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HVAC Auditing & Commissioning
Measuring performance, identifying drift, and balancing.
10 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead · Last reviewed July 2026
When you walk into a building and want to audit the HVAC system, what do you look for? Here's a practical checklist: the essentials you can assess without specialized equipment.
In this lesson
- 01Basic inspection: the system type
- 02The checklist: component by component
- 03Operational clues: spotting inefficiency
- 04Quick efficiency scoring
- 05Data collection for deeper audit
- 06Sources and further reading