Altura Principal Jim Meacham is speaking at the 4th Annual Caltech Energy Forum, being held on October 30th, 2014 in Pasadena, CA. He is participating in a session discussing "Smart Commissioning." The session will discuss the process of analytics-driven commissioning in the context of pilot project underway at Caltech. Jim will be presenting alongside Matt Berbée (Director of Maintenance [...]
Most folks don’t realize just how easy (and lucrative) energy efficiency improvements in an existing building may be, even for buildings that have undergone audits or retrofits in the past. Our clients are often surprised to find that an energy audit or retro-commissioning program with special focus on actually picking these low hanging fruit, can easily uncover 10-15% or [...]
To all building owners and property managers out there: while a 3:1 return on investment might sound too good to be true, that is exactly the proposition you could be faced with when considering implementing an energy efficiency program for your facility. Pursuing a program to evaluate and tune-up your building’s energy-consuming systems can yield a surprisingly high return [...]
Haystack Connect Altura is proud to announce our sponsorship of the Haystack Connect 2015 conference. The event is the annual conference for Project Haystack (www.projecthaystack.org), an open source initiative to streamline working with data from the Internet of Things (IoT). The conference is a gathering of automation and IoT professionals to learn and share the latest techniques for connecting systems [...]
Recent talk about Big Data and Smart Buildings has me reflecting on how sustainable development and green building principles have evolved over the past 20 years, and I’ve become increasingly concerned that sustainability professionals will pay too little attention to lessons learned from past mistakes as we dive deeper into a growing sea of data on energy use and [...]
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