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News and ideas from Paladino's team of industry leaders.
What role does Commissioning play in Net Zero Energy for new and existing buildings?
By Darren Bruce
This post highlights the important role that building commissioning must play in any Net Zero Energy strategy. A Net Zero Energy project is a building or group of buildings with significantly reduced energy loads, such that 100% or more of…
Understanding Building Commissioning
The practice of building commissioning (Cx) has quickly become standard practice for real estate owners and developers who want to maximize their investment because it delivers improved energy efficiency, workplace performance, and operational efficiency. Building commissioning is the professional practice…
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…
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…
Reduce maintenance costs and increase equipment efficiency with a CMMS or EAM
One of the cornerstones of green building is energy management, and our commissioning team particularly focuses on the energy consumption and operations of building equipment. But energy savings is just one metric that building maintenance professionals care about. In addition…
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…