HIGHER EDUCATION
American University
How the American University campus implemented its comprehensive building optimization program.
As part of their overall commitment to excellence, American prioritized two major initiatives around facilities projects and sustainability. Installing a comprehensive building automation system (BAS), their leaders were still frustrated by the inability to convert this automation into the efficiencies necessary to achieve their cost and sustainability goals.
The Challenge
In 1893, American University was created as part of George Washington’s vision for a national university. Their alumni have become major leaders in domestic and foreign governments, politics, law, military, business, and a range of other fields.
As part of their overall commitment to excellence, American prioritized two major initiatives around facilities projects and sustainability. Installing a comprehensive building automation system (BAS), their leaders were still frustrated by the inability to convert this automation into the efficiencies necessary to achieve their cost and sustainability goals.
Industry
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Continuous Commissioning
InSite Solutions
InSite Formalize
InSite Optimize
Results
Within two years, American realized significant gains in efficiency, expense, and campus life comfort, including
Saved
On energy
Conversion
To renewable sources
Earned
Utility rebates
The InSite Solution
After analyzing American’s existing energy conservation measures, utility usage, and maintenance expenses, InSite was able to identify the crucial issues. First, a lack of visibility hamstrung engineers from identifying and fixing anomalies that waste energy and impact student comfort. While their BAS Integrated their systems, it lacked the learning algorithms for flexibility across dozens of buildings and continuous improvement.
American chose InSite’s Operational Systems (OS) module to bridge systems and equipment to enable centralized, proactive business intelligence across systems. InSite’s OS is designed to analyze and learn from systems data to predict usage, trends, and anomalies. The decreased utility usage is compounded by converting repair and replacement costs to a significantly lower maintenance expense. When unforeseen issues arise, the OS takes fault data and then sorts, prioritizes, and recommends the optimal course of actions.
Within two years, American realized significant gains in efficiency, expense, and campus life comfort. American’s team was able to enhance the way they utilized electricity, HVAC, and security to provide a more seamlessly comfortable and safe experience for students, faculty, and staff.
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The proven process has delivered higher education companies between 15 and 20% reduction in operating expenses and 2-3x returns on their service investment in just the first year, with equal or better savings as the work marches on.
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