A South Carolina plant leads by example with its own service and cuts maintenance incidents by almost a third.
Key takeaways:
- Implementing Building Analytics service offered the Seneca plant new ways to identify and address maintenance, comfort, and energy issues for its HVAC system.
- Instead of having to rely primarily on monthly checkups to track performance, comfort levels, and energy and maintenance data, it automatically analyzed the plant’s data every five minutes
- The analytics service not only evaluated systems performance, comfort levels, and energy and maintenance data, but also prioritized areas for improvement and validated repairs to optimize building performance.
- Customized reports provided insight into avoidable costs, trend analysis, and prioritization of energy maintenance and comfort issues along with recommended actions.
- With the analytics service, those responsible for building and equipment performance at the Seneca plant have both local and remote access to detailed information about the plant’s system operations.
- Staff can now be more proactive in optimizing the building’s systems and energy consumption.
- The plant in Seneca realized an 83% decrease in avoidable energy costs related to HVAC operations, saving at least $9,000 in annual costs alone. In addition, the number of maintenance incidents went down by 29%, and comfort incidents decreased by 33%.
- The service paid for itself during the first year by providing automated, sophisticated analysis combined with quarterly recommendations and meetings to review opportunities for eliminating energy waste.
“Building Analytics diagnosed HVAC issues we didn’t even know we had and paid for itself in the first year based on saving energy and wear and tear on equipment,” says Joshua Coale, facilities technician at the plant.
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