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January 21, 2010
Dashboards: not just a pretty face 
Imagine walking into the lobby of an office building you recently designed, and seeing the building's real-time performance displayed on a 42-in. flat-screen monitor. Displayed are the energy and water usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and even the photovoltaic (PV) array…
December 21, 2009
SCIwatch, Natural Logic Team Up to Offer Software and Services to Make Buildings Greener
Scientific Conservation, which unleashed its powerhouse SCIwatch automated continuous commissioning software-as-a-solution service this summer, has struck up an alliance with Natural Logic, a firm that's made its mark as a sustainability consultancy. The firms said they will provide joint customers…
December 16, 2009
SCI, Natural Logic Announce Strategic Alliance to Create and Optimize Energy Efficient Buildings
Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI), the industry leader in Automated Continuous Commissioning (ACC) software, today announced a strategic alliance with Natural Logic, Inc., “strategic advisors to the sustainable economy.” As a result of today’s alliance, the companies will offer joint customers…
November 23, 2009
Wasted opportunities to combat energy drift in commercial buildings
Today's solutions are the equivalent of treating a bloody nose ahead of a heart attack based on which patient entered the ER first, says CEO David Wolins of Scientific Conservation.
November 06, 2009
Data Acquisition Goes Beyond Tradition
“What we’re starting to see is a little bit of brain drain at our clients. They’re collecting all this data, but are not necessarily able to manage it or make sense of it,” comments Andrew Brodie, product manager with the…
November 02, 2009
The Cloud Beyond The Network
Just when we start to truly understand the power of networks, we are rapidly being introduced to powerful low-cost Web services that live in the cloud beyond the network. When we originally started our online magazine, AutomatedBuildings.com, we joked that…
October 28, 2009
SCI adds energy-measurement module to commercial building commissioning application
The techies at Scientific Conservation, which sell a service for monitoring the optimal performance of commercial building, have added a new energy measurement module.
October 28, 2009
SCI Beta Tests Solution to Deliver Super Accurate Predictions of Energy Use
Scientific Conservation Inc., the Berkeley firm that launched its innovative Sciwatch solution to tackle buildings' energy drift in June, has released its newest product for beta testing: an application that measures and predicts a facility's energy use so accurately that…
October 27, 2009
Scientific Conservation Introduces High Accurate Energy Measurement Application for SCIwatch
Scientific Conservation Inc., (SCI), a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions for the $5 billion commercial building market, today announced SCIenergy,™ a highly accurate energy measurement and optimization application for its SCIwatch™ Automated Continuous Commissioning platform. SCIenergy delivers a breakthrough…
October 26, 2009
SCI ANNOUNCES ENERGY BASELINING SOLUTION FOR $5 BILLION COMMERCIAL BUILDING MARKET
Scientific Conservation, a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions for the $5 billion commercial building market, today announced SCIenergy,(TM) a highly accurate energy measurement and optimization application for its SCIwatch(TM) Automated Continuous Commissioning platform.
October 23, 2009
Area startups find new ways to catch stimulus wave
Bay Area startups are developing creative ways to tap into energy efficiency, as billions of dollars slated for the sector begin to flow.
October 02, 2009
Energy Savings Never Out of Style at Neiman Marcus
Overseeing the engineering, energy management, sustainability, environmental/regulatory compliance and system-wide maintenance for The Neiman Marcus Group’s fleet of properties is a significant challenge. This is due not only to the number and size of the properties, which total more than…
October 01, 2009
The Emergence of Proactive Building Management Automation
As we have noted in previous articles, moving building management from reacting to changes in building operations to proactively identifying potential sources of system failure and addressing these anomalies before they impact operations, is now reality. The use of diagnostics…
September 29, 2009
Neiman Marcus rolling out new energy management solution
Scientific Conservation announced that The Neiman Marcus Group is rolling out its SCIwatch Automated Continuous Commissioning solution across its stores. Neiman Marcus is using the solution to proactively detect, identify and diagnose potential faults and anomalies affecting key mechanical, electrical…
September 21, 2009
The Cloud Beyond The Network
As more software and computer services move off-site, a look around suggests
that the collaborative power of cloud computing has already begun to reign for
those looking to harness real-time building information most efficiently...
September 14, 2009
Neiman Marcus taps Berkeley firm Scientific Conservation for energy savings
Scientific Conservation Inc. has landed a deal with Neiman Marcus to supply its energy efficiency software to the retailer’s stores. The Berkeley-based startup’s software will detect problems with the stores mechanical, electrical and heating and air conditioning units and then…
September 10, 2009
Scientific Conservation technology fights "energy drift"
Scientific Conservation sits at the intersection of green IT and green technology for more energy-efficient building management. Founded in 2007, the company offers a software platform called SCIwatch for what it has dubbed Automated Continuous Commissioning. In laymen’s terms, this…
August 24, 2009
Scientific Conservation Receives Frost & Sullivan 2009 Enabling Technology of the Year Award
Scientific Conservation Inc., (SCI), a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions for the $5 billion commercial building market, today announced that it has received the Frost & Sullivan 2009 Enabling Technology of the Year Award in the Automated Continuous Commissioning…
August 10, 2009
Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the US Economy
In this report, McKinsey & Company offers a detailed analysis of the magnitude of the efficiency potential in non-transportation uses of energy, a thorough assessment of the barriers that impede the capture of greater efficiency, and an outline of the…
July 31, 2009
Automated Continuous Commissioning: The Path to Optimized Operations & Energy Efficiency
Persistent monitoring and diagnostics of system operations directly impacts sustainable energy efficiency in commercial buildings. Examples include everything from detecting heating and air conditioning programming errors to identifying out-of-adjustment settings on control systems, improperly balanced parallel chillers that cause unwanted…
July 31, 2009
Address Operating Inefficiencies - BuildingsAutomation.com Interview With CEO David Wolins
Recommissioning every few years or on an ad hoc basis is not the answer. Facilities managers need an Automated Continuous Commissioning solution that persistently and automatically predicts, detects, diagnoses and prioritizes system faults and anomalies that are constantly present in…
July 21, 2009
Breaking Down the Tower of Babel
Scientific Conservation Inc.'s SCIWatch software not only integrates across platforms, but it heuristically analyzes the information it receives and gives operators essentially continuous commissioning feedback on the building, which enables them to identify, track and fix problems, often even before…
July 01, 2009
SCIWatch Brings Energy Efficiency to Building Automation
Software as a service has become increasingly popular in the energy world, with startups like Planet Metrics and Hara popping up to help companies cut carbon emissions. The newest contender is Scientific Conservation, a startup that wants to bring SaaS…
July 01, 2009
Scientific Conservation Launches Breakthrough Continuous Commissioning Energy Efficiency Solution
June 29, 2009
Scientific Conservation Brings a New Dimension to Energy Efficiency in Buildings
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Berkeley firm Scientific Conservation Inc. goes to market today with its SCIwatch software-as-a-service solution -- a first in Automated Continuous Commissioning that its creators say enables building owners and operators to cut as much as 25 percent…
June 29, 2009
Scientific Conservation Launches, Brings Predictive Analytics to Buildings
Selling software as a service through the web has helped make software more affordable and distribution more efficient. Now a startup called Scientific Conservation, which officially launched today after several years in relative stealth mode, wants to bring the software-as-a-service…
June 29, 2009
New Technology Tackles Energy Drift
Scientific Conservation's new SCIwatch software can reduce energy spending by 25% by constantly monitoring and adjusting building systems.
June 29, 2009
Software Aims to Optimize Buildings' Energy Performance
Scientific Conservation this week launched a software-as-a-service program to help building owners cut their annual energy spending by up to 25%. The SCIwatch solution addresses a problem called energy drift and gathers information from a building's energy management system to…
June 29, 2009
Scientific Conservation Launches Breakthrough Continuous Commissioning Energy Efficiency Solution
Scientific Conservation Inc., (SCI), a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions for the $4.5 billion commercial building market, today announced the launch of SCIwatch,™ a breakthrough Automated Continuous Commissioning (ACC) software platform that enables commercial building owners and facility operators…
June 29, 2009
Making Building Automation Brainier
Scientific Conservation says its software can boost the energy savings of a typical building automation system by 25 percent. Making buildings more energy efficient is a focus for many,including Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
June 29, 2009
Scientific Conservation Launches, Brings Predictive Analytics to Buildings
Selling software as a service through the web has helped make software more affordable and distribution more efficient. Now a startup called Scientific Conservation, which officially launched today after several years in relative stealth mode, wants to bring the software-as-a-service…
June 08, 2009
A Green Building Market Overview
If you want to get a sense of the scale of the opportunity in green building, look around...
May 04, 2009
Making sure green buildings don’t fade to gray
Our own David Wolins was invited to be a guest columnist for VentureBeat. In his article, he examines the issue of “energy drift” - a little-known problem with major ramifications for the utility and construction industries.
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