Monitor, Analyze & Optimize

Realize the benefits of using technology to monitor building operations.

Monitoring-based commissioning provides you with analytical and diagnostic data that informs how systems are functioning, and the level of performance they are achieving. Scrutinizing and analyzing the data uncovers opportunities to enhance your energy savings and equipment performance. It also helps identify any changes to make or issues to address to achieve overall efficiencies. Taken together, these provide the potential to decrease overall operating costs.

At McCownGordon, our monitoring-based commissioning includes:

Utility Analysis
Benchmarking
Fault Detection & Diagnostics
Data Analysis
Building Operations and Maintenance Staff Resources
Understanding of the Building’s Personality
System Schedule & Setpoint Optimization
Efficiency and Energy Conservation Guidelines
Facility Improvement Recommendations

MEP systems inStowers Institute of Medical Research Support Facility

Building efficiency declines over time, increasing your operating costs and negatively impacting equipment life. Adding monitoring-based commissioning to your project as a risk management tool protects your net operating income.

Key Benefits

Minimize Unplanned Downtime
Improved Occupant Comfort
Reduced Utility Consumption
Facility Operator Training
Proactive Preventative Maintenance
Optimized Building Systems
Increased Equipment Life Expectancy
Increased Asset Value
Improve Indoor Air Quality
Improved Building Systems Documentation

Emily Tilgner

VP, Building Performance Solutions

Jereme Nollett

Senior Commissioning Manager

Andrew Shaver

Sr. Commissioning Specialist

Emily Tilgner

VP, Building Performance Solutions

Emily Leads multiple departments, including our MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing), Structural, Commissioning, Sustainability and QAQC teams. She brings a wealth of experience to the team, adding crucial knowledge when it comes to the systems of complex projects. With a long history in design, Emily’s unique perspective helps projects spot potential issues long before they happen.

Jereme Nollett

Senior Commissioning Manager

Leveraging his years of experience, Jereme specializes in building performance optimization, life- cycle cost analysis, cost-benefit analysis, carbon footprint reduction and energy conservation measures. He has a diverse background in system design, new and retrocommissioning, energy management, and test & balance with apassion for sustainable design and building optimization, resulting in an extensive understanding of MEP systems, their functionality and interaction with one another.

Andrew Shaver

Sr. Commissioning Specialist

Andrew brings a different viewpoint to the commissioning process. Coming from a background of facilities management and program management for construction activities in multi-site organizations, Andrew has spent time across the table as the owner. He has lead activities such as directing design decisions, operating procedures, leading multiple design-build projects, and understanding the cost associated with mechanical systems and their requirements. Over the last decade, he has worked to institute new and retro-commissioning in the facilities he served and advocated for optimization to prolong the life of mechanical systems, reducing operating costs, and aligning real-world metrics with design intent for optimal occupant comfort and usability.

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McCownGordon provides a thorough commissioning process that prepares buildings for long-term success.

Proper Building Optimization

Taking the time to understand a building’s personality enables us to fine-tune automation system schedules and operational setpoints, which reduces utility consumption, seasonally validates equipment functionality and performance and minimizes excessive equipment wear by reducing operational run times.

Warranty Support

By providing monitoring-based commissioning or active management to optimize performance, McCownGordon remains involved during the warranty period to provide additional support to the operations and maintenance staff and document/correct as many issues as possible while under warranty to save the owner from spending out of pocket.

Technical Advocate

After a building is turned over, the operations and maintenance staff are expected to take over system maintenance. Often times, unexpected issues arise that the staff may not be trained to handle. We remain a resource to equip staff with the information needed for optimal system performance.

Tools & Proactive Maintenance

Through monitoring-based commissioning, we not only verify functional performance and optimize the buildings’ systems, but we also provide and calibrate Fault Detection Diagnostic (FDD) rules as a proactive measure.

Seasonal Testing

When functional testing was done in the middle of cooling or heating season, we verify peak performance in the opposite season to ensure systems are prepped for potential seasonal extremes. We put the system through its full heating and cooling operations and test the in order to identify any areas of improvement when closer to natural conditions.