oh hi can you hear me
hi Deborah it's Erica so as you know
we're doing a school project creating an
app that tells temperature directly from
your phone but in doing so we need we
are researching just how temperature
gets controlled in large buildings we
are interested in hearing your
perspective as a facilities manager
someone who may have maybe in the front
line and getting like building
complaints on temperature or dealing
with employees so the first question is
could you tell us a little bit about the
current measurement and management of
temperature at constant contact when
when there is a temperature complaint we
we will call the building building
engineers will come up take a look at
adjusting temperature and make sure that
the thermostat is correctly calibrated
to keep it to that point but for
starters we were wondering what's the
process at iLab for HVAC management how
do you guys actually control your air
conditioning do you keep it set at one
low don't we don't we don't control the
diagnose we run into problems generally
is in the transition seasons so spring
and fall you know it could be cold at
night and then warm up during the day or
vice versa and the systems struggle to
maintain the right temperature one when
you're in the transition speed I would
never actually I hadn't heard that any
other interviews yet so that's actually
pretty cool yeah so are kind of
automated here it's kind of automated
and there really isn't actually too much
that I can do do you think there's
anything other than a system itself or
is it maybe the people themselves
weren't prepared for those kind of days
the systems I thought if you if you have
a if you happen to have a really hot
weekend and
energy conservation reasons you know the
system shut down for the long weekend
and you show up on Monday morning
there's a good chance that the building
is not going to regions optimal
temperature until about 1:00 a.m. or
what PMS you think I like the process
itself is that much of a problem
I think the process of fire just seems
like every time we say we're too hot or
too cold hmm
that this feedback that I get is if
someone comes down here it goes well we
just started off it feels I mean it's
not it just takes a long time to control
that engineers take care of yeah so the
the building has a automatic monitoring
system where they can go in and adjust
all over the building or is it like some
pockets of it start off or they I think
it's all over the building
what what would you do to improve how
comfortable an individual would be like
what is there to be done um again I
think the best thing we can do is design
systems that put the right amount of
airflow at the right temperature over
the biggest areas well those are all of
our questions do you have any questions
as we wrap up no okay awesome well thank
you so much for taking time out sweet
okay yeah I'll show you an email thank
you so much excellent