BUILDING AUTOMATION CONSULTING SERVICES
Building owners and facility managers
A Periodic Preventative Maintenance contract provides almost zero value to the building owner, the tenant, and the BMS/BAS company.
Are you maximising the value of your existing Building Automation System?
Energy efficiency and year-on-year improvements should be built into normal Building Management System (BMS) maintenance. A Periodic Preventative Maintenance (PPM) contract may have been appropriate 20 years ago but provides almost zero value nowadays.
There must be a return on investment for the money invested in the Building Automation System’s (BAS) annual maintenance contract.
If you have cloud technology, then you must align the BMS contractor with the technology provider. The two, generally, do not collaborate organically.
Year-on-year:
The building’s energy efficiency rating should creep up.
Utility bills should slightly reduce.
Comfort complaints should reduce.
The BMS/BAS should be more reliable, more useable, and more intuitive.
Premium or important commercial buildings must have a long-term BMS strategy.
3 steps to generate value from your BMS/BAS
BMS Maintenance Restructure
BMS/BAS Maintenance specification.
Completely restructure BMS maintenance to support technology upgrades
Include traditional ‘pay extra’ enhancements into normal maintenance.
Get transparency in BMS/BAS pricing
Facilitate ownership and accountability
BMS Managed Service
We can technically manage the BMS service contractor on large facilities.
If you do not have analytics, we can provide mananalytics. We log into the BMS remotely and do the same fault detection checks that analytics does, plus optimisation analysis.
If you purchase analytics, we can provide the managed service.
BMS Capital Expenditure Plans
Get a 10-year financial forecast for BMS hardware and software end-of-life upgrades.
Never be surprised by an urgent, unplanned cost.
Reduce downtime and risk.
Forecast energy efficiency upgrades.
Forecast technology upgrades.
Forecast graphic, alarm, trend, and report enhancements.
Other specialist BMS/BAS Consulting Services
BMS Upgrades
End-to-end consulting services for BMS/BAS upgrades and enhancements.
BMS end-of-life upgrades.
Concept design report.
Upgrade specification.
Tender phase.
Construction phase.
Project management.
Energy efficiency upgrades (control strategy optimisation).
Network upgrades.
Cybersecurity upgrades.
Visualisation upgrades (graphics, alarms, trends, reports).
BMS Quality Specifications
Standardise the quality of all BMS upgrades and enhancements across your site or portfolio.
Standardise the quality of new construction projects and major refurbishments across your building or portfolio.
Standardise the quality of tenancy fitouts across your building or portfolio.
Rationalise the number of different BMS systems and contractors across your portfolio.
BMS Independent Advice
Get an independent analysis of your BMS/BAS.
What are the risks? What are your options? What will it cost?
What is the most cost-effective sequence to upgrade the BMS. Over 1 year, 3 years, or 10 years?
If you have a proprietary BMS, which components have locked you in? How can you release the lock-in?
Which local companies support your BMS/BAS?
A long-term strategy:
Provides transparency in BMS pricing.
Facilitates ownership and accountability.
Includes financial forecasting and planning.
Standardises the quality of project work across a portfolio of buildings.
Includes high-value activities.
Aligns the BMS/BAS company with third-party technology providers.
“Year-on-year, the building’s energy efficiency rating should creep up. Utility bills should slightly reduce. Comfort complaints should reduce. The BMS/BAS should become more reliable, more useable, and more intuitive. Premium or important commercial buildings must have a long-term BMS strategy. ”
INDEPENDENT BUILDING AUTOMATION CONSULTANT
Bryce Anderson
I am an independent Building Management System (BMS) consultant who started in the industry in 1998. The first 15 years working for BMS companies in South Africa, London, and Australia, before transitioning into BMS consulting in 2014.
This exposure to the wider Building Automation System (BAS) industry provided me with unique experiences and insights to develop custom solutions for real-life issues and constraints.
We are typically engaged building owners, facility managers, builders, mechanical consultants, and Independent Commissioning agents (ICA).
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