Impact Energy Solutions offers a best in class "Automated Continuous Commissioning" (ACC) solution to our clients, through our strategic partnership with Scientific Conservation Inc.
The Federal Energy Management Program's (FEMP) Guidebook defines Continuous Commissioning as:
"An ongoing process to resolve operating problems, improve comfort, optimize energy use and identify retrofits for existing commercial and institutional buildings and central plant facilities. It focuses on improving overall system control and operations for the building, as it is currently utilized, and on meeting existing facility needs. It goes beyond an operations and maintenance program."
Continuous Commissioning takes advantage of the real-time data present in Building Automation Systems to provide ongoing feedback and analysis to building operators in order to identify detected operational inefficiencies and optimize energy usage. Commissioning and retro-commissioning no longer need to be thought of as static processes using snapshots of building data, but rather as an ongoing process in which operational systems are adjusted based on exact day-to-day, minute-by-minute conditions.
We at Impact Energy Solutions believe that Automated Continuous Commissioning is quite simply the most cost effective way for building owners and property managers to reduce energy costs, prioritize limited maintenance resources, and avoid catastrophic equipment failure.
"While most commissioning processes focus on bringing building operation to the original design intent, Continuous Commissioning focuses on optimizing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system operation and control for the existing building conditions. This is an important distinction."
Texas A&M University
"Instead of configuring a building for optimal performance just once with occasional tune-ups, ACC performs 24-7 monitoring and analysis of a building's energy consuming ecosystem... By continuously collecting internal data about what's going on inside a building, plus external data on things like the weather changes and utility pricing, limitations on operations' forecasting are beginning to lift. And with ACC solutions making their way to market, energy efficiency is evolving from buzzword to benchmark"
David Wolins - Scientific Conservation
"Commissioning is arguably the single-most cost-effective strategy for reducing energy, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions in buildings today."
Evan Mills, from Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory
