Existing Building Efficiency Measures

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish you all a very happy, safe, healthy and prosperous New Year.
God bless you all; friends, colleagues, clients, partners and associates.
Special thank you to the DCSi Team. I am proud to have each and every one of you truly incredible people.
~Richard Farkas
  President
  Dynamic Commissioning Solutions, inc. (DCSi)


The First Step is Knowing What the First Step Should Be.
The first question a building owner needs to ask is, what do I want to achieve? In other words, what am I hoping to accomplish? Only then can you establish what the plan should be.

Now that existing buildings are receiving much attention, I find that many owners have mixed ideas about what they want. At first, they want a cost figure to retrofit their building...then, they want an energy model to determine what the building is doing...then, they ponder that they just want their building to function more efficiently...Oh, wait!....How about LEED EB!?! Then of course, the last words...Give me a proposal as soon as possible. My response is, to do what!?! Pick one...or pick all of them. But, please be clear about what you want.
Otherwise, you will not get what you want or even what you expected. (Also, LEED EB has been revised to EBOM and now O&M.)


It really comes down to the questions, do you want an energy audit or retro-commissioning…or both? Moving forward, it is then critically  important to “plan to manage and manage to plan”.

DCSi’s Existing Building Plan is sensitive to existing facility operations and is developed with the customer, the contractors and subcontractors in mind so as to minimize any inconvenience to building occupants and operations. The cooperation and agreement of all parties is necessary to insure a smooth construction process with little or no interruption to the daily functioning of the facilities being upgraded.

A substantial part of our work includes design review and optimization of mechanical and electrical systems to improve comfort and conserve energy. Our goal is to improve the efficiency of fuel and electrical use through a wide variety of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system designs, energy cost reduction services, indoor air quality investigations and remedial design.

Through the utilization of the our services, DCSi can assist with:
• Design / Retrofit of Mechanical and HVAC Systems
• Design / Build of On-Site Generation or Co-Generation Systems
• Energy Plant Reliability - Training
• Design / Retrofit of Electrical and Lighting Systems
• Design / Retrofit of Energy Management System or Temperature Control Systems
• Design / Retrofit of Power Monitoring/Metering Systems
• Chiller Plant Upgrades / Replacements
• Electric Motors and Variable Speed Drives
• Refrigeration
• Heat Pump Applications
• Peak Reduction Strategies
• Specifications, Drawings and Bid Package Preparation
• Construction and Project Management
• Maintenance and Operational Instruction and Documentation
• Commissioning / Retro-commissioning / Recommissioning


Know who to ask when you need help and / or information.
At DCSi, questions are free. The right answer can be PRICELESS.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Dynamic Commissioning Solutions, inc. (DCSi)

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