On this episode of the Deconstructed: The Future of CRE podcast, host Vivek Kartha is joined by Paul Reale, Director of Building Operations Research and Training at CUNY Building Performance Lab. They talk about Paul’s experience at CUNY, and how their organization focuses on high-performance building operations.

Paul has been involved with many projects over the years involving data analysis, management and verification of building performance. But these days, he focuses mostly on how building operators can impact the efficiency of a building’s performance, and how advanced training techniques developed at the Lab can refine those techniques to boost energy performance while decreasing carbon emissions.

As Paul points out, the restrictions on emissions and the expectation of efficiently-run facilities are being elevated on a regular basis. This is thanks to mandates from government on a local, state and federal level, as well as to societal pressure out in the communities where these buildings are located.

Many of the buildings in question are decades old, designed when energy efficiency was not an issue. With new automation techniques, including retrofitting new systems to older buildings, proper operator training is showing great results in meeting and exceeding those new mandates and standards in buildings of all ages.

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