BUILDING SERVICES
UNVC Provides Critical Services for New and Existing Buildings
New Building Services
Systems Commissioning
UNVC provides whole-building commissioning for the following systems: HVAC, electrical, lighting, life safety, plumbing, controls, security, acoustics, utility plants, and related distribution systems. Our efforts typically begin in design, run through construction, and well into operations. For various clients, we provide whole building performance program development, including building optimization standards development, ongoing commissioning, analytics, and comprehensive operator training.
Enclosure Consulting and Commissioning
We provide enclosure consulting and commissioning, including design assistance, enclosure analysis, functional performance testing, and forensic consulting. Our services range from small historic renovations to campus-wide performance consulting and commissioning. We have guided over 100 buildings to meet an air tightness level of 0.1 cfm/sf @ 75 PA when tested per ASTM E779.
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Sustainable Consulting
We provide LEED, Green Globes, BREEAM, ENERGY STAR, Fitwell, and Sustainable Sites Initiative guidance and develop custom sustainable project requirements (independent of a certifying entity). Additionally, we provide Life Cycle Assessments for Embodied Carbon Reduction.
Energy Engineering and Enclosure Performance Modeling
Our team provides comprehensive energy engineering services for large and small projects. Services include energy modeling for LEED, non-LEED projects, ASHRAE Appendix G, utility Incentives, and performance path modeling. Additionally, we provide energy life-cycle cost analysis, net-zero planning, hygrothermal analysis, thermal modeling, and modeling for energy policy/standard development.
Facilities Optimization
UNVC offers many supporting consulting services to maximize your facility's performance. These include energy management program implementation, SkySpark building analytics deployment and management, and general high-performance building consulting.
Building Operator Training
UNVC provides comprehensive and ongoing training for building operators to minimize building drift and realize anticipated building performance. Leveraging our depth in controls programming, balancing, and facilities management, we can mentor operators with consistent hands-on training, troubleshooting, and issue resolution of new and existing buildings.
Re-Commissioning &
Retro-Commissioning
UNVC provides basic retro and recommissioning services for existing buildings, including building assessment, remediation plan development, testing, and verification. We also provide comprehensive services that enhance our ability to implement remediation efforts such as controls programming, wet and dry side balancing, and ongoing commissioning plan development.
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Ongoing Commissioning
UNVC supplies ongoing commissioning efforts customized to each building's operational practices, budgets, and staffing support. Focusing on maintenance, trending, analytics, and education, we partner with building operators to create financially sustainable programs that maximize each facility management dollar spent.
Building Assessment
We provide field verification, pre-balancing, and system condition evaluations prior to major renovations and long-term capital improvement planning. Design engineers, facilities management professionals, building operators, commissioning agents, and energy engineers provide our holistic assessment. Assessment services include all major building systems and enclosure systems, life-cycle cost analysis, cost estimating, project planning, scope development, investment-grade audits, and scheduling.
​Energy Management
UNVC assists with the development and implementation of energy management programs. Whether starting from scratch or looking to take current efforts to the next level, we can assist with basic energy benchmarking to deep energy retrofit projects and SkySpark deployment. This includes investment-grade audits, cash flow analysis, and project financing assistance.
Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESCO) Contracting Consulting
UNVC has extensive experience assisting owners as they solicit, develop, implement, manage, and verify their ESCO projects. We understand the nuances of these projects and how they should be managed and verified to ensure the owner realizes the full potential of their investment.
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Enclosures
We provide existing building enclosure consulting and commissioning services utilizing investigation, testing, modeling, imaging, and building evaluations. Through detailed assessments, we identify deficiencies, opportunities, solutions, and performance goals to inform owners’ long-term planning and budgeting for their building portfolios.