High-performance Buildings Need a BAS: Comfort-based data collection is necessary to achieve optimal facility management.

The article discusses the role of building automation systems (BAS) in monitoring optimal facilities including energy, water, and other resources in high-performance buildings. Topics discussed include need to accurately model, benchmark, and monitor the building performance for healthy and productive work spaces; views of professor, James Freihaut of Pennsylvania State University on the same; and significance of automation system in reducing the pitfalls of manual operation.