(While you can read our Green Intelligent Buildings supplement quarterly and visit its website at www.greenintelligentbuildings.com, we will occasionally print some additional news from the world of sustainable and smartly integrated buildings here.)
Over the last couple months, this column has been about retrocommissioning, commissioning existing building systems that have never been commis-sioned before. There is no question that there is great potential to be realized through a retrocommissioning process, primarily in terms of improved system performance and decreased energy consumption. However, successful retrocommissioning is not something can be accomplished in a vacuum by a commissioning professional; it depends heavily on the building’s O&M staff.