Naming standards.
As you know I'm a bit of a standard fanatic.
The reality is most of the BAS problems I have experienced have come from when people went off into left field and created designs that just don't make sense.
And there is no other better example of this than in the area of naming. Zone temp, space temp, room temp. They all mean the same thing...
Or do they???
In this episode unpack what makes naming standards good and what makes them not so good..
By the time you finish this episode you will know:
Most BAS training at the end of the project is terrible.
I know you've been there. You bring in 2 dozen donuts and a jug of coffee and hope and pray that you can keep the customer's attention for more than 2 hours before they wander off (either physically or mentally). What if you could create awesome training that helped your customers learn your BAS?
What if this training was so awesome that your customers told everyone they knew about how awesome your company is?
Well, that is what I'm going to teach you in this episode!
By the time you finish this episode you will know:
Alarms, they can make or break your BAS. Yet so many building owners seem to just accept that having a crappy alarm design is just par for the course.
Why is this?
Is it possible to have a structured alarm design that prioritizes the issues that need your attention the most?
I believe it is and by the time you finish this episode you will know:
When I say redlines and as builts what do you think of?
Do you think of how much redlines and as builts can impact the success of your project?
Do you think about how much redlines and as builts can impact the effectiveness of any future service calls?
Do you think of how redlines and as builts can massively increase or decrease the time you spend on a project?
You should!
By the time you finish this episode you will know:
CSI MasterFormat is the defacto standard for specification formatting. But how does it work?
What are the gotchas you need to be aware of?
By the time you finish this episode you will know:
Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) plans. So many BAS professionals think they know what these documents are.
But do you really know what these documents are? Do you know which part of the plans contains what information?
By the time you finish this episode you will:
One of the greatest challenges faced by BAS professionals is getting remote access to their BAS.
In this episode, I teach you my four-step process to get IT to give you remote access to your BAS.
I also explore analytics. I unpack what analytics are, how they work and why they are important.
By the time you finish this episode you will:
Lately, there have been a ton of questions about data tagging and data normalization. But what does that actually mean?
This is a super important topic especially when you consider that having common data formats is required to implement analytics, fault diagnostics, and other advanced services!
In this episode, I'm going to dive deep into data. You're going to learn:
►What data is and how it relates to a BAS
►Why data normalization is important and how you can plan for it
►What a data tag is and how it is used
►How data is related to API's
There's a lot of noise and miscommunication out there about IT technologies lately so when BAM Nation member Jim e-mailed me asking about Zigbee I was excited to answer his questions and help clear up some of the things he'd been told about Zigbee.
In this podcast episode you will learn: