Dive Brief:
- Owners benefit if they know how their building systems are operating and what components may be experiencing "operational stray" from how things are supposed to be.
- It is engineers and contractors who can show them how to install the needed monitoring systems to really see into their buildings' behaviors, or at least make it easy to install such systems later on.
- When air-handling equipment or other systems begin to go outside their normal variances, owners should thank the people who have the ability to see problems that are sucking money out of their profits.
Dive Insight:
The Natural Resources Defense Council made the case for ongoing intelligence about a building's life systems by showing how much Tower Companies benefited from having contractors install monitoring systems in three of its buildings in Washington, D.C. The numbers proved the point when installations costing $144,320 saved the company $218,703 by alerting maintenance to irregularities that were easily fixed but never have been seen otherwise.
