Performance Tuning
BUILDING HARMONY
Before a musician plays a note, they tune—listening closely, making adjustments, bringing each string or key into harmony with the others. When in tune, their instrument responds as intended and produces its best sound.
Buildings are the same. Mechanical, plumbing, lighting, building automation, and building envelope systems benefit from regular, purposeful realignment to perform at their best - together. When out of tune, energy is wasted, comfort suffers, and real operational issues are obscured.
Maximizing Systems Impact
We help Owner and Operations Teams define - or redefine - required and key building performance parameters across each automated system, leverage existing building automation systems, and optimize operating parameters under real-world conditions.
Our engineering-driven tuning approach balances field observations, data analytics, system diagnostics, and control refinements to maximize overall building systems performance - without requiring large capital investments.
Harmony Creates space
Whether your goal is a system refresh, energy savings, improved occupant comfort, enhanced system reliability, or reduced maintenance costs, our tuning process ensures your building performs as it was originally intended - often better.
Allowing Owners and Operations Teams to breathe a little easier - creating space to focus efforts and resources on other, maybe more important, pursuits.
Performance Tuning Services
Performance Benchmarking & Assessment
Performance Benchmarking & Assessment
Performance Benchmarking & Assessment
- Baseline performance evaluation of existing MEP systems
- Building automation system diagnostic review
- Review of operating sequences, schedules, and setpoints
- Analysis of BAS trend data and equipment runtime patterns
- Identification of performance gaps, operational inefficiencies, and failure points
Building Automation & Controls Tuning
Performance Benchmarking & Assessment
Performance Benchmarking & Assessment
- Refinement of control logic and operating sequences
- Optimization of temperature, pressure, and flow reset strategies
- Scheduling optimization and setpoint rationalization
- Correcting improper equipment staging or cycling
- Alarm logic optimization to reduce nuisance alarms
HVAC System Optimization
Performance Benchmarking & Assessment
Energy & Cost Reduction Measures
- Optimization of ventilation rates, terminal devices, and supply/exhaust systems
- Performance review and tuning for chillers, boilers, pumps, cooling towers, and central plant operations
- Heat pump, VRF/VRV, and DOAS system performance tuning
- Economizer and heat recovery system optimization
Energy & Cost Reduction Measures
Comfort & Indoor Air Quality Improvements
Energy & Cost Reduction Measures
- Low-cost/no-cost Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs)
- Load reduction strategies and performance curves optimization
- Occupancy-based control and demand reduction strategies
- Utility cost reduction through improved operating profiles
Data-Driven Performance Analysis
Comfort & Indoor Air Quality Improvements
Comfort & Indoor Air Quality Improvements
- Development of performance metrics and KPIs
- Trend-based diagnostics and system analytics
- Integration or enhancement of fault detection and diagnostics (FDD)
- Ongoing monitoring to ensure sustained performance
Comfort & Indoor Air Quality Improvements
Comfort & Indoor Air Quality Improvements
Comfort & Indoor Air Quality Improvements
- Stabilizing space temperatures and humidity levels
- Reducing occupant complaints through targeted system adjustments
- Improving ventilation effectiveness and compliance with ASHRAE standards
- Balancing equipment performance with overall building comfort
Implementation & Verification
Implementation & Verification
Implementation & Verification
- Quantification of tuning impacts (energy, comfort, reliability)
- Post-tuning verification and performance testing
- Documentation of measurable improvements
- Continuous commissioning strategies
- Staff training on new operating strategies
Typical Deliverables
Implementation & Verification
Implementation & Verification
- Tuning report with prioritized recommendations
- Updated sequences of operation and control logic
- Trend reports, diagnostics, and performance dashboards
- Verification of energy or comfort improvements
- Ongoing performance monitoring plans
