This article explores the issues associated with leveraging a necessary O&M expenditure in order to improve efficiency, sustainability, and performance.
As buildings, systems, and
equipment age, facilities engineering groups frequently are faced with the need
to replace equipment that has reached the end of its useful service life. Given
tight operating budgets and constricted timelines, often driven by an imminent
failure, it’s common for the engineering group to approach a trusted contractor
to obtain a price to replace current equipment with equivalent capacity. Thus,
projects frequently are handled on a design-build basis using the installing
contractor’s engineering expertise, but only to the extent necessary for code
compliance.
While expedient, this
approach often represents a lost opportunity.
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