Abundance Blog
News and ideas from Paladino's team of industry leaders.
Elevated Energy Performance Standards in Washington DC’s Existing Buildings
By Darren Bruce
Between the Omnibus Act and the Net Zero effort, Washington DC is taking a leadership role in energy performance and regulation. A few of the changes in energy performance requirements that are causing building owners, operators, and managers to take…
First Impressions: Introducing Jake Mello, Paladino’s New Commissioning Engineer
We are excited to announce that Jake Mello has joined Paladino as commissioning engineer in the DC region. We’re proud to have him on our team, and we want to give our clients, colleagues, and peers the opportunity to get to know…
First Impressions: Introducing Brad Greeff, Senior Commissioning Engineer
At Paladino, we make your building designs more sustainable, healthy, and resilient - and then we maintain them through an expert commissioning team. Meet the newest member of this team, Senior Commissioning Engineer Brad Greeff. Brad joined Paladino in June,…
The critical link between building commissioning and human performance: a Commissioning Project Engineer talks about becoming a WELL AP
As a commissioning project engineer at Paladino, I improve building performance by carefully analyzing data. Numbers are black and white - and unambiguous. Analytics are core to Paladino’s approach, and number crunching is in my DNA. If you want to…
Meet our commissioning team
Paladino has worked for more than 20 years to establish its reputation as a global leader in sustainability and green building. What fewer people know is that we have also developed a strong and highly capable commissioning team, staffed by…
Seven lessons learned on commissioning projects
By Brian Walker
Commissioning helps projects achieve greater occupant comfort and satisfaction, higher building energy efficiency, and ensures ease of maintenance for the building engineering staff. Ultimately, commissioning is where the rubber meets the road in terms of building design. Commissioning a building…
Partner with Utilities for Building Retro-Commissioning and Improve your Campus Energy Performance
Campus buildings have competing needs for thermal comfort, energy efficiency and ever changing space needs as well as demands on facility staff time to maintain comfortable and efficient environments. These competing needs often result in buildings that are not operating…
Commissioning in Perspective – How to Approach Cx for Success
Commissioning (Cx) is a service that sometimes causes apprehension and even reluctance from the design and construction community. There are differing opinions about whether the commissioning provider (CxP) is friend or foe in the building process. In a recent conversation,…