BOMI SMA case studies
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The SMA® - Systems Maintenance Administrator - is one of the five designations BOMI (BOMA International's education arm) offers for commercial real estate professionals, and it sits on the building-engineering side of that catalog: the source lists it alongside the Systems Maintenance Technician (SMT®), Real Property Administrator (RPA®), Facilities Management Administrator (FMA®), and BOMI-HP® designations. It is aimed at people with property, facilities, and building engineer responsibilities who want a recognized mark of distinction for the technical and administrative side of running building systems. The BOMI SMA case studies are 5 cases and about 3,281 words.
1Rooftop Unit Short-Cycling After a Controls Retrofit
A 14-year-old, 60,000 sq ft office building replaced its pneumatic VAV controls with a DDC system over a three-week shutdown. Six weeks later, the property manager reports that the two 90-ton rooftop packaged units serving the east and west zones now short-cycle: compressors run about four to six minutes, then lock out on low-pressure for roughly eight minutes before restarting.
651 words, about 3 min2Deferred Boiler Tube Failure in a Winter Peak
A 180,000 sq ft mixed-use building relies on two 500 HP fire-tube boilers for hydronic heat and domestic hot water. In late November, boiler #1 develops a tube leak; the maintenance supervisor isolates it and runs #2 alone.
634 words, about 3 min3Retro-Commissioning a Building With a Stuck Economizer
A 95,000 sq ft distribution center is pursuing an energy performance target after a utility audit showed an energy use intensity of 78 kBtu/sq ft, about 22 percent above a peer benchmark. The audit identified three measures: an economizer repair on four rooftop units, LED retrofits in the warehouse, and a rooftop PV array.
652 words, about 3 min4Choosing a CMMS Work-Order Discipline Under Staffing Pressure
A property management firm operates six office buildings totaling 720,000 sq ft with a maintenance staff of nine technicians and one supervisor. The firm has used a CMMS for two years, but adoption is poor: roughly 40 percent of work is logged, most reactive calls are handled by phone or radio and never entered, and preventive maintenance completion runs about 55 percent.
695 words, about 3 min5Asbestos-Containing Pipe Insulation Discovered Mid-Repair
During a scheduled repair of a leaking domestic water riser in a 1970s-era, 12-story office building, a contractor's crew cuts into pipe insulation in a first-floor mechanical closet and stops work when the material appears fibrous and friable. The building has an asbestos survey from 2004 that classified the closet insulation as non-friable and presumed intact, with a note to re-inspect if disturbed.
649 words, about 3 min