1. The Need for a New
Facility Management
Framework:
Opportunities and Barriers
Rob Watson
EcoTech International
Advanced Energy Performance
Real Estate’s New Energy Asset
Management Paradigm
The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute
Baruch College, CUNY
2. Need for a New Asset
Management Paradigm
Buildings are undervalued
Buildings are integral to the majority of
economic activity
Should be:
Location, location, building
Unfortunately, most company
decision makers don’t care
Most building decision makers are
over their heads or over-worked
What suffers? People, Profit, Planet
3. Problem: Buildings are
Planet, Profit and People(?) Killers
Buildings
are the most damaging of
human activity
Little improvement since 1950 on an
energy/ft2 basis
Most professional estimates are that
buildings waste 30-40% of the
energy they pay for
Standard buildings are 5%+ less
productive than green buildings
Peoplespend 90+% of their time
indoors
4. Problem:
Building Management is an Orphan
Buildings are a
costly hassle for
most businesses
Diversion from the
business of
business
Lack the knowledge
for world class
operation
At best, real estate
is an appendage
5. Problem:
Building Operators are Overloaded
Building operators have
inadequate resources
Too few facility
management man- hours
Low maintenance budget
Low energy budget
Success is penalized
Buildings are getting
more complicated
(Often) Inadequate
expertise
6.
7. The Solution: Outsourced
Whole-building Optimization
Building operations and maintenance
is ripe for outsourcing
Business can focus on
business, while building experts can
focus on optimization
Optimizing energy and maintenance
can save operating costs and boost
the real value in buildings: people
Need to change analysis of value and
incentive structure
8. Only 3 things optimize buildings:
QualifiedPeople
Clear & Comprehensive Process
Good equipment & appropriate tools
Focusing on lifecycle cost benefits both
buyers and sellers
Problem prevention vs. problem solving
is more cost-effective
Problem prevention can largely be
automated
9. Automated Fault Detection &
Diagnosis (FDD): How It Works
Rules work in hierarchical order (sieve)
Sensors
Functions/
Rule Based
Machine
Learning
Faults
10. Principal Goal(s) of FDD
Prevention, preven
tion, prevention
Reduce (Eliminate)
Energy Drift
Catastrophic Failure
Wasted time
Increase
Maintenance
Efficiency
11. What’s going on? (Part 1)
Old contractor saying: “you can have
it good, fast or cheap….pick two”
Poor quality control (Speed ≠
quality)
Low bid blues
Rampant misapplication of a principle
12. What’s going on? (part 2)
A Good Question… …misapplied
What’s the ROI? Your legal team
What’s the ROI? Accounting department
What’s the ROI? Most forms of insurance
What’s the ROI? Most advertising/PR
What’s the ROI? Building optimization
13. Tale of Two Analytic Frameworks
Current 90/10
approach to buildings Building optimization
The law requires it Optimize for
(75%) minimized lifecycle
I want it (24%) cost (100%)
ROI (1%)
Minimize first cost
Waste energy for 2 Start with FDD
years, retro-Cx your Prevent energy waste
building and be a hero and premature
equipment failure
14. Automated FDD Economics 101
How do we justify
automated FDD if not
energy ROI?
JIT—Just in time
Doing the right
maintenance at exactly
the right time
JIT in action: Solar
powered garbage cans
saved Philadelphia 80%
on their garbage
collection costs…
Pattern of faults can
predict future failure
15. FDD Platform Can Be An Extended
to:
JIT Maintenance (EPRI studies
indicate 40% benefit)
Fix it once and know it’s fixed right
Accurate Capital Budgets
Energy Tracking
More accurate depreciation schedule
(tax benefits)
Focused training
Inventory prediction
18. Gazing into the Future?
Building lifecycle optimization
industry, partially driven by automated
FDD
FDD technology advances
Real time capacity and new capabilities built
into equipment (vibration analysis, meg test)
New more powerful “cloud” computing
languages
Better sensor technology
Expanded AI (Artificial Intelligence)
algorithms for better prediction
More powerful and effective whole-building
20. Lessons Learned
Rule #1: Garbage In, Garbage Out:
There are no “golden” sensor values
Rule #2: Almost nobody knows
what’s in their building
Rule #3: ROI based on energy
savings is impossible to calculate
Rule #4 : Neither customers nor
vendors know their limitations
21. BAS Systems and Sensors
This is what we
expected to see This is what we got
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NIST Calibrated Thermometer BAS Temperature NIST Calibrated Thermometer BAS Temperature
Notes de l'éditeur
I’ve seen studies showing that people are more productive in green buildings, I wonder about how productivity is affected by location/real estate values…
kBtu SF pre 60s: 84; post 2000: 81Amenity on many levels has improved & there’s lots more “productive” stuff inside; offices have grown more productive
At best, real estate is an appendageA cottage industry created within the businessLack flexibility in manpowerLack technology to significantly improve processesLack buying power for massive discount purchases
How many times have I gone into a building and the fancy BMS is unhooked and the building is being run by hand.
FDD = Fault detection & diagnosis
Googling “ROI lawyers” gave no relevant hits (I know there’s a joke in there somewhere)A survey of 243 CMOs and other marketing executives found that 57% don't establish their budgets according to ROI measures. 68% : historical spending28%: gut instinct7%: no metrics at allhttp://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/study-finds-marketers-practice-roi-preach/233243/
We often blame energy waste on ‘split incentives’ but people can’t sell what people won’t buy, so if you’re a seller of sub-standard efficient buildings, you’re to blame. If you buy a sub-standard efficient building you’re to blame (unless you fix it up)The median energy waste for a building after two years caused by energy drift is 15%.....according to a study by Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Eighty percent of inventory in maintenance shops is obsoleteAt a time when maintenance departments are being asked to do more with less…FDD is a great solutionCompressors don’t die, they are murdered:Statistics: less than 5% of compressors fail due to ageCustomer was averaging eight compressor failures per year at an average cost of $25K/ failure… Manufacturer blamed lightningWith FDD: over four years zero catastrophic failuresPredicted 50% decreaseApparently in areas where we did automated FDD, we were able to change the weatherI know there’s a story behind this bullet, but would need to hear it
Failure to communicate and understand costs and benefits of green and FDD