Abundance Blog
News and ideas from Paladino's team of industry leaders.
ENERGY STAR scoring is about to change
ENERGY STAR compares a building’s energy performance to that of similar buildings nationwide, and buildings have become more energy efficient in recent years. This is good news! It also means that if you benchmark properties in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager,…
Energy models in the era of the virtual workforce
I’ve worked on energy models for everything from local schools and libraries to towering hotels and multifamily high rise. The bigger the building or the more innovative the design, the more important it is to get an energy model. Energy…
Multifamily ventilation - help buildings breathe
By Darren Bruce
There’s a debate within the multifamily building community as to the best way to ventilate residential buildings. There are three competing design options that can be implemented in residential design: natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation, and a hybrid approach. What’s the…
First Impressions: Introducing Mary Hamann, Energy and Analytics Engineer
By Mary Hamann
Most people know Paladino as a global leader in sustainability and green building. But we also boast a strong and highly capable commissioning team staffed by some of the brightest building systems experts in the business. The latest addition to…
Energy Conservation Measures : a story from the field
By Darren Bruce
While performing a retro-commissioning process for an 870,000 ft2 outpatient hospital in the southeastern United States, dozens of Energy Conservation Measures were identified and presented to the facility managers. The facility manager had a modest budget to address these ECMs,…
Five strategies to improve energy performance in existing buildings
By Darren Bruce
Anyone who owns or operates an existing building should be scheduling energy audits and/or retro-commissioning. Here’s why: Improving building energy performance reduces costs, lowers strain on shared community resources, and demonstrates a commitment to environmental stewardship. Local jurisdictions nationwide are…
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…
First impressions: Introducing Darren Bruce, Paladino’s new Cx Manager
At Paladino, we not only make your buildings better, we maintain them through an expert commissioning team. Meet the man at the helm of this team, Darren Bruce. Darren joined Paladino in March, and his background in mechanical engineering and…
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…