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CxEnergy 2024 technical program announced
CxEnergy 2024 announced its technical program at the Town & Country Resort in San Diego.
Video: Methods of visualization testing for hotel smoke removal systems
This presentation illustrates methods of conducting smoke removal visualization testing in a hotel environment: atrium, ballroom and corridor.
Video: Commissioning HVAC systems for sustainable indoor air quality
A framework for commissioning HVAC systems for sustainable IAQ, guidance and integrating emerging approaches and technologies with traditional commissioning services, customer case studies illustrating best practices and ROI.
Video: Unifying data from diverse systems and sources to enable wholebuilding analytics FDD and KPI analysis
An introduction to the concept of an IDL and the factors involved in achieving the necessary functionality to acquire and normalize data to support real-world applications.
Video: Commissioning of food service spaces overview challenges and lessons learned
The Commissioning Process offers opportunities to overcome challenges presented in unique spaces and help us deliver buildings with safe and functional food service facilities.
Video: Deep dive into IAQ data using data analytics and machine learning
Interest in indoor air quality (IAQ) has increased substantially with COVID-19. Improved air cleaning techniques have been installed and their efficacy evaluated using IoT sensors.
Video: Commissioning of food service spaces overview challenges and lessons learned
Whether it’s a café in an office building or a full-scale restaurant, a meal is always nearby. When constructing large and complex facilities, the systems required for food service spaces are commonly overlooked.
Video: Enclosure commissioning maximizing value
Building Enclosure Commissioning (BECx) and performance testing are required and implemented on more projects than ever before.
Video: Lighting the fire under whole building commissioning
The new NFPA 4 outlines the requirements for integrated testing of fire protection and life safety systems, which is now being adopted as a code requirement in Building and Fire Codes across the US.
Video: Electric rate structures – importance of analysis
This session will examine some of the rate structures commonly used by utility companies and various incentives with the use of submetering the value of BECx.
Video: Case study – renovation of ASHRAE headquarters building
This presentation will show how a 1970’s era building was renovated into a net-zero building. This presentation goes through the process from the development of the owner project requirements through the selection of the design/construction team and finishing with the final product.
Video: Sustainability, decarbonization and electrification: Buzzwords or the future of the building performance industry?
Sustainability, decarbonization and electrification are appearing with increasing frequency in general and industry media. What do these terms mean in the context of our industry, and why are they important?
Video: Test, adjust and balance; Lessons learned for engineers, Cx and energy providers
There are project design and construction related challenges that are encountered during the testing, adjusting, and balancing (TAB) process. This presentation offers solutions and ideas to help overcome challenges that will help optimize system performance and prove that design intent has been met.
Video: ACG building systems commissioning guideline spotlight: electrical distribution equipment terminology
Where the construction industry appears vague or lacking in guidance for defining terminology, this presentation intends to provide several means of clarifying one such term: electrical power distribution, or electrical distribution equipment.
Video: Real examples from integrated systems testing and other imperial Cx podcasts
A look at real-world examples from numerous commissioning projects, with an emphasis on issues found during integrated systems testing.
Commissioning conference opens call for abstracts for 2024 show
CxEnergy 2024 issued a call for abstracts for presentations for its commissioning conference on more than a dozen topics.
Video: ACG Building Systems Commissioning Guideline Preview
This presentation offers professional insights and strategies on provider topics, from system specific Cx deliverables, to managing teams and directing resources, to marketing and preparing requests for services.
Video: Integrating Energy Modeling and Building Commissioning with an Energy Management Information System to Optimize Building System Operations
This presentation explains how building commissioning (Cx) services validate, document, and ensure compliance with design intent for MEP systems.
Video: Go Beyond Traditional Cx Processes: Ensuring Mission-Critical Facilities are Operationally Ready
This presentation explains how unplanned outages or unprepared systems and staff can have serious consequences for ongoing operations.
Video: $1.2T Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA) – Opportunities for Commissioning Agents 2022-2026
This presentation examines the role commissioning agents will play as the dollars start to roll out in FY22 and beyond?
Video: Case Studies in Improved Hydronic System Performance Via Effective Air & Dirt Elimination
This presentation will address how air entrained in a hydronic system fluid negatively affects the start-up, testing and balancing (TAB), commissioning (Cx) and more.
Video: Tomorrows commissioning, beyond MEP
This presentation focuses on the secondary systems and evolving practices such as Building Enclosure Commissioning (BECx) and the desire for buildings to have healthy air.
Video: Commissioning of Federal Buildings
A discussion on Federal building commissioning, high-performance building, guiding principles, approaches, documentation, lessons and more.
Video: Case Study: Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing a Hyperscale Data Center
This presentation will provide a case study of the testing, adjusting and balancing process at a hyperscale data center project in Texas.
Video: Light it Up: Lighting Controls Continue to Adapt and Improve
This presentation discusses the evolution of lighting controls, the current lighting control commissioning process, conflicting strategies, and common mistakes with this presentation.
Video: Don’t Forget the Fuel! 10 Things to Look for when Commissioning Your Generator Fuel Systems
This presentation will discuss some of the most common issues (and best practices) seen during commissioning of emergency power systems.
Video: Benefits and cost justification of cloud-based energy analytics
This presentation delivers a cross-cutting analysis of costs and benefits of energy analytic platforms spanning various construction vintages, mechanical systems, building end-uses, occupation patterns and technology providers.
Video: More Commissioning, Less Wasted Time: Trends in Software Integration & Automation
This session highlights four trends that influencing the future of commissioning work and what that means in the short-and long-term.
Video: Fundamentals of Test, Adjust, & Balance for Engineers, Cx & Energy Providers
This practical, information-packed session explains many of the key test and balance challenges—from practical system design considerations, to the TAB Process and more.
Video: Building Enclosure Fundamentals: Integrating Proper Building Enclosure Into the Design Process
This presentation highlights a process where the building enclosure commissioning authority or consultant can be integrated into the design process.
Video: Better Buildings for a More Sustainable Future
This session will look at commissioning and energy management through a sustainable lens, guiding participants through the different requirements for commissioning within various rating systems and finding a balance to integrating commissioning into all projects and show GHG reductions through reported energy savings.
Video: From Commitment to Completion – Promises Made/Promises Kept an energy case study
This presentation examines a single-owner office building approximately 250,000 sq ft showing the project’s progress from the initial energy audit and its findings to today’s energy footprint.
Video: Looking to the Future: Embracing Total Cost of Ownership & Avoiding Unintended Consequences of Value Engineering
This presentation will discuss value engineering concepts and reality, TCO approach and examples of both successful integration of TCO to the project decisions and the unintended consequences of value engineering without a look to the future.
Video: Efficiency, Sustainability, Resiliency and Security – Redefining Auditing
This session will examine how the scope of audits, condition assessments and strategic planning has expanded beyond evaluations for energy efficiency and equipment life.
Video: Comparison: NETA Standard for Electrical Commissioning and ACG Commissioning Guideline
This study is intended to contrast similarities and differences with guidelines and standards for electrical commissioning practices.
Video: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Fault Detection & Diagnostics (FDD)
This sessions explains how fault detection & diagnostics (FDD) analytical software is growing in popularity as a tool to support monitoring-based commissioning.
Video: Real-Time IAQ Data For Managing Key HVAC System Infrastructures
This session examines practical case studies that demonstrate the day-to-day utility of leveraging real-time IAQ data.
Video: Staircase Pressurization Systems: How to Manage Risk, Commission and Hand Over
This presentation explains the design and construction Cx-related issues, plus review the framework for commissioning and handover.
Video: Building Readiness and Reopening: Guidance and Case Studies
This session focuses on highlighting the core recommendations of the ASHRAE’s Epidemic Task Force (ETF) and move into an overview of the information in the building reopening guidance with regard to systems evaluation and mitigation strategies.
Video: Commissioning A Prison Complex: Overview, Technology, and Lessons Learned
This presentation will provide an overview of commissioning a prison complex project from design through construction, warranty, and into occupancy.
Video: Sample No More – How Automated Functional Testing Enables 100% Testing
This session will explore how commissioning providers use automated functional testing to improve project outcomes for both the owner and themselves.
Video: Whirlwind Recovery – Commissioning an Industrial Campus Rebuild Post-Tornado
As part of the rebuild process, Vermeer brought IMEG onto the team to provide commissioning services for the construction of a 500,000 sq. ft. Plant 7, 35,000 sq. ft. Eco Center, and a 4,500-ton campus chilled water plant.
Video: Reducing Energy 10% to 40% Utilizing Existing Building Commissioning Without Capital Investments
Engaging the services of a Professional Engineering firm to assist in achieving some level of energy reduction in their facilities is the first step to a sustainable energy plan.
Video: Optimizing Domestic Hot Water Systems for Peak Performance
The key to occupant safety, reduced energy costs, and maximized water use is ensuring hot water systems are operating at peak performance.
Video: Overcoming Challenges with Core and Shell Commissioning
The core building is designed to accommodate tenants of a perceived type. Any changes to the type or the amount of occupants drastically affects performance.
Company announces preliminary technical program
A preliminary technical program was announced for CxEnergy 2023, which will cover many topics for commissioning experts, energy management professionals, MEP engineers, building owners and more.
Video: Integrating Meter Data, Equipment and Tariff Rates for ECM Identification, Assessment and Verification
Data is essential for energy efficiency efforts. Interval meter data has long been the primary focus of analysis in M&V and energy analysis.
Video: Controls Contractor: TAB and Cx Friend or Foe?
This seminar looks at a project from a control contractor’s perspective to highlight challenges and why they are often the critical path for the commissioning process.
Video: CxA Workshop Live Q&A
This presentation focuses on challenges developing the ASHRAE building and how they were addressed by the design and commissioning team in order to meet the project goals.
Video: CxEnergy Virtual: Effects of Temperature Change on Building Static Pressure Measurement
The author of an ASHRAE Journal article on the subject leads this session to explain the effects of cold weather (temperature change) on building static pressure measurement when the indoor and outdoor references at two different elevations.
Video: Ensuring High Performing Pre-Engineered Metal Buildings Through Rigorous BECx
After building enclosure commissioning and air barrier testing, the buildings far exceeded minimum air barrier air leakage requirements, performing nearly at ASHRAE "Tight Building" Standard level- providing significant energy savings well into the future.
Video: Make OPRs Great Again
This session discusses OPRs as important tools at a time of increased scrutiny (through local codes and rating systems) on performance related to resiliency, health, energy and carbon.
Video: How Does Cybercrime Impact My Business?
Cybercrime has become prevalent because it’s easy and it’s really profitable, generating more than $1.5 trillion in 2018 alone.
Video: ASHRAE 90.1 Cx Requirement Changes and Comparison to the Int’l Energy Efficiency Code
ASHRAE Standard 90.1–Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings–was recently overhauled to clarify commissioning requirements for the 2019 edition. Learn more about potential changes.
Video: Signal to Noise Ratio: Can You Hear (See) Me Now?
Today’s systems promise wireless communications, visual recognition and audio acuity sensed by a variety of triggers.
Video: Multi-Phased Commissioning on an International Airport in Aruba
This course covers commissioning the expansion, the existing facility upgrade and associated BMS integration, through a blend of remote platform-based CX software, and traditional boots-on-the-ground means for Queen Beatrix International Airport in Aruba.
Video: Healthcare Emergency Power Supply Systems Commissioning: Clearing Communication Hurdles
The coordination effort to achieve successful functional testing of a large hospital system can be overwhelming but it can be rewarding and valuable to clients if planned right.
Video: Children’s Hospital of Atlanta Case Study – Highly Effective Commissioning
This commissioning effort on two new medical office buildings for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta puts special focus on how additional effort did not sacrifice project profitability.
Video: Succeed When You Leave: Strategies for Ensuring Persistence of Savings on Energy Projects
This course demonstrates how to develop a plan to defeat drift and ensure continuous savings in energy projects.
Video: “Balancing Act”: Strategies and Lessons Learned from Companies that Do Both TAB and Commissioning
Learn ways to promote combined services as a discounted approach and efficiently provide total system balancing and a complete building commissioning process.
Video: Commissioning for Reliability and Resiliency – Lessons Learned
The ability of critical systems to anticipate, resist, respond, adapt, and recover from a failure or disturbance – from natural disasters to intentional attacks to human error – can have huge consequences, and owners of critical facilities are adding formal resiliency plans to their risk management.
Video: Is an Audit & Retro-Cx an Rx for Energy Savings?
Learn how some energy management companies fail to achieve their goals, while others exceed them and what techniques they use to achieve success
Video: IoT and Cloud Computing Meet ASHRAE to Deliver Productivity and Energy Savings
IoT and cloud computing technologies enable pervasive building intelligence which improves indoor air quality (IAQ), occupant health and productivity while reducing energy usage,
Video: Challenges of Phased Projects from the Commissioning Perspective
There are challenges for the commissioning process with projects that have a phased turnover scheduled, but there are ways to mitigate them.
Video: Commissioning in the Building Codes
Commissioning has been increasingly integrated into codes and standards and there are tools commissioning authorities and code officials can use to support compliance with these codes.
Video: Using State-of-the-Art Fault Detection & Diagnostics Tools in MBCx
Automated fault detection and diagnostics (AFDD) is a powerful tool in the fast-growing area of monitoring-based commissioning.
Video: Using Data Analytics to Automate and Enhance the Commissioning Process
Consultants in commissioning, energy management, monitoring and verification analytics software is a powerful tool and it provides new service offerings to improve facility performance and eliminate drift.
Video: Benchmarking and Operational Achievements at Willis Tower
Rivion assisted Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) with achieving the ENERGY STAR certification, becoming the largest office building ever to do so.
Video: Cybersecurity for Energy Managers
Cybersecurity is an important aspect of project implementation, and will become critical as information and operations technologies converge.
Video: Water Audits & Water Management in the Energy Plant and Beyond
As droughts and other factors steadily increase the cost of water, conservation becomes increasingly important.
Video: Commissioning Electrical Systems in Mission Critical Facilities
Commissioning electrical systems in mission critical facilities requires great care and planning and save clients the extreme costs from system outages due to improperly tested equipment or insufficient levels of testing
Video: Fundamentals of Test, Adjust & Balance for Engineers, Cx & Energy Providers
This session explains many of the key test and balance challenges — from practical system design considerations, to the TAB Process, to obtaining meaningful and useful data — that if properly addressed in cooperation with an independent TAB firm can ensure that any project goes smoothly
Video: Tales of Commissioning a Net Zero Building: Lombardo Center at Millersville University
This case study presentation examines the challenges and rewards associated with making the Lombardo Center at Millersville University a net zero building.
Video: State of NFPA 3 Standard for Commissioning of Fire Protection & Life Safety Systems
This session will discuss why NFPA 3 was initially developed and how it evolved into a standard, who is involved in commissioning these systems and some common misconceptions related to commissioning them.
Video: Greater than the Sum of its Parts The Interdependence of MEP and Envelope Cx
This presentation will discuss the “whole building” commissioning process, industry standards, and code requirements to show how a well-integrated BECx + MEP Cx process provides synergistic benefits to building owners and enhances building performance.
Video: A Pragmatic Approach to Getting the Most out of Chilled Water Systems
The presentation covers how to identify opportunities in central plant optimization and the steps to address inefficiency.
Video: Commissioning a Biomass Heating System in a Remote Alaska Community
The Southeast Island School District (SISD) learned valuable lessons that led to improved Owner’s Project Requirements, revised design criteria, and important startup and operational criteria.
Video: Commonly Made Commissioning Mistakes
This list of commonly made mistakes and oversights illustrates a perfect storm of commissioning folly.
Video: Design for Dynamic Light: How to Create Successful Dynamic Lighting Systems
Quality of tunable lighting sources is shown in a way that can be easily specified based on performance.
Video: Energy Procurement: Next Level Practices for Todays Energy Management Professional
Details are provided on the process of creating use case scenarios through to a thorough sequence of operations.
Video: Energy Savings Opportunities on Compressed Air Systems
This presentation provides an overview of how taking a fieldtested approach and applying best practices can improve a system, providing energy savings and leading to better energy management.
Video: Commissioning of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium: Massive Project…Details Matter
This presentation demonstrates how commissioning activities were incorporated as early as possible into the construction schedule, reveals how Cx data was tracked to resolution, and highlights Cx activities for the stadium’s remarkable 1.2 million gallon rainwater retention and re-use system.
Video: Evolution and Benefits of a District Wide Commissioning Program
Orange County Public Schools is the ninth largest in the U.S. In 2009, OCPS initiated a commissioning program for new schools and major school additions limited to HVAC systems, construction and acceptance (testing) phase Cx services.
Video: FDD Software to Support Monitoring-based Commissioning & Building Optimization
This session explores how advanced energy and building analytics software unlocks the power of BAS data to enable monitoring-based commissioning, giving owners and energy managers the insights to improve energy efficiency, occupant comfort, and equipment longevity.
Video: How Will NFPA 4’s Integrated System Testing Affect Building Commissioning
This session will identify the types of buildings that require integrated system testing, and what model codes will require testing to be completed.
Video: Implementation of a Strategic Campus Sustainability and Energy Plan
This presentation analyzes the implementation of the policy, covering issues including energy assessments, commissioning, and long-term goals like achieving carbon-neutrality.
Video: Introduction to PACE: Funding for Energy Efficiency and Distributed Energy Projects
This session—which includes two case studies—will discuss how PACE works, what types of improvements qualify and how much funding is available.
Video: Leveraging Your BMS System to Identify Issues Before They are Issues
This presentation provides an overview of analytics and FDD. How they are implemented within BMS, how to use advanced analytics to predict facility issues, and how to use weather data to provide system control.
Video: Managing Commissioning in a 185-Facility Health Care Corporation
This presentation will focus on how HCA utilizes a Cx database to assist two commissioning agents with this workload.
Video: The Case for Cx: Updated Landmark Study Shows Evolution of Cx Costs & Benefits 2004-2018
This session will explore the results and findings of a 2018 update to the database and study, and discuss the challenges of accurate data gathering, particularly for ongoing and monitoringbased Cx.
Video: Trends in Water Treatment Planning for Legionellosis Mitigation and Prevention
This presentation educates design engineers, building O&M staff, and building owners about health concerns related to Legionellosis, a form of pneumonia caused by the Legionnella bacteria which lives in inadequately maintained building water systems.
Video: Using Infrared Technology to Define Energy Saving Opportunities
This practical, information-packed session explains many of the key test and balance challenges—from practical system design considerations, to the TAB Process, to obtaining meaningful and useful data—that if properly addressed in cooperation with an independent TAB firm can ensure that any project goes smoothly.
Video: Driving to Outcomes: How Evolving Energy Performance Policies Impact the Building Process
This session examines current and proposed outcomebased code provisions (including recent guidance from the NIBS) and how Cx providers and others focused on energy performance can assist building owners in achieving goals.
Video: Case Study: Re-Commissioning an Industrial Gas Chiller
This case study examines re-starting, re-commissioning, and optimizing an industrial gas chiller used for drying well-head natural gas.
Video: Integrate Operational Readiness Services with Building Commissioning
This session provides attendees methods and techniques for integrating operational readiness services into existing Cx offerings.