HOOVER CITY SCHOOLS

How building automation systems drive cost efficiency Wes continues to apply lessons from his facilities management background to the district’ s approach to building automation. Integrating building systems with network infrastructure creates opportunities for operational improvements and cost reduction.

“ Building automation has become a major part of how we think about smart infrastructure. From my operation days, it allowed us to keep lean staffing with better tools, so that they could respond to multiple problems from one location and would be able to get a heads-up on something that’ s going wrong in the environment, a lot of times before the people in a classroom or in a facility even know that they have a problem,” Wes says.

The integration of IT and facilities management systems enables predictive maintenance and faster response times. By connecting environmental controls, security systems and network infrastructure, Wes and his team can identify issues before they impact teaching and learning.

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