Insights
Practical guides from real buildings
Practical guides on the problems we see in the field: faults that keep coming back, lights left on in empty rooms, and ageing building management systems.
Investigation · 2 min read
Heating and cooling at the same time
How competing control strategies quietly waste energy and cause comfort complaints, and how to find them in your BMS trends.
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Guide · 1 min read
Office lighting that follows how the space is used
Why lights stay on in empty rooms, and how zoning, presence detection and daylight dimming cut energy use without hurting comfort.
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Guide · 1 min read
Does an obsolete BMS really need replacing?
Obsolete doesn't automatically mean unusable. How to assess an ageing building management system before committing to full replacement.
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Guide · 1 min read
Your BMS vendor has disappeared. Now what?
What to do when the company that installed your building management system is no longer around, and how to regain control of it.
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Tell us what the building is doing, or isn't doing.
You don't need to know whether it's the BMS, the HVAC plant, the switchboard or the programming. Describe what you're seeing and we'll work out where to start.