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BuildingFit Banner Health Smart Building Innovation Awards

Banner Health Named Finalist for 2020 Verdantix International Smart Building Innovation Awards

October 6, 2020/in BAS, Building Analytics, Building Performance, Building Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Energy management, Energy Management System, Energy Savings, Facility Management, Facility Managers, High Performance Building, Intelligent Building, Press, Smart Building Solution, Smart building system, Smart building technology, Smart Buildings, Sustainability /by BuildingFit Marketing

We are excited to announce that Banner Health is a finalist for the Verdantix 2020 International Smart Building Innovation Awards.

Banner Health implemented an enterprise wide Monitoring Based Commissioning (MBCx) program utilizing the BuildingFit (www.buildingfit.com) Fault Detection and Diagnostics platform. To date, the program has saved:

– $11.3 million/year

– 80 million kWh/year of electricity

– 530,000 Dth/year of natural gas

– 6,000 tons of CO₂ emissions – equivalent to the annual CO₂ emissions from 7,600 homes or 14,000 cars

For more information about this award and finalists, please go to https://www.verdantix.com/newsroom/press-releases/verdantix-announces-the-finalists-for-the-2020-international-smartbuilding-innovation-awards

BuildingFit Featured in CABA Journal. Finding Our Way: Take the Established Success Path for Implementing Building Analytics

July 7, 2020/in BAS, Building Analytics, Building Performance, Building Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Energy Engineering, Energy management, Energy Management System, Energy Savings, Facility Management, Facility Managers, High Performance Building, Intelligent Building, Press, Smart Building Solution, Smart building system, Smart building technology, Smart Buildings, Sustainability, Uncategorized /by BuildingFit Marketing

By Rob Glance, BuildingFit

While most industries have adopted and are aligned with industry standards relating to IP networking and enterprise data management, building automation is stuck in catch-up mode. Owners understandably want to manage their sites with the latest technologies and information management systems. While many building automation systems (BAS) products are becoming IP-compliant, many existing buildings have older legacy and proprietary BAS systems. This creates big problems for those charged with managing buildings.

The result of this is that applying analytics on building performance, building owners are locked into a cycle of needing to upgrade outdated BAS while knowing that outright replacement and attaining the capital needed to justify ROI are often insurmountable. Many of these BAS are incapable of offering much more than simple trend data and weren’t designed to provide any real operational diagnostics beyond basic alarms.

Read the full article in CABA Journal here.

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Implementing Data Analytics Into Building Automation Systems

May 8, 2020/in BAS, Building Analytics, Building Performance, Building Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Energy Engineering, Energy management, Energy Management System, Energy Savings, Facility Management, Facility Managers, High Performance Building, Intelligent Building, Smart Building Solution, Smart building system, Smart building technology, Smart Buildings, Sustainability, Uncategorized /by BuildingFit Marketing

I can’t help feeling that it’s 1999 all over again. As a software development professional with experience across multiple industries, I hear a consistent lament from building owners who share the same set of problems. While most industries have already adopted and are aligned with industry standards relating to IP networking and enterprise data management, building automation has yet to catch up. Owners want to manage their sites with the latest technologies and information management systems. While many building automation systems (BAS) products are becoming IP-compliant, many existing buildings have older legacy and proprietary BAS systems, creating big problems for building managers.

To apply analytics on building performance, building owners are locked into a cycle of needing to upgrade outdated BAS. But outright replacement and the means to justify ROI are difficult challenges to overcome. Many of these BAS don’t have the ability to offer much more than simple trending, and weren’t designed to provide any real operational diagnostics beyond basic alarms. What more: getting any kind of meaningful information out of a BAS can be complicated and usually has limitations on the data’s availability.

…Continue Reading on FacilityExecutive.com

https://facilityexecutive.com/2020/04/implementing-data-analytics-into-building-automation-systems/

Integrating data analytics into building automation systems has been difficult, but it’s getting easier.
By Rob Glance