The Way Things Work: Publicly Available Cx Tools


Get up-close and personal with five of the most innovative, useful, and FREE commissioning tools available in the market. Learn about each tool’s features through live demonstrations and Q&A with the developers.

learnHVAC
9:00-9:30
Philip Haves, LBNL
Joseph Deringer, Institute for Sustainable Building Technologies

Using 3D simulation, LearnHVAC introduces students to fundamental HVAC concepts, such as the VAV box and fan economizer, in an interactive, real-time format.

CCC RCx Toolkit    9:30-10:10
Bill Koran, QuEST
Larry Luskay, PECI
Dave Moser, PECI

The California Commissioning Collaborative’s Retrocommissioning Toolkit provides resources to assist commissioning providers perform data analysis, calculate energy savings and produce retrocommissioning deliverables.

Break   10:10-10:20

Universal Translator   10:20-10:50
Reinhard Seidl, Taylor Engineering

The Universal Translator simplifies building commissioning and verification of energy savings by helping users process large amounts of data from building management systems.

Energy Charting and Metrics (ECAM) Tool    10:50-11:30
Bill Koran, QuEST
Ryan Fedie, PECI

ECAM, a tool for energy charting and metrics, facilitates the examination of energy information from buildings, reducing the time spent analyzing trend and utility meter data.

LBNL Functional Test Data Analysis Tool   11:30-12:00
Philip Haves, LBNL

Designed to assist commissioning providers, building owners and facility operators, this tool uses a library of data analysis routines to analyze functional test data obtained through a series of prescribed test steps.