CopperTree Analytics featured in PCL’s latest insight on building intelligence and continuous performance
CopperTree Analytics is proud to be featured in a new insight from PCL Construction exploring how building intelligence can help owners maintain and improve building performance long after construction is complete.
The article, “Performance as Promised: How PCL Elevates Building Intelligence,” examines the growing role of data, analytics, and connected building systems in helping facility teams understand how their buildings are performing in real-world conditions.
A key focus of the article is the role of CopperTree Analytics’ Kaizen platform in helping building teams move beyond traditional building automation and gain greater visibility into operational performance.
From Building Handover to Ongoing Performance
A building’s performance doesn’t end when construction is complete.
Once a building is occupied, operating conditions change. Equipment performance evolves, schedules are adjusted, controls are modified, and building systems can gradually drift away from their intended operation.
PCL’s article highlights this challenge and explores how continuous building intelligence can help identify these issues and maintain performance over time.
Through its work with CopperTree Analytics, PCL demonstrates how building analytics can provide facility teams with an ongoing view of building performance rather than relying solely on periodic testing, inspections, or reactive maintenance.
Turning Building Data Into Action
CopperTree’s Kaizen platform uses building data to help identify operational issues and opportunities across HVAC and building systems.
With Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD), facility teams can identify conditions that may otherwise remain hidden, including:
- Simultaneous heating and cooling
- Equipment operating outside scheduled hours
- Control sequence issues
- Setpoint problems
- Abnormal equipment behavior
- Other operational inefficiencies
Instead of simply collecting more building data, analytics helps transform that information into insights that facility teams can investigate and act upon.
Supporting Performance Beyond Construction
One of the key themes highlighted by PCL is the importance of maintaining building performance beyond the point of handover.
A building can be designed and commissioned to perform according to its intended requirements, but real-world operation can change over time.
Continuous analytics provides a way to monitor that performance and identify when systems begin to operate differently than expected.
This creates a more continuous performance cycle:
Commission → Monitor → Detect → Diagnose → Act → Verify
The result is a shift from treating commissioning as a one-time event toward viewing building performance as an ongoing process.
Building Intelligence at Altru Hospital
PCL’s article also highlights the application of CopperTree analytics at Altru Hospital, demonstrating how building intelligence can be incorporated into a project before substantial completion and continue supporting operations after handover.
This approach provides an important opportunity to establish a performance baseline early and continue monitoring the building as it transitions into ongoing operations.
For building owners and facility teams, that continuity can help preserve operational knowledge and provide greater visibility into how building systems perform over time.
A More Connected Approach to Building Performance
The collaboration between PCL and CopperTree reflects a broader shift in the building industry.
Construction, commissioning, controls, facility management, and building analytics have traditionally operated as separate disciplines.
Connected building intelligence creates an opportunity to bring these functions closer together.
By combining project expertise with continuous analytics, organizations can create a clearer connection between:
Design Intent → Construction → Commissioning → Operations → Continuous Performance
This can help building owners get more value from their facilities throughout their operational lifecycle.
Why Continuous Building Analytics Matters
For building owners and facility teams, the value of analytics extends beyond identifying individual HVAC problems.
Continuous building intelligence can help organizations:
- Improve operational visibility
- Identify hidden HVAC faults
- Reduce energy waste
- Support proactive maintenance
- Verify building performance
- Preserve operational knowledge
- Prioritize facility resources
- Improve long-term building performance
As buildings become increasingly connected and data-driven, the ability to continuously interpret that information will become an increasingly important part of effective facility management.
Read the Full PCL Feature
We’re proud to be recognized by PCL for our work helping organizations turn building data into actionable intelligence.
Read the full article, “Performance as Promised: How PCL Elevates Building Intelligence,” to learn more about how PCL is using building intelligence and CopperTree Analytics to support performance beyond construction.
Read “Performance as Promised: How PCL Elevates Building Intelligence”