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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