Improving real-world building performance through strategic design & delivery of building automation systems.

Services

At Sanitas, we believe in a wholistic approach to controls and commissioning that is oriented around real-world operational performance.

BAS Engineering and Design

Full design work for replacement of existing control systems. High performance sequence of operations. Open building automation system.

Commissioning & MBCx

Commissioning and analytics (monitoring-based commissioning) deployment for new and existing buildings to ensure quality delivery.

Controls and Commissioning Standards

Development of enterprise standards for design and delivery of BAS systems to ensure consistent and quality executions throughout the portfolio.

Controls Owners Representation

Owner’s advocate during design, construction, and turnover. We work to ensure the owner’s needs relating to controls, commissioning, and building performance remain front and center for each project.

Controls & Commissioning Delivery Philosophy

Many “fully commissioned” projects simply don’t live up to their design potential and are turned over to owners in an incomplete and inefficient state. The status quo incurs immediate and avoidable operational costs. Owners are locked in to proprietary systems that hinder their ability to keep the building running as it should.

For Sanitas, performance is about optimizing the measured energy and operational costs, not an energy model output. Our breadth of experience acting as an owner, design engineer, commissioning agent, and contractor provides a unique understanding of the impact of different strategies and decisions throughout the building life cycle. Our approach to true performance delivery revolves around 5 tenets:

Wholistic

No single element (design, analytics, construction, commissioning, or operation) will be able to deliver a high performing building in isolation. The consistency and cohesion of the various elements is vital. We focus on all stages of a building lifecycle. The approach allows Sanitas to take on a high level of accountability that isn’t found in traditional construction.

Proactive

If something can be coordinated or built early, it will be. No design or planning element should read “to be coordinated by contractor” unless it absolutely must be. We focus on forward-shifting as many delivery milestones as possible. Effort spent early in design and construction is orders of magnitude more impactful than effort spent searching for problems during turnover.

Simple

Complexity that might bring value to theoretical energy performance introduces significant risk when it comes to design, construction, and operation. Building performance shouldn’t hinge on lining up the perfect design, contractor, and building operator. The design needs to consider that a programmer can leave halfway through construction, that sensors regularly fail, and that facility operators can retire.

Empowering

An open BAS architecture returns control to the owner and empowers them to understand the building, operate it efficiently, and competitively procure services for construction and maintenance. No more vendor lock-in to proprietary systems and solutions.

Data-Oriented

All processes are backed by data. Analytics are essential to providing true and granular insight to the building operations. Analytics must be deployed as part of the startup and commissioning process. Only the measured results will gauge the success of a project.