Taking Control: Two Building Management Systems for Two Major Facilities

Facility Solutions for High Performance Buildings Manage Smart. Manage Green.

Indoor Environmental Services www.ies-hvac.com Sacramento-916-988-8808 Santa Rosa-707-571-7480

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Facility Solutions for High Performance Buildings Manage Smart. Manage Green.

Indoor Environmental Services recently completed a Building Management System (BMS) installation at the new Grainger Distribution Center in Patterson California. Grainger is North Americas leading supplier of maintenance, repair and operating products with $7.2 billion in sales last year. It is a Fortune 500 corporation with 18,000 employees.

The BMS system was installed to control the mechanical system, lighting, and to meter the use of electricity on the LEED GOLD $50 million distribution center. The 820,000-square-foot facility will house more than 300,000 different items for sale to businesses and government agencies. The facility incorporates a two-story, 40,000 square foot office area together with 780,000 square feet devoted to warehouse and distribution operations.

The building-management system installed at the new Graingers distribution center facilitates the integration of various subsystems into one user-friendly, manageable solution operated from a central point. The system offers favorable energy savings for the entire plant.

Its use is twofold: not only does it monitor critical areas and alarms, bring up remote energy and water meter readings, but it also switches lights and air-conditioner units on and off throughout the warehouse and offices to offer beneficial energy savings each month. Light within the warehouse can be set either completely on/off or even to 50%, depending on operation of the area and on time of use, where natural daylight illuminates the warehouse satisfactorily. Lights and air conditioner units in the offices are switched off when they are not needed, or when there is no one working in the offices, which is sensed by the access control system that is also interfaced to the building-management system. Staggered starting of lighting and air conditioner units prevent high start-up

currents, which would otherwise increase the maximum demand. The purpose of a Building Management System (BMS) is to automate and take control of these operations in the most efficient way possible for building managers, operators and owners, within the constraints of the installed building.

The new Honeywell BMS System gives the Facility Manager the ability to monitor and control HVAC set points, lighting control, set occupied and unoccupied calendar schedules and receive alarms when something is not operating correctly. In this case Grainger also has the ability to monitor energy usage and shut off mechanical or lighting systems to remain out of peak demand loads and therefore decrease their energy usage and costs.

The system will also allow the user to determine if the alarm is a mechanical failure or something they can change in the system rather then calling a service mechanic and having to pay higher troubleshooting and repair bills.

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SenseNewsletter 9 Summer 2012The Buck Institute for Research on AgingThe Buck Institute for Research on Aging recently turned to Geothermal heating and cooling for significant savings on energy, water usage, maintenance and replacement costs. The Geothermal heat pump system will reduce the campuss carbon footprint by 53%. The new system was installed to help achieve energy self sufficiency, reduce energy costs and save water. By utilizing geothermal the Institute can substitute evaporative cooling towers, low and high pressure hot water boilers and legacy autoclaves glass washing equipment for a ground based system that is efficient economical and uses much less energy.

IES is an approved Honeywell Controls Integrator, (ACI) Contractor who furnished and installed the Honeywell Controls System on the new chillers, pumps, variable frequency drives and other mechanical components. This is one of the most challenging and complicated projects we have worked on with sequencing of the ground source geothermal pumps, the new Climacool heat pump chiller and sequencing the other three chillers to turn off and on to match the load of the campus that can vary from 300 to 700 tons. In addition to the Chiller Plant, IES installed controls to integrate with the flow hoods, exhaust fans, supply fans and a TekAir system that uses air valves to keep constant pressures in the laboratory areas of the new building. This helps the building management team carefully monitor the building. The Honeywell system provides IES the option of remotely monitoring the system to assist with program changes and alarms when assistance is needed. The buildings Vector Exhaust fans for the labs contain energy recovery coils that send heat from the labs exhaust system back to the comfort heating and cooling system for reuse, saving additional energy dollars.

Geothermal is helping the Buck Centers to achieve their energy and water reduction goals. They will go from being one of the largest energy users in Novato to one of the smallest. It is also enabling them to stay within the environmental impact reports limits for water use.

IES was proud to be the Honeywell BMS installer with the other mechanical companies that installed the mechanical systems and geothermal loop. The project is close to winding down as we finalize the commissioning and sequencing of the mechanical components.

For more information on Energy Reduction Programs or Building Management Systems please call:

Sacramento Mark Sampaio916-988-8808

North Bay Gregg Perry707-571-7480

Bay Area Office Mike Potts 916-997-9950

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Sense Newsletter 9 Summer 2012IES would like to congratulate our customers that were recently recognized in the North Bay Business Journal for Facility Mangers Awards. The Business Journal held its inaugural North Bay Facilities Managers Recognition Awards luncheon June 15. The awards were intended to recognize the people who work behind the scenes to make their organizations run smoothly. We congratulate you on your success and thank you for the relationship we have with you.

Award Winning Facility Managers

Sue Maddigan, Exchange BankAVP, Facilities & Purchasing ManagerExchange Bank, 545 4th St. Santa Rosa707-524-3252; Exchangebank.com

Sue oversees 20 Exchange Bank Branches and 2 Administrative Office Buildings.

Ralph ORear, Buck Institute for Research on AgingVP, Facilities & Planning Buck Institute for Research on Aging8001 Redwood Blvd., Novato, CA 94945 415-209-2056 buckinstitute.org

Ralph oversees a biomedical research facility comprised of three buildings situated on 417 acres. The buildings total 245,000sf and house laboratory and support facilities along with an auditorium, atria and conference facilities.

Matt Rudie, Enphase EnergyFacilities Manager, Enphase Energy1420 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma, 707-763-4784; www.enphase.com

Matt oversees: Enphase Energy, which is a high-tech solar micro inverter systems producer. We currently are located in five floors in three buildings at our headquarters in Petaluma, with additional facilities in Santa Clara; Boise, Idaho; China; New Zealand; France; and Italy where we design, research, test and manufacture our products.

Sal Balderrama, TrivascularFacilities Supervisor, Trivascular3910 Brickway Blvd., Santa Rosa 95403707-543-8800; www.trivascular.com

Sal Oversees 110,000-square-foot building with 24,000 square feet of clean rooms used in manufacturing (class 100,000 rating).

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4 If your building has a built-up or variable Air Volume system, consider having the system re-commissioned. Over time the original sequence of operation gets changed to maximize individual comfort rather than the building comfort. Make sure the boilers are not running when its hot outside, the economizer is operating correctly and that you are taking advantage of free cooling. Check to see that temperature set points, occupied schedules and holidays are programmed correctly. Make sure you are taking advantage of optimum start/stop and staggered equipment starts to save even more energy.

5 If your building does not have a Building Management System (BMS) consider installing one to control hvac, lighting and other energy loads. Systems can control card readers and tie into security. You can receive alarms when the system does not operate correctly and you can review either through a computer or smart device such as a smart phone or tablet wherever you are. You can make changes to the system remotely, or if a service call is needed the

technician can pinpoint the problem prior to arriving at the building saving troubleshooting time.

1 Create an Energy Team to police the building, educate employees and motive people to shut off lights, computers and other electrical appliances when not in use. Allow the