A Guide To BMS Maintenance

What Is A BMS System? 

In addition to maintaining your BMS, you should also maintain the plants and equipment it controls. Typically, BMS maintenance is carried out in a reactive fashion – energy consumption is not monitored, comfort conditions can deteriorate, and problems are not addressed until they become serious. Systems include electrical, HVAC, plumbing, energy and lighting.

This guide details the issues involved in BMS maintenance and provides specification clauses to assist the procurement of a BMS maintenance service. 

In this guide, we describe the maintenance issues associated with BMSs and provide specification clauses to assist in the selection of BMS maintenance services. Facility managers and other people in charge of procuring BMS maintenance support services, including nontechnical personnel in charge of authorising maintenance contracts, will find this guide useful.

Why Is A BMS Maintenance Required? 

It is important to invest in the electrical and mechanical capabilities of a building in order to minimise downtime and, more importantly, to maintain optimum functionality of the facility at all times. Maintaining, monitoring, and regularly servicing your building management system will result in increased efficiency, reliability, and most importantly minimize building costs and energy usage. Due to this fact, you can expect your BMS system to provide dependable service for years to come, as well as an energy-efficient outcome and reduced cost output.   

• An internal environment that is comfortable and conducive to learning

• The ability to respond quickly and accurately to the needs of occupants

• A more accurate and detailed management reporting process based on accurate historical records

• Optimising plant efficiency, reducing unnecessary energy use, raising standard of operation and maintenance, providing data for effective monitoring and targeting, and to be able to identify other cost-saving measures, as well as a faster detection of faulty and wasteful processes may lead to decreased energy costs.

• Assurance that the system is functioning correctly

• Continually increasing return on investment    

What are the Benefits of BMS Maintenance?

A BMS must be regularly maintained and tested in order to continue to meet specified environmental conditions and energy efficiency requirements. Additionally, the BMS is an important asset in its own right. A lack of maintenance can diminish the value of this asset.

Improved occupant productivity is one of the major benefits of BMS maintenance. Temperature and pressure loop tunings, sensor calibrations, and setpoints should be regularly maintained in order to ensure that the internal environment does not deteriorate, which negatively affects worker performance.

Other benefits include: 

Provide protection for property and engineering services

• Provide protection for property and engineering services
• Improve utilization and reduce unavailability times
• Ascertain that all safety standards are met
• Make sure that occupants are comfortable by ensuring availability.