A Commissioning Team that Knows How to Optimize Facilities
We empower people and project teams so they can achieve their highest potential for client success. Our mission is to make our clients successful and our highly responsive teams are focused on improving quality of life for building occupants. Our commissioning (Cx) team fulfills this vision by helping building owners, operators and users get the most value out of their new or existing facilities.
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Federal Cx
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Design-Build and Field Cx
MEP Coordination & Aviation Cx
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Building Automation Systems
Ongoing Cx & BACnet Controls
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David thrives when working with high-performing teams that help each other learn and grow while bringing the owner's vision to reality. He is also passionate about helping others create and maintain their vision.
“Burns & McDonnell has demonstrated exceptional management and leadership. Their team as acted as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ commissioning lead and was able to counter excessive customer demands, which would have resulted in major cost increases and possible schedule delays to the program. This occurred at several points in the development of the Cx documents and the design-build request for proposal, which the Cx documents support. They also managed subconsultants in such a way that created a seamless team. Contractual and financial commitments were all handled in a professional and well-coordinated manner.”
- Benjamin Davis, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City
Operations Manager
Federal Cx
Brian has always loved working with teams to solve problems. He is not only focused on the end result, but also the process and collaboration of a diverse team working to achieve an end result that is in the interest of the client. Brian believes in the value that Cx can provide to designers, builders and clients to produce better facilities.
“I was impressed with the way Burns & McDonnell performed commissioning services and integrated with the entire project team to achieve LEED Gold certification. I also have to offer special recognition to Brian Schwartz. He demonstrated extraordinary professionalism and commitment to our project despite an evolving design throughout construction. I look forward to working with Burns & McDonnell again for any type of commissioning services. They made the job of commissioning our facility painless, cost-effective, and efficient and I would definitely hire them again.”
- Greg Brown, Sage Manufacturing Facility
Design-Build and Field Commissioning
MEP Coordination & Aviation Cx
Commissioning Manager
Ongoing Cx & BACnet Controls
12K
EMPLOYEE-OWNERS
100%
EMPLOYEE OWNED
60+
OFFICES WORLDWIDE
150+
Cx SPECIALISTS
#2
Cx Giant
Consulting-Specifying Engineer
15
MILLION SQUARE FEET OF ONGOING Cx PROJECTS
200+
LEED CERTIFIED
Cx PROJECTS
50+
INDIVIDUAL Cx CERTIFICATIONS
425+
Cx PROJECTS COMPLETED IN THE LAST TEN YEARS
$1B+
CONSTRUCTION COST FOR 10 Cx PROJECTS
We help you verify that buildings will function as you envision. Our Cx experience combined with the numerous Cx guidelines we follow (e.g., ASHRAE, LEED, ISPE, PECI, NIBS, NEBB, BCA, ACG, etc.) will give you the confidence that our technical approach will match your needs, technology, complexity and budget while providing program-level uniformity and standardization.
EXISTING BUILDING Cx, ENERGY AUDITS, RETRO-CxDue to the deterioration of buildings over time, we aim to optimize each facility's operation through our existing building commissioning, energy audits and retro-commissioning services.
BUILDING ENCLOSURE CxOur building enclosure Cx (BECx) consulting group can help you mitigate risk by creating a quality assurance process that reviews and documents the performance of a building’s enclosure. We follow industry guidelines — such as ASTM E 2183, NIBS Guideline 3 and ASHRAE Guideline 0, along with documents such as the enclosure design guide for federal office buildings, thermal integrity and airtightness NISTIR 4821 — to help us create a risk avoidance program.
BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMSOur controls group help our clients mitigate the challenges of implementing and integrating an enterprisewide facility management solution. By utilizing the BACnet communication protocol, we deliver high-performance environments that provide the essential command and control of facility assets and capture day-to-day energy and equipment performance data to execute proactive and effective facility management practices. We follow the ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135 and utilize the BACnet protocol and BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC) to securely bridge the communication gap of disparate building systems.
CONDITION ASSESSMENTSIt is important to keep your aging facility’s systems maintained regularly and operating efficiently. With understanding of the overall objectives of the facility, our infrastructure condition assessments include identifying and documenting current facility condition and deficiencies, recommending corrections for the deficiencies, providing cost estimates for corrections, forecasting future long-term capital renewal costs, providing/hosting information in a cloud-based server either on- or off-site, and providing equipment inventory and bar coding.
Cx PROGRAM MANAGEMENTOur Cx program management approach streamlines project-related processes, resources and methodologies. We also monitor and control projects by meeting program goals through document, schedule, cost and quality control.
PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE WRITINGWe develop preventative maintenance and continuous Cx procedures to align with our clients’ philosophy and resources. Our Cx specialists develop this custom process by interviewing the owner’s staff to understand essential needs and current behaviors. Our job plans cover various asset types, maintenance trades and recommended frequency intervals. The job plans equip the maintenance staff with a simple process and procedures to evaluate, maintain and restore optimum performance of the building systems.
MONITORING-BASED Cx AND MEASUREMENT VERIFICATIONSWe can optimize your operations and maintenance practices by integrating three components: permanent energy monitoring systems, energy analysis, and ongoing Cx. This analysis provides real-time equipment performance information to your facility operators. You can track energy consumption, detect faulty equipment operation and identify unusual energy or power consumption patterns as they occur.
FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICSOur fault detection and diagnostics software collects a large amount of data from a facility and can be customized to provide the facility management team key insights that can improve your facility’s energy efficiency, comfort and reliability. Our team analyzes the data and provides you with upfront planning, hardware/software implementation and results verification services.
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