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ISO 55000: Unlocking the Value of Your Assets
The 55000 standard establishes a framework for monitoring and measuring asset performance, enabling data-driven decision-making. Organizations can track key performance indicators (KPIs), identify areas for improvement, and implement strategies to enhance asset efficiency and effectiveness. This focus on continuous improvement helps organizations get the most out of their assets and drive overall operational excellence.
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Enhancing Building Safety with Bidtracer: A Modern Approach for Engineers
How can a mobile app be leveraged to design safer buildings? By ensuring client and vendor integration throughout the building lifecycle.
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Future-Proofing Smart Buildings with Fiber Optic Infrastructure
Smart buildings are getting smarter. Rapidly evolving bandwidth, latency and data transmission rate expectations necessitate a better signal transmission infrastructure. Although fiber optics was seen as futuristic just a few years ago, it is quickly becoming the new standard. How can building automation companies use it to future-proof their projects? Why Smart Buildings Need Fiber…
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Obsolescence and Legacy Planning for Smart Building Systems
Throughout North America hospitals, universities. and office buildings infastructure is aging. Addressing the challenge of obsolescence through proactive legacy planning is essential for maximizing the value and longevity of smart building investments. By implementing these strategies before systems become outdated, building owners and operators can ensure their buildings remain at the forefront of technological innovation…
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TEN COOL THINGS to be grateful for this week.
Celebrate this week with gratitude for all things engineering, and tell those who bear this great responsibility that you appreciate all their hard work.
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Lighting Control for Existing Buildings
It’s an LED world now; traditional sources are just living in it. The next frontier of energy savings lies in bringing the lighting controls revolution to mainstream adoption in existing buildings via best practices. When upgrading a fluorescent luminaire—once the workhorse of commercial lighting—to LED, there are three options: replace the lamps with TLED lamps,…
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Custom Rebates Evolve
While prescriptive lighting rebates have significantly promoted adoption of energy-efficient lighting and controls, the custom rebate option offers a potentially highly lucrative path, particularly in projects with advanced lighting controls. In the large majority of the states in the U.S., utilities and energy efficiency organizations offer cash rebates to incentivize installation of energy-efficient lighting and…
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Bluetooth NLC Wants to Change the Game
In September 2023, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released Bluetooth® NLC, a series of specifications that define roles and responsibilities for common lighting control devices. Bluetooth NLC builds on wireless standards Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) and Bluetooth Mesh to provide full-stack standardization. By ensuring true multivendor interoperability across the control system, the Bluetooth SIG…
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Transforming Energy Efficiency
In 2021, the premium office building at 152 Fanshawe Street, situated in the heart of Auckland, was acquired with a clear vision: to transform it into a beacon of energy efficiency and sustainability. The goal was to align the property with contemporary environmental standards, tenant expectations, and future regulations. However, this vision was met with…
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Take a PERMANENT vacation from wasted time.
Today is Monday September 2nd, 2024 – Labor Day! Millions of Americans are off work, thanks to their employers extending this federal holiday to their teams. An entire nation of individuals who got the workday off today are collectively celebrating getting just an extra 8 hours to themselves. That’s how precious our time is, especially…
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Dock to Decom Data Center Asset Management with Nlyte Software
The moment a new piece of equipment arrives at a data center’s loading dock, its journey begins—a journey that will take it through installation, operation, maintenance, and finally, decommissioning. Managing this journey, from start to finish, requires a careful approach, one that can manage the complexities of modern data centers while optimizing every stage of…
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Meet Your Industry Associations; Fueling Our Community and Innovation
In the dynamic world of smart buildings, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Industry associations offer a valuable resource for professionals seeking to expand their knowledge, network, and business opportunities. Many newcomers, although they lack direct experience working in the BAS industry, have a strong understanding of smart technology and grew up with early…
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From Concept to Completion: QA Graphics’ Project Management Excellence
With thousands of projects in their yearly project portal, streamlining project management is vital to the success of QA Graphics. Ensuring timeliness, quality, and functionality throughout all aspects of their company is how QA Graphics stays at the top of the HVAC Graphic Industry. Defining Clear Scopes of Work and Project Flow Before any project…
