Effective and energy efficient duct systems start with good design. It is critical to keep occupant comfort and health in mind from the outset to ensure proper indoor air quality in the long term, especially in office buildings, K-12 schools, and…
Auditing Building Comfort Series: Safety & Energy Use in Lab Spaces
Lab spaces in K-12 schools and especially on university campuses are notorious for consuming a large proportion of the overall energy expenditure in their building portfolios. This is largely because of the necessary safety measures that are taken to maintain a…
How to Invest In Occupant Comfort (& Get ROI)
6 variables drive an occupant’s thermal comfort: air temperature, surface temperature, humidity, clothing level, activity level, and air velocity, but these factors don’t tell the full story behind the maintenance involved in optimizing temperature in office buildings, commercial buildings, K-12 schools,…
What Does it Take to Become Analytic-Driven – Part 2?
The main question we have been pondering since our October blog has been – how can my sustainability and facility management teams become analytic-driven? While we’ve focused on technology as a key ingredient in this process, this time we consider two…
How Analytics Help Facility Teams Transition to Preventative Maintenance
On the whole, facility teams struggle with a lack of resources. Dwindling workforce and budget cuts in parallel with steadily increasing responsibility contribute to a constant feeling of playing catch-up. Making the transition to preventative maintenance can seem, frankly, unattainable –…
How Facility Teams Can Avoid Information Overload (& Get Stuff Done)
Today, we have no lack of data for our buildings. The issue that we need to tackle as our world becomes more and more saturated with data is avoiding information overload and instead curating important data that is actionable in the…
CopperTree Analytics Releases Kaizen Energy, a Powerful New Building and Portfolio Energy Information System
Surrey, B.C., Canada – Jan. 8th, 2019 – CopperTree Analytics Inc., a worldwide leader in building data and energy analytics software, today announced the release of their latest product, Kaizen Energy. Kaizen Energy is an Energy Information System (EIS) platform with…
Where is Facilities Management Headed in 2019?
by Andrew Marsh, Building Automation Expert With 2019 officially here, I thought I’d reflect on the changes I see coming in the industry for the New Year and beyond. The facility management space has been slow to change, but we are seeing…
Flipping the Script on How We Talk About Maintenance
This blog post was originally published in October 2017 as a guest post on The Maintainers blog. The Maintainers is a global, interdisciplinary research network that explores the importance of maintenance and the ways in which it supports and sometimes runs…
Auditing Building Comfort Series: Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
In commercial buildings, offices, schools and on university campuses, Commissioning Agents and Facility Managers’ ultimate goal should be to create an environment where their occupants are at their most comfortable, and therefore most productive state, all while keeping energy costs to…