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Category Archives: Mentoring and Teaching
Training Opportunities
This is just a short post to let you know that I have updated the Training Opportunities page on the Commissioning Resources website so that it is current, including links to the classes I help support, may of which are … Continue reading
Lags, the Two-Thirds Rule, and the Big Bang, Part 3
In the previous post, we took a look at why moving the sensor that controls discharge static pressure in a variable volume fan system out into the distribution system will save energy compared to controlling for the pressure at the … Continue reading
Lags, the Two-Thirds Rule, and the Big Bang, Part 2
In the previous post, I describes a significant emotional event I experienced in an early attempt to use a remote duct static pressure sensor to control a large variable air volume system. The remote sensor approach represented an application of … Continue reading
Lags, the Two-Thirds Rule, and the Big Bang, Part 1
This string of blog posts started out as an ASHRAE Engineers Notebook Column. But they got to long for that format, so I decided to post them here. The story is an example of how I was mentored by a … Continue reading
The Persistence of the Benefits of Commissioning (Plus a Few Pictures of Legacy Instruments)
As you probably have noticed if you follow the blog, I love finding old instruments in my travels. I have even been lucky enough to save a few of them from the dumpster, like this resonant frequency-based tachometer … … Continue reading
The AMCA ASET-US Conference and Mentoring
Earlier this year, I was asked to be the plenary speaker at the upcoming AMCA ASET Conference in San Antonio, Texas. As many of you probably know, AMCA is the Air Movement and Control Association International and their mission is … Continue reading
Key Retrocommissioning Skills – A Follow-up
Hi there; I’m back after a fairly long break in posting. Another busy time at work and in life and spare time was in short supply. But, I have been working on a number of posts and a recent comment … Continue reading
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
Try This at Home! Please!
This post was inspired by a question from Alicia Breen, one of the students in a monthly retrocommissioning/ongoing commissioning class that I teach at the Pacific Energy Center with Ryan Stroupe and Tony Pierce. The class is a one day a month plus homework … Continue reading
A Field Perspective on Engineering 