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18 min read

7 Ways to Avoid Non-Billable Warranty Calls

By Phil Zito on Mar 9, 2023 5:00:00 AM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here, and welcome back. In this post, we are going to be discussing seven ways to avoid non-billable warranty calls. So, every year, at the beginning of fall, we see the same thing happen. The warranty calls start to come in.

Topics: Building Automation System building automation smartbuildings closeout warranty training
14 min read

BAS Installation Tips and Tricks

By Phil Zito on Mar 7, 2023 5:00:00 AM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here and welcome back. Today, we're going to be talking about installation. We've had a lot of questions come in lately about how to be effective at building automation installation. So, we're going to be talking about several tips that I have picked up over my career that have come to really help with building automation installation, and I hope that you're able to take some value from these.

Topics: Building Automation System building automation smartbuildings documents installation safety efficiency
13 min read

How to Engage Owners in Using Their Building Automation System

By Phil Zito on Mar 2, 2023 5:00:00 AM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here, and welcome back. In this post, we are going to be covering how to engage owners in using their building automation systems. So, recently I put a question on LinkedIn, Facebook, and a couple other places, and I was asking, “What would you like to know about building automation?” One of the responses I got was, “Hey, how can we engage our owners in actually using building automation systems?”

Topics: Building Automation System building automation smartbuildings BAS Training owners upsell
14 min read

How to Organize Your Team to Scale Your Revenue

By Phil Zito on Feb 28, 2023 5:00:00 AM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here and welcome back. In this post, we are going to be tackling the topic of how to organize your team to scale your revenue.

Topics: Building Automation System building automation smartbuildings team revenue
29 min read

How to Read Plans and Specs

By Phil Zito on Dec 22, 2022 5:00:00 AM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here and welcome back. In this post, we are going to be diving into plan and spec documents. We're going to cover how to review them. What do we look for? What are the different parts and pieces of them? How are they structured? So, we're gonna have some fun.

Topics: Building Automation System building automation plans and specs smartbuildings Career
11 min read

How to Systemize Your BAS Career

By Phil Zito on Dec 20, 2022 5:00:00 AM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here and welcome back. In this post, we're going to be talking about how to systemize your building automation career.

Topics: Building Automation System building automation smartbuildings Career programmer BAS technician
14 min read

Overcoming Inflation with Processes

By Phil Zito on Dec 15, 2022 2:00:00 PM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here and welcome back. In this post, we're going to be continuing on from our previous post where we started to dive into the topic of standards for building automation companies, and we discussed processes. Now we're going to be looking at how we go about actually creating the processes that support the standard.

Topics: Building Automation System building automation Sales smartbuildings business bas projects profit standards processes procedures inflation
14 min read

Establishing a Controls Standard for Your Business

By Phil Zito on Nov 23, 2022 5:00:00 AM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here and welcome back. In this post, we are going to be covering what a building automation standard is and why you should be using one in your contracting or system integrator business.

Topics: Building Automation System building automation Sales smartbuildings business bas projects profit standards processes procedures
14 min read

Growing Your Controls Business in a Recession

By Phil Zito on Nov 18, 2022 5:00:00 AM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here and welcome back. In this post, we are going to be talking about how to grow your controls business during a recession. So, two quarters negative GDP growth, we're in a recession, stuff is trending downwards, energy's going up, supplies are hard to get. How do we continue to grow our controls business in this unique environment? Well, that is what we're going to unpack.

Topics: Building Automation System building automation Sales smartbuildings business bas projects profit
24 min read

How to Manage BAS Projects From Start to Finish

By Phil Zito on Nov 16, 2022 5:00:00 AM

Hey folks, Phil Zito here and welcome back. In this post, we are going to be discussing BAS project management. We're going to go from start to finish with BAS project management:

  • How we initiate a BAS project
  • How we handle a BAS project through the design phase
  • How we handle it through the implementation phase
  • How we handle it through the closing phase
Topics: Building Automation System building automation smartbuildings Design bas projects implementation project management closing