I would like to share this 2006 excerpt from the Building Design and Construction magazine white paper on the bottom line of building commissioning.
To put some solid numbers on benefits of commissioning, Evan Mills, PhD, and colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Portland Energy Conservation, and Texas A&M University (Energy Systems Laboratory) reviewed [...]
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I just love this subject. Do you know whether your building is sucking or blowing? Did you know that even a new building, built to the usual building methods, will leak air? In a new project, the key is to make allowance for that, and design, build and validate accordingly. [...]
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