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How to Write a Standard: Usefulness

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Site Admin

The foundational requirement implicit in all standards is that execution teams will read, understand, and execute them. If they cannot do that, then the standard is not useful. The usefulness

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Failing a Good Test is Better than Passing a Bad Test

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Site Admin

Acceptance testing is meant to confirm that your system operates the way you want it to, but poorly written tests will disguise mistakes and give you false confidence about the

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Train Better

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Site Admin

Every organization knows they need to train their staff, but not all training is equal. In order to stay on the right track, training needs to be: Relevant – Training

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Network Traffic on BACnet/IP Systems

Posted on April 28, 2022 by Site Admin

The network infrastructure for most enterprise BACnet/IP systems can have extremely high throughput. Most of the sites I visit have no problem with network traffic in terms of capacity. The

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8 Ways Your Document Control Process is Hurting You

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Site Admin

Lots of sites don’t have good documentation. Many don’t have documentation at all. System owners often don’t understand the value of their documentation because their organization manages them incorrectly. Here

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Not sure how it works? Get the SDS.

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Site Admin

If you received an alert that your air handler had shut down, your first step would probably be to log on to your BAS and try to restart it. Building

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Improve Performance of Zone-Polling Reset Strategies

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Site Admin

Don’t look now, but your energy-efficiency programming isn’t saving you money anymore. The days of fixed setpoint air handlers are mostly behind us. Almost every site has, to some extent,

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Survive Cyberattacks – Have a Resilient Infrastructure

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Site Admin

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as part of its new “Shields Up!” program, recently asked private sector businesses to take steps to protect their infrastructure from Russian cyberattack. The

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Migrating from Siemens P2 to BACnet

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Site Admin

“It’s just a firmware flash” they said. “It’ll be fine.” “It’s just a firmware flash” they said. “It’ll be fine” they said. They were wrong. BACnet is a very extensive

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Semi-Custom AHU Controls

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Site Admin

I’ve been seeing lead times for Air Handling Units (AHUs) recently at upwards of 40 weeks. The unpredictability seems like it would make capital planning pretty difficult since you can’t

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