Education & Training - Smart Buildings Center

SBX2023 Session Highlight: Being Smart About Variable Occupancy

July 26, 2023 By SBC staff

Join us virtually for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2023 Being Smart About Variable Occupancy session on August 15th from 1:00 – 2:30 pm PT. Tom Marseille (Sazan Group) will moderate the discussion between Craig Engelbrecht (LONG Building Technologies), Zixiao Pan (Butlr), Jay Martin (Overcast Innovations), and Cindy Zhu (Prescriptive Data). You don’t want to miss this session — register now!

Session description
Whether you are in Seattle, Austin, Boston, or Philadelphia the hybrid work environment is the new normal. While building occupancy rates vary by location – and certainly by day of the week – the challenge of efficiently lighting. heating, cooling, and ventilating space is increasingly complicated. Should a building with 45% occupancy consume the same resources as one that previously had an 80% occupancy rate? Should this rekindle the concept of EUI per occupant versus EUI per SF as a metric? This session will explore the complexities of variable occupancy rates and how smart technology and practices can help building owners and operators manage resources and consistently meet health and comfort standards of their occupants.

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SBX2023 Session Highlight: Data in Context

July 18, 2023 By SBC staff

Join us virtually for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2023 Data in Context session on August 15th from 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT. Josh Felperin (alpscontrols.com) will moderate the discussion between Jason Hyatt (Puget Sound Energy), Reed Powell (MacDonald-Miller) and Pete Segall (ATS Automation). You don’t want to miss this session — register now!

Session description
Almost all buildings have the capability to generate volumes of operational data and many also deploy fault detection technology to alert operators of problems. Unfortunately, too often there isn’t sufficient context for that fault to properly diagnosis causation or what solutions to deploy to fix it. This condition can be particularly problematic for building owners and managers that don’t have the in-house expertise often found at enterprise scale entities. For these managers, the challenge is to find the right resources to put their operational data into context and do so affordably. This session will explore examples of how to put affordable solutions in place to properly put data in context.

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Pump System Fundamentals (PSF) Course hosted by Seattle City Light & NEEA 8/9

July 17, 2023 By SBC staff

Smart Buildings Center will be hosting Hydraulic Institute/Pump Systems Matter staff from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Wednesday, August 9, for a live, instructor-led event, co-sponsored by Seattle City Light and BetterBricks.

The Pump System Fundamentals Live Instructor-Led

Course is a training designed to educate attendees about the fundamentals of pump and system design.

Topics include system hydraulics and calculations, pump and system curves, system components, factors affecting reliability and energy consumption, and control.

Learn more with this informational flyer. Interested in attending? Register here! Don’t miss out on a special 25% discount using the code below.

SBX2023 Session Highlight: Independent Data Layer – A Path Toward Interoperability

June 29, 2023 By SBC staff

Join us virtually for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2023 Independent Data Layer – A Path Toward Interoperability session on August 16th from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm PT. James Dice with Nexus Labs will moderate the discussion between Sabine Lam (Google), Thano Lambrinos (QuadReal), and Trevor Sodoroff, DB Engineering. You don’t want to miss this session — register now!

Session description
The multiplicity of building systems and use cases has bedeviled building managers and operators for years – most acutely in the inability to have effective data sharing between them. Solutions ranging from open-source protocols to standard nomenclatures have meant progress, but a permanent fix to interoperability has remained elusive. This session will explore the idea of an “independent data layer” (aka a data lake or data aggregation layer) and how the creation of this middle layer between systems and application layer can unlock huge benefits for the building and industry providers who embrace the idea.

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SBX2023 Session Highlight: Moving Beyond Fault Detection & Diagnostics

June 16, 2023 By SBC staff

Join us virtually for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2023 Moving Beyond Fault Detection & Diagnostics session on August 15th from 1:00 – 2:30 pm PT. Jeremy Richmond with DB Engineering will moderate the discussion between Narjes Abbasabadi (University of Washington), Jessica Granderson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Troy Harvey (PassiveLogic), and Joe Zhou (Slipstream). You don’t want to miss this session — register now!

Session description
Fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) is now rather commonplace across commercial and institutional buildings working to identify abnormal operations of HVAC systems. Where do building managers and operators go from here? This session will offer a stimulating look at the next steps in technology and practice to improve building system performance and longevity. Panelists will detail their work demonstrating how FDD output can be utilized to create data driven maintenance tools that can automatically correct controls hunting faults. The panel will also cover new tools that enable AI technology for autonomous building operations. In addition, this panel will highlight expertise at applying augmented intelligence for performance at both the building and campus scale. Finally, the group will look at developments in ASHRAE Guideline 36, the best practice for high performance sequence of operations. This session is a must for anyone faced with the daily challenge of making building systems work well.

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SBX2023 Session Highlight: Indoor Environmental Quality

June 1, 2023 By SBC staff

Join us virtually for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2023 Indoor Environmental Quality session on August 16th from 1:30 – 3:00 pm PT. Christopher Meek with the University of Washington’s Integrated Design Lab will moderate the discussion between IEQ experts Seema Bhangar (US Green Building Council), Vivian Loftness (Carnegie Mellon University), and Stephanie Taylor (Building4Health). You don’t want to miss this session — register now!

Session description
While the Covid pandemic certainly shined a bright light on the importance of healthy indoor environments, creating and maintaining indoor environmental quality has a pre-Covid history and a post-Covid challenge. The ROI of health and comfort conditions is expressed in employee recruitment, retention, and productivity. This session will explore the lessons learned from this reinvigorated focus on healthy indoor air and technologies that were deployed during the pandemic and their measured or perceived benefits.

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