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December 17, 2021

BAS Vendors and Training: Why Ongoing Training For Your Staff Matters

As you consider selecting a new building automation system (BAS), you’re not just investing in a robust and powerful software engine. You’re investing in a relationship with a new vendor.  As you and your facility staff are evaluating your BAS upgrade, there’s often one critical element that we see many of our clients don’t consider: Access to training. The moment
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November 19, 2021

Dispelling the Myths of Building Automation Systems (BAS) and Internet Security

A Cloud-Based BAS is Inherently Secure. Here’s What You Can Do to Protect Your System from Cyber Attacks Your building automation system (BAS) is a cost-effective investment tool that integrates your building’s critical systems with information technology to reduce energy usage, increase comfort, and, ultimately, operate the building more efficiently. But with more advanced technology come more challenges, particularly when
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October 26, 2021

7 Steps to Selecting the Right Building Automation System (BAS) Vendor

A Building Automation System (BAS) is the control center for your entire facility. Think of it as a brain: All of your main systems operate at peak efficiency when they’re all connected to a single hub. Before a facility manager replaces your current BAS, there are several aspects to consider.  On the surface, it’s potentially difficult to distinguish one BAS
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October 25, 2021

Improve the Air Quality in Your K-12 Schools with Federal Relief Funds

How COVID-19 Relief Funds Can Be Leveraged to Protect Your Students  When the country shut down during COVID, schools were at the top of nearly everyone’s concern. With three separate pieces of legislation, Congress ensured that educators and school administrators had plenty of resources to update HVAC and air circulation systems. Even when COVID is a chapter in a history
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September 27, 2021

What’s the Ideal Temperature in a Hospital?

If there’s one place where comfort matters, it’s a hospital setting. Ambient temperature is a key driver of occupant comfort in all environments, and the needs of a hospital are some of the most complex that we encounter when designing building automation systems. Factors to Consider Studies have shown that people’s physical and psychological health is affected by the thermal
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September 14, 2021

How Your Building’s Temperature Affects Workplace Productivity

Let’s get one thing out of the way quickly before we dive into this topic: it’s impossible to please every person with the temperature in an office environment. Due to biological factors such as body size, gender, age, metabolic rate, and more, people perceive temperature differently. However, research has shown that the temperature of office environments does have an impact
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