When I say redlines and as builts what do you think of?

Do you think of how much redlines and as builts can impact the success of your project?

Do you think about how much redlines and as builts can impact the effectiveness of any future service calls?

Do you think of how redlines and as builts can massively increase or decrease the time you spend on a project?

You should!

By the time you finish this episode you will know:

• Why you MUST make sure you are dealing with the latest drawings on any project
• The #1 method for making sure your redlines get turned into accurate as builts
• How proper as builts will determine the success or failure of your service career

CSI MasterFormat is the defacto standard for specification formatting. But how does it work?

What are the gotchas you need to be aware of?

By the time you finish this episode you will know:

• What MasterFormat is and how it is organized
• What you can and cannot change in a specification
• Key changes you can make to massively increase the effectiveness of your specification!

One of the greatest challenges faced by BAS professionals is getting remote access to their BAS.

In this episode, I teach you my four-step process to get IT to give you remote access to your BAS.

I also explore analytics. I unpack what analytics are, how they work and why they are important.

By the time you finish this episode you will:

• Have a four-step process for gaining remote access for your BAS
• Understand what analytics are and how they work
• Be able to describe the two types of analytics and the methods for collecting data

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Lately, there have been a ton of questions about data tagging and data normalization. But what does that actually mean?

This is a super important topic especially when you consider that having common data formats is required to implement analytics, fault diagnostics, and other advanced services!

In this episode, I'm going to dive deep into data. You're going to learn:

• What data is and how it relates to a BAS
• Why data normalization is important and how you can plan for it
• What a data tag is and how it is used
• How data is related to API's

There's a lot of noise and miscommunication out there about IT technologies lately so when BAM Nation member Jim e-mailed me asking about Zigbee I was excited to answer his questions and help clear up some of the things he'd been told about Zigbee.

In this podcast episode you will learn:

• What Zigbee is and how it works
• The two main types of wireless communication
• The differences between physical standards and data protocols
• How integration is independent (mostly) of the physical media

There’s been a lot of chatter across the Facebook group recently about Comm trunks and Mixing and matching different vendors controllers.

There seems to be a lot of misinformation out there and I thought I’d do a podcast episode where I discussed both topics.

These two topics are very much interrelated when you start to mix and match third-party controllers you can effect your comm trunk so it’s important to have a process.

In this episode I will be teaching you:

• My 5-step process for adding third-party controllers to an existing network
• My 7-step process for troubleshooting communication trunk issues

You just finished your first integration project! Your all excited you finally stepped into the world of systems integration.

But then it happens!  You get that call telling you something's not working.

Maybe it's a value from one of the points you integrated?

Or perhaps it's that a command to control one of the integrated systems is going through. It doesn't matter really why. You just need to solve the problem.

But how do you do that? How can you resolve issues with integrations?

In this podcast I'm going to teach you:

• The danger of double dipping on integrations
• Why data models matter
• How to step through an integration to find the root cause of your troubles

For a lot of folks, systems integration is the hardest thing they will ever do in their BAS career.

And I get that, some of my biggest screw ups in my career were related to system integration projects. That's why you have to listen to my latest podcast episode.

I've got all the scars from systems integration! In this episode I draw on this experience to teach you:

• How to quickly disqualify a potential integration project
• The 6 questions you must ask before every systems integration project
• The three different approaches to systems integration
• How and when to apply each approach

In the world of Building Automation, there are only a select few things you need to know in order to be awesome at your job.

One of these things is Proportional Integral loops.

I've gotten a lot of questions lately about PI loops and so I recorded this episode.

In this episode you will learn:

• What a PI loop is
• How the P and I are calculated
• The difference between deadband and error
• How to calculate your prop-band
• And much more!