(08)Articles
Our articles start from the field: a problem met on site, a standard widely misread, a tool we had to write ourselves. No empty communication — technical substance that is useful to building owners and operators.
Under Swiss law, nobody does. The four families of data a building produces, the three ways to lose control of them, and the six clauses to write before signing.
Read the article →Two 0–10 V signals make a VAV box work, and nothing more. Why damper position is the missing data point, what it lets you reset on the fan, and the six clauses to write into the specification.
Read the article →A specification is rarely closed on purpose. The three locks set without a second thought, why the protocol is not enough, and the six clauses that make a tender genuinely open.
Read the article →Four efficiency classes, A to D, under SIA 386.111. What the standard actually classifies, why most buildings sit in class C, the orders of magnitude, and the clause to put in the specification.
Read the article →168 hours a week, 47 of them occupied. Why time schedules drift without ever raising an alarm, the override hierarchy to put in place, and the table to annex to the specification.
Read the article →The heating curve is the most decisive setting in a heating installation, and the one nobody ever revisits. How to spot it without instruments, in which order to proceed, and what a lowering campaign really earns.
Read the article →412 points in the tender list, 11 read by the operator. What a useless point really costs, the data that is always missing, and the matrix to annex to the specification.
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