Winter 2013

 

Retro-Commissioning Toolkit Available Soon

The California Sustainability Alliance has created a Retro-commissioning Toolkit to help local government staff develop and implement a municipal facility retro-commissioning (RCx) program. The RCx Toolkit complements existing portfolio management tools and utility management systems.

Included in this Toolkit is a description of the RCx Program development process, as well as necessary tools and resources to implement the program such as documenting and tracking results, references to common RCx resources and procedures, and model RFP language.

The RCx Toolkit is designed to be flexible enough to be a complementary resource for an energy manager in a large local government or to be the sole RCx Program management tool for facility and public works staff in smaller jurisdictions. Cities and counties may use the Toolkit to facilitate RCx for their entire portfolio of buildings, or for a self-defined subset, such as all fire stations or libraries. Alternatively, they may wish to use only certain procedures to guide staff through retro-commissioning those measures for which they are responsible, or to provide to their maintenance contractor.

The toolkit will be available on the California Sustainability Alliance web page (http://sustainca.org/) in early 2013.