Resources & Insights

If your team already certifies for NABERS, you've probably ticked off Green Star Performance v2's two biggest operational credits without realising it. Here's what the calculation guides don't spell out, and the one thing that can quietly undo both ratings at once.

Fault detection rules are only as good as the data model underneath them. A practical guide for BMS contractors and RCx firms to point naming, Project Haystack, Brick Schema, BACnet integration paths and the minimum point list FDD actually needs.

We went through every fault alert raised across our monitored portfolio over the last twelve months: more than 63,000 of them, across 600+ commercial buildings. This is what is genuinely wrong with commercial buildings right now, ranked by how many buildings have it and by what it costs to fix.

A fault list is not a quote. How engineering partners turn FDD output into a costed remedial works register, separating chargeable scope from work the maintenance contract already covers.

The investigation phase is the least differentiated work an engineering firm does, and it eats most of the budget. Here is how continuous fault detection changes RCx, MBCx and maintenance delivery.

"How would I know?" is the answer that ended an airline's old era. If that's the honest answer anywhere in your portfolio today, here's the three things the CIO needs to own before an auditor asks the same question.

The five steps we see working for commercial property portfolios pursuing net zero - and why doing them in order costs less and proves more.

On any given day, 40% of air handling units in commercial buildings are running with a fault. FDD is how you find them - and fix the ones that matter.

Article 2 of the Three R's series: the unit of the client relationship shifts from project to platform — and churn becomes visible before it happens.

How monitoring-based commissioning keeps buildings performing long after handover - and where most programs quietly fail.

Every services firm evaluating analytics software is really asking one question: will this platform work for us, or end up working against us? Eight questions that separate a partner from a competitor.

Independent has become a label vendors attach to anything that isn't a BMS. Here's what it actually means, why it matters that no one marks their own homework, and the seven things to pressure-test before you choose a building monitoring platform.