BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Independent Building Automation Consultancy

We provide specialist BMS/BAS consulting services to building owners, facility managers, and BMS/BAS companies

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BMS/BAS Consulting services

80% of buildings in 2050 have already been built! As an industry, we must focus our efforts on the existing buildings market. The Building Management System (BMS) is probably doing less than 50% of what it is capable of. Before investing in technology to solve problems, make sure you squeeze everything out of the money you have already invested in the Building Automation System (BAS), and the money you are spending in annual maintenance costs.

Technology is the cherry on top of the cake. It’s not the whole cake. Technology is one component of an overall strategy. You should purchase technology at the end of a technology roadmap, not at the start. I.e., most of the problems people are trying to solve with technology can be solved within the BMS, where the problem originates.

After you have solved comfort, energy efficiency, and maintenance problems at the source, and maximised your current investment in the BMS, then purchase technology for the bits and pieces that the BMS doesn’t do well.

Building owners and facility managers, we have a suite of proven consulting solutions and products to maximise the investment that you have already made, and are making every year in the BMS.

BMS Companies, if you want to get proactive about this, differentiate your business from your competitors and build new revenue streams, then let me show you how to package up the products that building owners pay me to force you to do. BMS Companies need to start acting more like consultants and less like contractors.

Building owners and facility managers, start here:

BMS Master plans
Capital expenditure plans
BMS Maintenance restructures
BMS design specifications
Technical management
BMS Upgrades

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BMS/BAS Companies, start here:

BMS Maintenance Modernisation
BMS control strategy optimisation
BMS design reviews and advice
BMS end-of-life upgrades and future-proofing
Energy Management Systems and Analytics

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“Do you want a smart building? If you have a BMS/BAS, then you already have the infrastructure for a smart building. You already have a network, server, database, graphics, alarms, trends, reports, etc. You have already paid for it. And in most cases, there is no annual subscription service for the software. Or, if there is, it’s very small. For 90% of buildings in the world, this is all that you need. But it needs significant enhancement.

The mechanical consultant didn’t specify advanced energy-efficient control strategies, visualisation, or diagnostics. There wasn’t enough time, money or available resources during the construction phase. Only the most basic features were provided.

The infrastructure and tools are already there, we are just not using them to their full potential. Whether you are a building owner, facility manager, or BMS company, we can modernise your BMS, and unleash its true potential. ”

— Bryce Anderson - Lifecycle Controls

INDEPENDENT BUILDING AUTOMATION CONSULTANT

Building control systems started with very basic comfort control, simple graphics, alarms, trends, and reports. We didn’t care about energy efficiency and facility managers had low expectations for the BMS/BAS. We then skipped a step and went straight to cloud technology. For some reason, we didn’t evolve and enhance the BMS/BAS. From about 2000, the building automation industry has been stagnant, it hasn’t evolved to keep up with a changing market.

Opportunities for building owners, facility managers and BMS companies are almost endless.