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Millen Paschich

Reporting overview
Reporting overview

Powerful reporting features help you manage your resources more effectively

Pairing creativity with profits and sustainability
Pairing creativity with profits and sustainability

Kara Bartelt–Director of Operations, The Hoxton Los Angeles–discusses urban design, architecture, and engineering in dynamic built environments.

M&V of new motor technology
M&V of new motor technology

Basin Street Properties is dedicated to sustainable building operations, and its M&V analysis of SMC motor systems retrofit in seven RTUs shows an estimated 10% total energy savings from fan energy savings of 53%.

20% of costs are rework and checklists are the cure
20% of costs are rework and checklists are the cure

Buffett's new doctor, and author of best selling The Checklist Manifesto, shows the power of simple checklists, and yet shoddy work is still costing building owners an extra 20% in construction costs and bigger maintenance budgets.

What is Normalized Metered Energy Consumption (NMEC)?
What is Normalized Metered Energy Consumption (NMEC)?

Mark Shahinian–President, Future Grid Coalition–discusses America’s rapidly changing energy infrastructure and Normalized Metered Energy Consumption (NMEC)

How we agree with Elon on data
How we agree with Elon on data

Tesla's CEO–Elon Musk–isn't shy about his opinions on moats and patents and data and data access. We think your building data is yours–download it with a click.

Hope, get up, and do it
Hope, get up, and do it

John Sterman–Professor of Management at MIT & Director of the Sloan Sustainability Initiative–discusses the power of process improvements and the role change management can play in society’s response to climate change.

Plug load hardware or pamphlets?
Plug load hardware or pamphlets?

Submeters show savvy power strips drop energy demand 9% per day over a 105-day study across three tenants and 57,000 square feet.

What Toyota’s lean principles tell us about building ops
What Toyota’s lean principles tell us about building ops

Richard Hart–Strategic Energy Management at Cascade Energy–discusses how building operators can save time and money by cherry picking the best ideas from lean manufacturing.

Sewing & Welding & Teaching Skill
Sewing & Welding & Teaching Skill

Steven Lubar–Professor of American Studies, Brown University–discusses what it’s like to take 13 first-years from the museum to the machine shop in search of a new understanding of skill.