The Smart Buildings Academy Podcast | Teaching You Building Automation, Systems Integration, and Information Technology

This is the end of our 8 part series on HVAC control sequences. In this episode, we will be discussing how piping, pumping, and pressurization work. In this podcast, we will be discussing

• How to con…

Water-cooled chillers are one of the main systems in large buildings. Understanding how to control a cooling tower properly is complex but it is also understandable. 

In this episode, we are going to…

How do chillers work? 

What do you need to know?

In this episode, we explore how chilled water systems work. We look at utilizing the concepts of heat transfer and evaporation in order to cool a buil…

Have you ever found yourself struggling to control the hot water supply temperature for a primary loop?

Or maybe you couldn't figure out the best way to stage the boilers in your central plant?

In th…

AHU's, MAU's, Face and bypass, energy recovery, humidification!!!

There are so many concepts that you need to understand about HVAC systems in order to control them with your building automation syst…

How do you control HVAC equipment with your building automation system?

In this episode of The Building Automation Monthly Podcast, we take a look at how to control terminal units and what we need to…

Is your customer's building automation system secure? 

How can you make sure your BAS projects are cyber secure? 

How do you know where to start?

In this week's episode, we discuss what cybersecurity…

What if you could make it so that your building automation server never failed?

What if every time your BAS server got slow it automatically sped up?

Is this even possible?

In this episode we discuss…

How do you plan your BAS workloads? 

How do you determine when you have enough staff?

How can you make sure that you are maximizing the profitability of your BAS projects?

In this episode, we answer …

How do you maximize your sales success? 

How do you grow your building automation accounts?

In this episode, I discuss the tips and techniques I have learned from top-tier sales executives as well as…

What is working in building automation?

What changes could you make to be more successful as a building automation business or in your building automation career?

In this episode, I discuss 11 of the…

Have you ever logged into a BAS only to find all the controllers and points offline?

What do you do? 

How do you troubleshoot the problem?

What if there was a proven approach to identifying why your …

Data Lakes, Digital Twins, BI...

Every day it seems as if the world of data is becoming more complex. In this week's episode, we will discuss exactly what today's BAS professional needs to understand…

Today's building automation world runs on data. But what is data? 

That's a question that the industry as a whole has failed to answer. In this episode, we dive into what data is, how data is created…

There is a saying that troubleshooting a building automation system is more of an art than a science. But, what if there was a methodology that was proven to reduce the time it takes to troubleshoot …

Have you ever wondered how a building automation system's web user interface works?

How does data travel from your web browser to the BAS and back?

How can you begin to troubleshoot these web user in…

You have what it takes to get a job in building automation. All you need is a clear plan. 

In this week's episode, I lay out a step-by-step plan to get your first job in building automation even if y…

What does it take to grow a building automation team and how can you grow a team during a talent shortage?

In this week's episode, we discuss how to organize and optimize your building automation bus…