Reduce Carbon Emissions Using Fault Detection and Diagnostics 

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…

February 9, 2024

Unlocking Maintenance Efficiency: A Guide to Condition-Based Maintenance 

Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a proactive maintenance strategy that involves monitoring the real-time condition of building equipment to determine when maintenance is needed. While the concept is often discussed conceptually among operations leaders, more and more facility teams are now implementing this proactive approach to maintenance. Shifting to a condition-based maintenance strategy extends equipment life,…

January 2, 2024

Time to Check Those Leaky and Stuck Valves

As the weather changes and you switch units into heating mode, stuck heating coil valves and leaking cooling coil valve issues will become more prominent. Fixing these building maintenance issues now can help you avoid significant wasted energy from simultaneous heating and cooling, as well as reduce the number of hot and cold calls. In…

June 29, 2023

Case Study: University of Iowa’s FDD Program Drives $2.5M in Annual Energy Savings

Case Study Details: Software Vendor: Schneider Electric’s Building Advisor, powered by Clockworks AnalyticsService Provider: Basepoint Building Automation (formerly CI3)Number of Buildings: 47Total square footage: 6,880,000Start Date: Project Has Been Active Since: 2014Results: 2,100 tasks closed out, $2.5M/year in verified utility/energy cost savings Nine years ago, Katie Rossman (now the Director of Technical Operations Center at…