OPNBuildings - Case Studies

Role of BMS In Carbon Savings

Sustainable Buildings: Can Building Control Systems help deliver one million tonnes of carbon saving?

Excessive Chiller Use

A recent example of energy wastage in an office block where a chiller is running excessively.

Poor Heating Controls

Real world examples encountered by OPNBuildings in heating systems over the years.

HVAC Upgrade - Irish Water

Irish Water added OPNBuildings as an independent third party to validate comfort and efficiency goals were achieved.

Air Source Heat Pump - UCC

How UCC leverage OPNBuildings to continuously monitor and measure achievement of carbon reduction targets.

Occupancy Monitoring - UCC

How the library team uses OPNSPACES to monitor indoor air quality, ventilation and occupancy density in the building.

Fault Detection - Fighting FCUs

An in depth look into the identification of fighting fan coil units using FDD and Analysis.

Legacy Platform Migration - EFT

How we seamlessly replaced and enhanced the energy monitoring platform at the flagship research institute, Tyndall.

Impact Of Gas Shortages

A look into how Irish businesses might be impacted by gas shortages in the short-medium term.

Energy M&V - Retail Store Upgrade

OPNEnergy provided measurement of energy savings and verification of sustained comfort in a flagship store.

Fault Detection - Heat Stratification

A real world example of severe heat stratification detected by OPNHVAC in a large retail store.

Proactive Maintenance - Ervia

How the OPNHVAC systems feeds into existing maintenance management systems for a more proactive approach.

Fault Detection - Excess Cooling

Detection of a faulty sensor that caused extreme loss of control and excessive cooling on a fan coil unit.

IOT Sensor Rollout - Air Quality

How we utilised the latest in IoT technology to roll out a large network of temperature, humidity and CO2 sensors.

Anomaly - Irregular Gas Use

How the OPNENERGY system detected and helped rectify out of hours gas usage in a large office building.

Fault Detection - AHU Hunting

Hunting between a gas fired burner and dx cooling causing significant wear and tear and wasteful energy consumption.

Fault Detection - Damper Failure

Failure of Intake and Return Air Damper actuators leading to reduced airflow and a potentially dangerous situation.

Fault Detection - Heat Recovery

Detection of the inefficient use of heat recovery on a critical air handling unit servicing a kitchen/canteen.

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