Facility Professionals

Before recommissioning You must have a technology plan!

FIX Consulting can help you understand and develop a plan and program to lead you into the new brave world of management of your "fourth utility" and the recommissioning process.

FIX Consulting can be your program manager, commissioning agent and your facility Architect for the facility side of your IT enterprise. We manage the commissioning process  of your existing facility or facilities in regards to" Facility Nodes" and the commissioning and continuous commissioning of your new facility or facilities.

The process is as follows:

Step 1 - FIX Consulting, LLC, a Totus Company, can help you assess and work with your existing technologies including your current building automation supplier and others that  supply "Facility Nodes" to your facility or facilities.

Step 2 - We then bring together your IT professionals and your facilities professionals to map out a plan that will help incorporate technology into the commissioning process. Note: IT professionals may or may not be part of this process.

Step 3 - We then work with you to develop a budget and in a cost analysis to determine the best way to incorporate technology to save money for reduction of energy or increased comfort and safety for your facility or facilities

Step 4 - We breakout all costs and use a completely open book analysis of benefits and costs and then program manage within the budgets for a completely open, integrated and successfully implemented facility or facilities.

Who Is watching what Facilities Nodes?

Your Facility Nodes can include IT Backbone, Building Automation, Security, Fire Alarm, Life Safety, IAQ (Indoor Air Quality), Lighting Controls, Energy Metering and Monitoring, Equipment Interfaces including HVAC, Chillers, Boilers, Terminal Units such as VAV, Fan Powered Boxes, Heat Pumps, Computer Room Units (CRAC), Maintenance Management, Card Access, CCTV, EM Generators, Switchgear, Protocols such as BACnet and LONWORKS, Wireless including low powered and no power sensing and control, interfaces such as Dashboards, Web Appliances, Real-Time XML Services, Energy Star,  Real Time BIM (Building Information Modeling),  Middleware, and Global Web Interfaces with Control and Monitoring.

FIX Consulting. LLC, a Totus Company, will!

Our goal is to become your "go to" company as it relates to the "Facilities Nodes" that will become part of your IT infrastructure and your Existing "Green" facility.



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USGBC— Green fits message of worship buildings

The FIXnet™ Team - Saturday, January 02, 2010

As Americans are becoming more environmentally conscious, more religious groups are looking to make their worship spaces sustainable. The efforts range from small country congregations using energy-efficient bulbs to megachurches complying with complex green-building codes.

By going green, most worship buildings can cut their energy costs by 30 percent, said Jerry Lawson, of the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Congregations program. About 2,000 of the nearly 310,000 houses of worship in the U.S. participate in the EPA program.

 
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Where It's Greener

The FIXnet™ Team - Friday, January 01, 2010

"Where It's Greener: As sustainability becomes more important, these cities are setting the standard"
Author:    Tiffany Meyers
Source:    US News & World Report
Date Written:    1/27/2009

Cities across the U.S. have at last realized the need to take action against global warming. Implementing some of the most innovative, far-ranging environmental programs and plans for residents and, in particular, business owners, the 10 cities featured here have earned themselves a rightful place on Entrepreneur's sustainability map.

Chicago
Population: 2,836,658
LEED -Certified Buildings: 48 (More Than Any Other North American City)
New Take On Futures Trading: The Chicago Climate Exchange Is North America's Only Voluntary, Legally Binding Cap And Trade Program To Reduce Co2--The Future, Indeed.
The Green Exchange: At its launch this year, this renovated factory aims to be the epicenter of green commerce, housing more than 100 green businesses (greenexchange.com). 
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Green-Retrofit Work Thrives In Uncertain Economic Times

The FIXnet™ Team - Friday, January 01, 2010

As the recession grinds on, some consultants are finding an emerging outlet by updating older buildings from power hogs into green stewards. The trend is attracting a fresh round of eco-savvy tenants.

Chicago is home to two large projects, examples of advancing efforts to green up existing buildings. In early December, 172 buildings nationwide were certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Existing Buildings Rating System, a program created in 2004. More than 2,000 other buildings are seeking to obtain such certification, according to the Washington, D.C.-based group.

Green-Retrofit Work Thrives In Uncertain Economic Times 
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