CLAIRVOYANCE
The Future of Buildings. Today.
The Future of Buildings. Today.
PartnerThe Clairvoyance team will help you bring your buildings to the highest standards.
Whether motivated by a sustainability objective, a reduction in operating costs, or the demands coming from tenants, bringing in the right partner is a critical decision.
Clairvoyance will help you implement and integrate predictive controls, analytics, and energy dashboards into the daily operation of your building, getting the most out of your building.
And for real estate owners and managers, Clairvoyance will provide a rollup view of portfolio performance, energy consumption, along with the building-level drill-down capabilities that complement the dashboard.
From manufacturing and transportation to services, and but also for buildings. While new construction is following increasingly stringent standards, sustainably running a building is also becoming a point of focus.
A predictive controls strategy will achieve that. The anticipation of the various factors impacting indoor climate will result in a reduced energy consumption and a commensurate reduction in the building’s carbon footprint.
While the term predictive seems to be a new addition in the building jargon, some of its underlying concepts have been applied by buildings’ operators for a number of years.
Starting to cool a building earlier in anticipation of a hotter day is not new. Similarly, some staffs will take advantage of a morning chill to cool down a building when the afternoon is expected to be hot and potentially require the running the chillers.
Predictive controls will look into the future at all factors affecting the indoor space and derive the best way to control a building to achieve the desired climate at the lowest cost.
Surprisingly, it is in the systematic application of these simple concepts throughout the day and on a zone-by-zone basis that adds to significant savings.
The technology commonly achieves a 20% reduction in HVAC costs and corresponding carbon footprint while also improving indoor climate.
But there is more. By modeling the building at the zone level, predictive controls allow for a finer management of individual space comfort. And while the most advanced controls strategy cannot rectify a poorly designed installation, or fix non-working equipment, buildings implementing MeteoViva Climate experience fewer tenant complaints.
Clairvoyance has partnered with MeteoViva to offer its customers the world-leading predictive control offering: MeteoViva Climate .
Considerable efforts are being expanded to make buildings more efficient. But grid reliability and the growth of renewable energy have made it clear that the biggest users of power need not only to be more efficient but also participate in helping manage the supply-demand balance. And that is where the GEB concept comes in.
If it may seem at first that buildings are expected to solve somebody else’s problem, it is a fact that reliability is an issue, it is a fact the generation mix is changing, and it is also a fact that the economic incentives to factor the generation/distribution challenges are make the GEB concept a compelling one (see informative roadmap for GEBs by the Department of Energy).
Clairvoyance and MeteoViva Climate will help you optimize the running of your building by taking into account tariffs. It will reduce demand charges, shift energy consumption away from the most expensive hours of the day and navigate Demand Response events effectively. And it can also factor-in energy storage, local generation, effectively turning your building into a Grid-Interactive Efficient Building.
With ever-shrinking staffs, building maintenance is expected to perform more with fewer resources. Making the challenge even more acute is the presence of older equipment for which expertise is no longer on hand.
For all these reasons, and also the desire the anticipate problems rather than just waiting for a failure or a degradation of the indoor climate, analytics solutions are rapidly being adopted by the industry.
By capturing large amounts of data from the building, its equipment and meters, Analytics solutions can provide valuable insights into the health of the installation. Signals can be analyzed in real time, identifying trends and patterns, and flagging anomalies to provide the necessary insight for remediation. All before undesirable consequences affect tenants.
When desired, these alerts can be used to create tickets so as to ensure that an action is being taken and the problem remediated.
While you implement measures to improve the performance of your building, dashboards are there to remind stakeholders of their benefits.
Whether it is reduced carbon footprint, reduced energy bills or improved comfort, building management, tenants, and staff will see clear evidence of the building move in the right direction.
Real estate portfolio companies look at their assets at the building and portfolio levels.
A healthier building translates into higher tenant satisfaction and rents, while effective management and monitoring of the equipment with help reduce operating costs. Ultimately, the building will deliver higher Net Operating Income, and a higher valuation.
Clairvoyance can help optimize each building and bring the key portfolio sustainability metrics in a synthetic dashboard to support a proactive optimization strategy.
