Ongoing Commissioning

Ongoing Cx

One sure way to guarantee your building continues to function optimally is to have it commissioned regularly, or what we refer to as Ongoing Commissioning. A building is a lot like a body. It is made up of complicated systems and many pieces of equipment that must work together to achieve optimal performance. Everyone knows, that it makes sound physical and fiscal sense to get regular preventive health checks for your body. And it makes sense for your building as well.Your building determines the frequency of on-going commissioning. Much like our bodies, if your building is optimally tuned and relatively young, then a walk-through and analysis of your BAS (Building Automation System) may be all you need annually. If your building’s systems are complicated and have suffered from major issues, then a more comprehensive check-up may be desired.

These benefits for ongoing commissioning with TMCx Solutions show:

• TMCx Solutions trains all of the field staff to problem-solve from a big picture perspective; to track back from the symptom through the entire system. This process ensures that small issues, often ignored or undetected are found, preventing them from becoming serious and costly to you.
• When TMCx completes our initial commissioning or retro-commissioning process with you, we have made sure your building is “Healthy,” with less risk of requiring expensive repairs, saving you money.
• A side-note to Healthy buildings is they produce “healthy” employees, increasing productivity and reducing sick time, making your bottom line healthier.
• TMCx has a suite of solutions that support commissioning, so our regular commissioning check-up can be more comprehensive, allowing us to examine various systems in detail, if required, which means you’re saving money in the short and long terms.
• Having TMCx as the independent ‘eye’ on your building, check-up after check-up, is like having a family doctor. You save time, because we know your building’s history and won’t require re-testing to set a base-line. Often the same team that commissioned your building will be back for the check-up. You can trust that we know your systems and will spot issues quickly. All of which, increases your bottom line.

METERS & METRICS: Diagnostic Trend Charting

• Visually analyze data to observe dynamic system performance related to occupancy, set-points, loop tuning.
• Infinitely customizable charts, grouping, colors, line-weights, etc. for pre-prepared chart
• Utility meter data can be imported down to 15-minute interval data and explored dynamically across any desired time period for historical trend, occupied / unoccupied pattern analysis, weather to energy statistical correlation, baseline v. nominal year comparison, and various other analysis, charting, and reporting capabilities.
• Data can be exported from the platform into an Excel^® spreadsheet for further custom analysis

DIAGNOSTIC TRIAGE

DIAGNOSTICS: Automated Fault Detection & Diagnosis

• Customized, highly configurable ‘Expert Rules’ to be set up which are processed each night on the previous day’s trended BAS data.
• Enormous amount of analysis is performed with “Diagnostic Alerts” screened by skilled Professionals who then create specific issues for corrective action by Owner or Contracted personnel.
• The analogy used to develop the process is a large amount of patients (building systems) and the need to perform triage to determine what needs to be addressed first and then diagnose the operating issue based on identifiable symptoms.