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Lighting control design insights By referencing a standard practice, design and documentation can be simplified to reduce confusion and errors during construction, commissioning and use of lighting control systems. ANSI/IES LP-16-22 provides a standard for documenting lighting control design intent. The control intent narrative and the sequence of operations are two documents outlined in ANSI/IES…

In this office building, control intent and sequence of operations for a lighting control system were created A lighting control matrix can be a valuable tool for documenting control intent and a sequence of operations. Often it is easier for contractors, lighting controls manufacturers and design team members to track lighting control requirements on a…

    What do you do when someone in your company is complaining to you because you did something wrong? Or maybe someone did something to you, and now you’re the one complaining. Are these easy conversations to have? Usually not. What makes them difficult is that we have relationships with people in our companies….

Computational tools—which harness the power of computation to streamline decision making—were once considered “nice to have.” Now they are integral to the design process. So why should clients care? The reason is simple. Computation gives planners and designers the ability to quickly translate thousands or even millions of data sets into actionable insights. Not only…

  Last week saw the release of the latest in a steady stream of surveys assessing the state of corporate boards of directors as they relate to sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. This one, from BDO, a global network of public accounting and tax advisory firms, looked at the most pressing board…

  Predictive maintenance is nothing new to many facilities managers. Today, building managers, facility operators, and others are discovering how beneficial and cost-efficient it is to know what is happening inside their infrastructure and how their operations are running—and when disaster might strike. Shutting down operations for hours, days, or weeks in the middle of…