Case Study: Leading Construction Manufacturing Company achieves optimized energy efficiency and proactive building maintenance with PointGuard

How analytics helped to uncover the biggest wasters of energy use, and identify areas of improvement and equipment that needed upgrades

Leading Construction Manufacturing Company, occupying a 73,400 sq ft national corporate headquarters, faced complex energy and controls challenges from multiple brands and vintages of equipment, broken components, faulty communications and suboptimal control settings. They engaged PointGuard to evaluate performance and uncover the biggest wasters of energy using retro-commissioning and building analytics.

PointGuard’s engineers performed benchmarking, trend analysis, testing, on-site reviews and staff interviews, replaced chiller controls, enabled economizer free cooling, deployed a discharge-air temperature reset algorithm and adjusted heating offsets by 4+ degrees to reduce excessive cycling. PointGuard’s ongoing analytics now drives prioritized repairs under the maintenance contract, issues critical notifications (protecting the data center) and lets the owner identify and request data-backed remediation.