Search Results for: Benchmarking

Developing Retrocommissioning Implementation Budgets; Establishing the Big Picture

This string of posts started out as an e-mail response to a number of people involved with a Marriott training class where I teach the technical track.  As the e-mail got longer and broader in scope, I realized that the … Continue reading

Posted in Excel Techniques, Retrocommissioning Findings | Leave a comment

Retrocommissioning Findings: Scoping a Dental Clinic VAV Reheat System–Part 1

I’m currently involved with a number of field oriented classes in which the instructors mentor the students through a retrocommissioning process on a system in an existing building in real time.  Based on past experience with this process, I have … Continue reading

Posted in Air Handling Systems, Retrocommissioning Findings | Leave a comment

Key Retrocommissioning Skills

For a lot of us, including myself, much of what we have come to know and rely upon as our working skill set for dealing with existing buildings has been the result of self-study and field experience (some of which … Continue reading

Posted in Mentoring and Teaching, Retrocommissioning Findings | Leave a comment

Updated Resource List Plus Visualizing Airflow Around Buildings

Wow, when I look at the date on my last post, I see that it has really been a while since I have written something.  I guess things got kind of busy there for a while.  They still are probably, … Continue reading

Posted in HVAC Fundamentals, Resource List and other Resources | Leave a comment

Index Update: A Current Index to All of my Posts

While the search tool and archive system provided by WordPress on the right side of my blog, just below my picture, works pretty well, I occasionally find myself frustrated when I am trying to find a post on a specific … Continue reading

Posted in Index to Posts | 3 Comments

Investigating an Anomaly – Part 1 – Benchmarking

Last week, in the course of beginning a retrocommissioning process on a lab facility, I came across a bit of an anomaly and in the course of exploring it, discovered some useful resources. So, I thought I would share both … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Understanding an Anomaly – Part 2 – Average Daily Energy Consumption

In the previous post, we looked at how I used benchmarking on a recent project to compare the energy consumption in an Oregon laboratory facility with its peers. While down and dirty, the benchmarks could be interpreted to say that … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment