Large Building Re-tuning Resources
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a number of useful resources to help re-tune large (>100,000 sf) commercial buildings with building automation systems (BASs):
Re-tuning Classroom Training Material
Re-tuning is a systematic semi-automated process to identify operational problems in large commercial buildings that have BASs. The process relies on the trend data collected by the BAS to identify the problems. Download the Microsoft PowerPoint® training material slides.
Re-tuning Training Instructor Manual
PNNL also developed an instructors' manual that provides additional information on what to highlight in each of the re-tuning slides. This document is useful for someone teaching a re-tuning class. Download the instructor manual.
Energy Charting and Metrics Tool (ECAM)
ECAM is a Microsoft Excel®-based tool developed to analyze data (energy and data from building automation systems) from buildings. The tool makes extensive use of Excel® pivot tables to facilitate summarization and filtering of the data. The original development of ECAM was co-funded by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA), New Buildings Institute (NBI), and the California Energy Commission. The update to v2.0 was primarily funded through the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program, with additional funding from California Commissioning Collaborative (CCC) and NEEA. Version 2.0 also benefits from the incorporation of charting and functionality developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for their "Building Re-Tuning" Program. PNNL customized version of ECAM tool can be downloaded. Learn more about the CCC version.
Guide to Re-tuning Measures
Re-tuning focuses on a number of commonly occurring operational problems in buildings. PNNL is in the process of developing a guide focused on each of the measures. These guides can be downloaded.