Altura continues to pave the way toward a more holistic building commissioning approach from start to finish—and beyond —through ongoing maintenance for the clients we provide services for, and the buildings we commission. Connected Commissioning services, BAS design, optimization, and enhanced controls coordination services were provided for the Kaiser Medical Office Building (MOB) at its Hesperia campus in California’s inland empire.

Altura delivered an integrated controls and commissioning process, going well beyond the typical commissioning approach. The goal of the integrated approach is to optimize project performance by commoditizing field level controls and unlocking Kaiser from traditional controls vendor networks, resulting in lower first costs and lower on-going maintenance costs while delivering a high-performance facility with reduced risk. As such, in addition to core commissioning tasks, Altura delivered the design documentation for the entire building automation system, supported bidding of the field level controls network with local building automation system providers, developed and deployed Kaiser-standard Niagara optimization programming and graphics, and documented standards to support future MOB development.

The analytics-driven commissioning approach was leveraged by Altura throughout the warranty period to ensure all potential issues were identified and resolved under warranty and ensured the building was tuned to operate at peak efficiency.