Monitoring Critical Spaces with Fault Detection and Diagnostics [VIDEO] 

November 15, 2024

Monitoring Critical Spaces with Fault Detection and Diagnostics [VIDEO] 

In an era where facilities face mounting pressure to maintain strict environmental controls while optimizing operational efficiency, two industry leaders in the healthcare space are leveraging fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) technology for continuous monitoring of critical spaces. Their success offers a blueprint for all facilities that manage critical spaces—surgical rooms, labs, data centers, pharmaceutical…

November 8, 2024

FDD: The Essential Tool for Modern Data Center Facility Management 

Data center facility managers face constant challenges: maintaining 24/7 uptime, managing escalating power costs, and keeping up with increasing cooling demands of high-density racks. The pressure continues to mount as AI and machine learning workloads push infrastructure to its limits. Industry-wide, cooling product sales have surged 102% year-over-year, reflecting the struggle to keep up with…

October 15, 2024

Data-Driven Sustainability and Safety: Johns Hopkins Leverages Clockworks Dashboards in Global Energy Challenge 

In the busy chemistry laboratories of Johns Hopkins University, a partnership between energy efficiency initiatives and student safety was taking place this summer. The university’s Office of Sustainability and the school’s Chemistry Student Safety Committee collaborated on an innovative program. Designed around the ‘Shut the Sash’ competition criteria, the program not only saved energy but…

Clockworks Analytics Develops FDD Analysis for VRF Systems Monitoring 

VRF systems are ubiquitous in modern HVAC technology.  Invented in the 1980s and made commercially available in the United States in the 2000s, Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) systems are widely deployed HVAC technology comprised of large-scale ductless vapor compression systems. VRF offers the ability to dynamically heat and cool spaces through a method that is…

September 4, 2024

Reduce Carbon Emissions Using Fault Detection and Diagnostics 

Across life sciences organizations, facilities and operational leaders are tasked with developing and implementing strategies to reduce carbon emissions in the built environment. Over the past few years, carbon tracking has evolved from a secondary concern to a primary driver of business cases, impacting CEO KPIs, operational budgets, and sustainability teams. The challenge lies in…

May 23, 2024

Life Sciences Series: Carbon Reduction Without Capital Expenditures (CapEx)

With Tyson Soutter Learn how Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) empowers O&M teams to be sustainability heroes.  Many life sciences organizations are staring down aggressive net-zero and decarbonization targets. These are often driven by multi-decade, expensive capital projects while neglecting a simpler solution: optimizing existing building systems.   Grand decarbonization plans require massive investments, but those…

May 20, 2024

ASHB Keynote, “Transforming Facilities with Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD)”

The facilities management industry is undergoing a transformation towards proactive, analytics-driven operations. Leading organizations are leveraging Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD)—building analytics software that continuously monitors building systems and prioritizes the highest-impact issues—to unlock the power of their building data to accurately calculate cost impacts, detect energy-wasting issues early and reliably, shift to a condition-based…

February 29, 2024

Pharmacy Compliance Dashboard for Healthcare Facilities

We are excited to announce the launch of a new Pharmacy Compliance Dashboard, specifically designed to address the unique needs of pharmacy operations within healthcare facilities.  With a focus on compliance to the temperature, relative humidity, pressurization, and air change requirements specified in the USP 795/797/800 standards, this dashboard is set to improve the way…

February 23, 2024

Clockworks Analytics Spotlight: Meg Cantwell

Meet Meg. Meg is a Digital Building Engineer at Clockworks Analytics. Meg works with onsite technicians to configure Clockworks so operations and engineering teams can use diagnostic results to improve the operations of their facilities. While mapping Clockworks’ client sites onto the platform, Digital Building Engineers like Meg work with onsite technicians to understand the…