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Whether you’re partially winding down your HVAC system or shutting down completely, it’s important to take the time to do it properly to prevent equipment damage and adverse impacts to health and safety. Here are some key considerations to help guide your decision-making process in response to current challenges.

Luis Casas reflects on five areas where building analytics technology helps REIT asset managers save money and make money.

Now, more than ever, large building owners and operators are looking for quick and easy solutions to cut costs and ensure business continuity in the face of large-scale disruptions. Here are five simple tips to help the manufacturing industry slash OpEx in non-critical areas and maintain health and safety for remaining onsite personnel, without compromising site production or profitability.

Responding to the near-term challenges in the current environment requires building owners and operators to take an agile approach to building management. Read the six steps to adopting a data-driven approach to maintenance.

In response to the near-term challenges associated with COVID-19 such as reduced occupancy, there are some smart and simple measures that building operators can implement to limit HVAC energy consumption.

Modern day technology, IoT and data analytics has now made it possible to effectively manage buildings without having to step foot on site, easing the pressure on teams by giving them the ability to control their building operations virtually.

COVID-19 has hit airport operators and airlines hard, and there is no telling when business will get back to normal. As foot and air traffic plummets and international airports start shutting down completely, airport operators are under immense pressure to cut costs and ride out the turbulence. CIM’s David Walsh suggests some quick and easy wins to be found in the airport plant room that will help slash unnecessary operational costs and build future resilience.

The core function of a BMS is to control hundreds of pieces of plant, equipment and lighting, yet recently, BMS providers have started adding ‘building analytics’ modules to their offering. When you consider the purpose of a BMS is to control a building, not to analyse its performance, it becomes obvious why these analytics solutions also come up severely wanting. 

In this time of digital transformation, where customers demand more, competition is rife and multi-directional, and asset value is dictated by a wider variety of factors than ever before, buildings have, it could be argued, grown more fragile still. Especially when you throw in the current state of the climate, and real estate’s immense responsibility in controlling the situation.