As owners continue to see pressure on rental prices, automating building and energy systems is emerging as a productive means to increase profitability. By investing in these systems, facility owners are locking in profitability gains by reducing energy use, staff and waste. There are a few reasons why automated tools achieve these goals.
Efficiency Improvement and Waste Reduction
First and foremost, building automation systems improve efficiency be reducing the power used during off-hours automatically. Additionally, they monitor temperatures during the day and slightly adjust to keep things comfortable yet at reduced power output levels. Third, they reduce the waste water used in HVAC cooling systems, wasted power consumption and wasted materials from unnecessary maintenance.
Improve Profitability
Reducing the power output automatically reduces the costs required to run a building. Facilities owners reduce power consumption by anywhere from 5% to 20% depending on the existing legacy systems. That immediately translates to the bottom line and NOI. Furthermore, maintenance staff are often reduced by one, two or three people. Those savings flow straight to the bottom line as well. While there is some upfront cost, the ROI recoups the value of the purchase in 2 to 3 years on average.
System Training
An investment in new building automation helps to improve the skills and capabilities of your staff as well. While less people are needed to run and maintain a building, the remaining staff can be more nimble and capable. BCS provides customized building automation system training- either on site or in our state of the art facilities to help your facilities team run their equipment as efficiently as possible.
