The Company
The client is the owner and operator of the Multi-Tenant Business Center. The business center comprises several buildings covering 884,000 sqft, and the Center’s facilities offer office and conference space for rent, dining, shopping, and recreation.
The Challenge
In the summertime, the business center closed an entire building for 16 hours due to a malfunction in its balanced ventilation system. Over 22% of their business space was rendered unavailable as their maintenance teams worked to identify and eliminate the failure. Although the teams were able to identify and replace a failed induction motor in the HVAC system, they failed to detect other faults and remained unable to predict some future risks.
Major requirements included:
- Preventative maintenance against motor failure and vital service systems malfunctions
- Implementation of a dedicated monitoring system to support critical systems and equipment
- Introduction of a business management system (BMS) to ensure facility availability
The Solution
Aspects of the new implementation included:
- Optimized preventative maintenance of the building’s vital systems
- Reduced demand for routine maintenance of electrical motors
- Visualization and elimination of technical and commercial energy losses
- Increased time and availability to focus on the value within supported systems
The Result
Condition-based monitoring with PowerLink reduces failures, costs, complexities, and maintenance workloads while increasing flexibility and preparedness in maintenance planning.
- Business center regained lost 22% of capacity while preventing future incidents
- Over 90% of predictive maintenance alerts are accurate
- 17% Increased detection of HVAC and abnormalities
- 13% maintenance and repair cost reduction