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How to Utilize Energy Efficiency as a Service in the Wake of COVID-19

Consulting-Specifying Engineer

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, many entities including schools, municipalities, water districts, utilities, and government agencies will turn to alternative, financially-sound solutions to meet their energy needs and energy efficiency goals. Art Thompson, Energy Sales Director of Southland Energy, shares insight on how Energy as a Service (EaaS) can be a safe, cost-efficient solution in response to infrastructure and energy efficiency challenges.

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Using Demand-controlled Ventilation in HVAC

New technologies are replacing the traditional concept of room controls with enhanced interfaces, improving energy efficiency by monitoring and actively adjusting air quality in real-time. To comment on the convergence of just how to a make a building both comfortable and energy-efficient, Integration Business Manager at Envise Michael Phillips identifies best practices of using DCV in HVAC to improve the occupant experience.

 

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Lean IPD Strategies from the Trade Partner Perspective

Building owners are transforming the construction industry with the increased adoption of a Lean Integrated Project Delivery (LIPD) approach. According to Southland Industries’ Business Development Lead Andrew Rhodes, the foundation for a successful IPD team starts by adopting a collaborative and transparent approach that consistently delivers increased value to the owner. “We make decisions based on what adds value to the project, and not what’s best for ourselves,” Rhodes explains.

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How Lean Construction Methods are Shaping the Future

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Adopted as a response to customer and supply chain dissatisfaction with the building industry, Lean project delivery methods seek to manage a project through relationships, shared knowledge and common goals in order to break down the traditional silos associated with construction. The results of this approach produce significant improvements in scheduling, in reducing waste and ultimately result in better overall project delivery and increased value to the owner. In a recent article, Erin Miller, Design Engineer for Southland Industries’ Mid-Atlantic division, takes an in-depth look at the ways lean practices can positively impact the future of building engineering and construction.

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The Blueprint

Andrew Tranovich

Building information modeling and lean principles have helped teams maximize production value while improving project coordination. Andrew Tranovich, senior project manager at Southland Industries, recently sat down with Engineered Systems to discuss lean construction, augmented reality, the firm’s work at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, and more. Southland’s use of BIM has been helpful in its recent tenant improvement project at a 760,000-square-foot San Francisco building, Tranovich said.

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The Department of Energy’s $47M Investment Signals Impending Change for MEP Providers

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In April, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies 2019 Funding Opportunityfor $47 million. Anthony Roner, Vice President of Southland Energy, provides his insight into how these areas of focus for the DOE match up with the changing priorities Southland Energy is seeing in the industry. “This investment is hugely beneficial in that it brings customers’ attention to areas where they can improve energy and operational efficiency,” said Roner.

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ENR 2019 Top 600 Specialty Contractors: How Long Will the Boom Last?

The trend toward alternative project delivery is continuing to accelerate, and most contractors– but not all – are beginning to worry that the market may be on the decline. Ted Lynch, CEO of Southland Industries, says that many overstretched contractors end up looking for mergers and acquisitions as an exit strategy when they get into trouble from too much work. Large specialty contractors like Southland Industries know that the market has the potential to grow in FY2020, and among the Top 600 Specialty Contractors, Southland is proud to be ranked #17 and currently occupies the #4 spot on the Top 50 Mechanical list.

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Santa Maria planning to add more sports fields, but project isn’t a hit with everyone

KEYT//SANTA MARIA, CALIF. –To meet the demand of an active and healthy lifestyle, the Californian city of Santa Maria reached out to the local community and heard the need for their public parks to have more field space and increased field time with adequate lighting for soccer and other sports. Southland Energy and PG&E are partners on the lighting of the new project, working with the Santa Maria City Council on a plan to keep the fields open later after 5 p.m. “We’re talking about a multi-million dollar project citywide,” said Recreation and Parks Director Alex Posada. “This will allow us to become more energy efficient and use the savings from that energy efficiency at our facilities to pay back the cost of the project.

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Lean Methodology for Contractors

At Southland, Nutt explains, our first move is to ask our people how we as a company can help them. “This applies everywhere but specifically, as a plumbing contractor, I have to ask the people who perform the particular tasks that are related to a plumbing contract and learn how to improve from the people who are doing the work,” Nutt said.

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