Monitoring Based Commissioning
Enovity can provide monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) of your existing facility. MBCx services can maximize the savings from a traditional retro-commissioning process by making it easier for your facility management staff to identify future problems quicker and more accurately.
Monitoring-based commissioning usually requires that your facility have a state-of-the-art building automation system (BAS) because the BAS will be used to collect the large amount of building system’s performance data for detailed analysis.
The benefits of MBCx include:
- Identification of system deficiencies as they occur
- Permanent or semi-permanent system performance reporting
- Fewer calls to O&M staff
- Lower energy expenditures
- Increased occupant comfort
- Increased building value
What is MBCx?
Our approach to MBCx begins with an on-site assessment of building controls capabilities, particularly that systems capability to monitor and collect trend data over a period of weeks or months. We will interview staff, collect historical energy usage and inventory equipment. During this phase, we will develop a long-term monitoring protocol, using the building automation system (BAS) to trend systems’ performance over time to ensure proper function. We also set up software to analyze the trend data and report on system deficiencies as they occur. Energy and operational savings reports can be automatically delivered to building operators for immediate action to ensure that persistent savings are maximized.
Through this process the building operators can identify and prioritize energy and operational improvements based on expected savings, implementation cost, constructability and likelihood of acceptance. Enovity can also assist in identifying and correcting additional building deficiencies and can self-perform corrective measure implementation in a “turn-key” fashion or can help manage the measure implementation by a third party contractor.
Representative Projects:
Enovity 2006-2008 Monitoring-Based Persistence Commissioning (MBPCx) Program for Existing Buildings. Enovity designed and is currently implementing a MBPCx program for PG&E’s 2006-2008 Energy Efficiency Resource Program Portfolio. For more information, click here>>>
2005-2008 UC/CSU Partnership Program for Monitoring-Based Commissioning (MBCx) Program
- 3,375-ton Fackler Condenser Water Plant at U.C. Santa Cruz
Other MBCx projects:
- Phillip Burton Federal Courthouse and Office Building in San Francisco
- U.S. Federal Government’s GEMnet™ Energy and Maintenance Network