Case studies

Problems we've found and fixed.

Real buildings, real symptoms, and what was actually behind them. Each case walks through what the owner saw, what the building automation system showed, what was really happening, and how it was corrected.

Building pressureControlsElevators

A relief fan that never stopped →

Elevator doors dragging, faulting and trapping people. The cause was two exhaust fans pulling the building negative — one running nonstop at full speed, one the controls didn't know existed.

4-story office · Portland area · 2026

More on the way

We add a case each time we close one out. Buildings are kept anonymous; the numbers come from the field.

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