Building commissioning: energy savings at negative cost

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Climate Progress highlights the potential cost and energy savings to be had from building commissioning:

commissioning identifies the almost inevitable “drift” from where things should be and puts the building back on course, often making it perform even better than the original designers intended. (Why do we tune up our cars but not our far more complex buildings?)

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