's a great way to connect with the site team and start to build that relationship that's going to be critical to improving the facility as we move along uh fast reaction times it's as fast as I can FedEx them in the box uh so you want to have a virtual site visit with me tomorrow well if I can overnight you the box um I will and then we can we can connect and that's something that we've done for quite a few of our clients where they're where we're kind of sending it out as needed and run through some things we can send it out to you know companies where they are supporting their portfolio and they might then ship it from site to site to site so Monday with a site of Texas they'll put it in a put it on a truck and then ship it to somewhere else and and it might be in New Orleans the the day after that and that's a thing that I couldn't normally do but it allows us to really meet and connect with our sites um someone that some of the things that we learned is that it's good if we have someone who actually knows something about the site there's a couple of instances where uh you know this someone will get an email and a box and the email will say hey connect with this guy from recheck and he'll he'll help you out and and we connect with them and they're like well I I don't know anything about the building I don't know anything about HVAC systems they just told me to hold the phone that is not as effective as having uh you know a site engineer or some sort of supervisor or something who knows something about the facility um and obviously we're limited this sounds really silly but uh what you can actually see uh you know sometimes we've been asked well can you look at you know things uh you know other things the facility and like no I actually have to be able to see it so uh some other nice to haves when we're doing this is site plans this is some sort of map of the facility so we can kind of walk through and follow along as they're walking through the facility and remote access to the building automation system and Equipment lists are also very helpful not necessarily have to have but definitely nice to have next slide please so when we're connecting with site staff you know one of the things that uh you know our our model and the things that retec has has had a lot of success with is connecting with site staff to get them excited and energized to do the recommendations that we recommend but also for them to think a little bit differently about the way that they have run the facilities in the past um that is something that we have spent a lot of time developing relationships with and this is uh this is something that we feel is critical in terms of getting this the recommendations to stick obviously we're a Consulting Group we come in we make recommendations we help implement but the site team will persist on and we need them to buy into and fully trust any solution that we recommend so that they can maintain that system that way going forward otherwise what we find is that the systems will sort of slip back into the mode of operation that they were in before so this is a this this connection with the site team is very important in the past it's always been because we went and visited with them but eib allows us to actually connect with them as you would with your relatives on FaceTime and say Hey you know how's it going with you what's going on in your building um you know those kinds of of connections and it's very important um it's also a way for the site team to because we do record these sessions uh to show us their the things that they're proud of and they're excited about you know when they say hey I made a change and it made a made a big difference for the tenants the clients the customers the residents whoever it is in the facility they can show us that and when then we can pass that along to their management team and say hey there's here's an example of something that this person's done really well let's harness this and share this as a as a learning point across your organization so that you can have other people make similarly good choices um it's also an opportunity to when we're connecting with these site teams for them to tell us about issues that they're having so that we can come up with Solutions and again share those because it's recorded across the organization and say here this is an example of something that wasn't working that we fixed and this is how it was it's more meaningful when it's when with when it seems like it's a solution that the organization identified on their own uh than it is for just a consult to come in and say hey you should you should fix that um it also means that any call can become a commissioning session essentially we can talk uh with people and meet with people sort of on their own terms so and then identify Solutions so you're gonna get the next slide so bx9 so this is a service offering that we do it's an optimization program we have a set of control sequences alarms and alerts that we like and we recommend to our our clients and we've been implementing for a long time that have been proven to save energy one of the things that we do there is we log in remotely to building automation systems and we sort of run through our programs it's it's our analytics package if if you will um one of the big challenges we found is that you know we give them a list as many others do here are some issues that we have found that you may want to correct here's recommended Solutions and then the site team is left to implement those changes and sometimes the site teams are very sophisticated and they're and they're very able to implement these and other times they look at our lists and they're like we don't really know how to implement this so by combining their bx9 with an EAB now we can help them implement the solutions we can work with either the site team or with contractors to say hey this is exactly what we found can you this is the problem once we show them exactly what the problem is then they can work on a solution and we can come back and use the ID to verify that it actually was working the way it was supposed to this is helpful both for the site but also for management to understand that Yeah we actually have fixed things and these things are better and and explain to them what the process process is it also provides training opportunities because they can they can go back and review the materials and say this is this is the issue and this is what happens um so eib enhances the bx9 process um so that's the situation with the next slide please one of the big ones in in bx9 support and commissioning support and walkthroughs are all things that we will continue using uh this this process for but commissioning is probably one of the biggest ones for us that's become transformation uh we were tasked with at the beginning of the pandemic and we were tasked with commissioning about a 350 000 square foot uh Convention Center in Las Vegas we don't have any Personnel in Las Vegas but it's a client that we have a very long relationship with and they were very excited to have US participate as part of the project team so that was probably the biggest impetus for us to develop this this program and what it allowed us to do is to actually complete that project without actually ever setting foot on site we have since uh that's what I'm saying I think we were there last month for the first time since before the pan state it allowed us to Pivot our program from this sort of the traditional we're going to come out a certain number of times to test and retest and and do some observations that the eib was actually given to the controls contractor and it was their head technician who was the one on the other end of our line and then our commissioning engineer sat in the office and he was the one who um was basically looking at what was going on from our end uh it allowed for functional functional performance testing in between and sometimes in you know now we're using it in between and sometimes in little site visits so we've got five or six commissioning jobs where we have this as part of the program um but at the time it was entirely uh in lieu of site visits um it also uh sort of uh allowed us to do just-in-time commissioning essentially uh lowering the impact on the project schedule what we were finding is and what I think a lot of people find when you do commissioning is that the you know maybe the mechanical contraction controls contract or maybe the factory startup guy the role on site together and they work for maybe a half day or whatever to get everything we're getting checked out and then they call it commissioning agent they say okay we're ready to go so then what we do is we send somebody out you know a few days a week maybe later to go and and verify the systems by then the factory startup guides on some other job the mechanical contractor is busy working on something else and so all the people response are not necessarily there anymore find some issues we send them back to send them back the action lists with the issues identified a week or two later they may roll back onto site they go and correct the issues and then and it really delays the startup this allowed us to basically say okay we're going to do this Factory startup it's very low impact for us if if for some reason they find a problem then they have to delay but if they get everything done and they're all happy with the way it works out we can basically log into the system check out what's going on visually observe everything from our office and then uh and then if there's anything that they need to resolve all the people um so we're all trying to get everything done so that's uh that's the the kind of the plan there let's go to the next slide um so one of the things we're talking about here is that uh reuse we use it in commissioning so these are some of the things that we observed um break it into smaller pieces Eau was remotely verified that the commands were executed basically we can look at a bis and look at it in the real world and um it allowed us to do effective what we think is a better job of commissioning uh and keep the projects moving on time um we have a little video of of eib in the field um and we are running a little short on time do we know if the video will be available afterwards we can what we can do is try to get it posted to the website with the slides if that works I think that'll be the best solution because I think it might not send via email but yeah yeah let's let's uh let's see if we can post it to the slides and people can watch that on their own and that way we can sort of make up a little in time um so eib deployment some of the things we found so if we want to go to the next slide and we'll pass by the video this time um eib deployment uh we looked for a property maintenance teams should be available vas contract Service contractor if they're available that helps a lot engaged in responsive team is probably critical and uh quickly it allows us to quickly Implement fixes um so and verify whether they're working so this is success stories uh if we want to go to the next slide uh commissioning uh sorry 315 000 square foot Expo Center so these are some of the highlights here but uh basically this was the only way we were going to get this done because of pandemic restrictions that happened at the time that that project was was moving forward um and it allowed for video documentation to show the owner and the project team that everything is working properly and make sure that everything was identified correctly you'll be able to look through these a little bit more later on so I'm gonna skip to the next one um we also used it for um for small commissioning work so in this instance there was one of our clients at two chillers that uh died and they needed to replace them these are on one of the islands in Hawaii and it became very hard to get to Hawaii during the pandemic but we still wanted to make sure that the installation was done properly because obviously once the installation is complete there's really no opportunity to change it without significant costs so this allowed us to connect with the site team and the construction team on a regular basis and identify issues that would otherwise have gone uncorrected things like piping issues poor sensor location access issues for maintenance those were all easily corrected by the contractor through this process and so we feel like this will not for a better installation with a pretty low effort on our part um next slide please um this is similar uh to Jeff's talking about energy star certification one of our clients has 2800 industrial and distribution warehouses they wanted to find out if we could do some energy star certifications so we did perform some virtual walkthroughs we spent additional sensors along with the traditional set that we'd normally send and allowed for us to do our measurements and walk through and gather the data we needed to provided us video documentation as well as our traditional checklist that was um and then one more slide um the uh the last thing is you know bx9 review these are the kind of things that we were looking for here um um you know leaking to water valves hot water valve steam valves failed temperature sensors non-functional dampers sort of the whole normal host of things that we'd look for and we and this allowed us to visually verify and not just on the building information system that these things were working properly uh and that things were working the way they're supposed to I'm running a little behind but obviously we'll answer some more questions towards the end and at this point I'm going to hand it over to Jeff all right we are pulling the video up going all right thank you to all our panelists so we just have a couple slides to run through just to let our audience know about some upcoming webinars this webinar was part of the learn from the best series there are two left one coming up on November 9th dive into water and waste savings strategies from boma's W-2 challenge Champions and December 9th working together to save energy Employee Engagement strategies and next slide and then also coming up in the next couple of months oh it looks like our slide is off the screen there but the uh November 17th there is part of the industrial webinar series one on paper and petroleum and December 9th won specifying uh around bakeries right and then finally slide here so we have about 10 minutes for Q a we do have some questions that came in through the chat that we will run through I encourage anyone who still has questions for any of the three presenters to type them into the chat send them to the host whatever we can't get to in these next 10 minutes we will follow up with you on later
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