PointGuard Introduces Project Manager and Audit Manager: New Tools for Smarter Building Performance
PointGuard is expanding its building performance platform with two new tools designed to help facility teams better manage capital improvements, energy projects, audits, and the information needed to measure long-term building performance: Project Manager and Audit Manager.
Both tools bring project and document management directly into the PointGuard portal, connecting information that is often spread across emails, spreadsheets, shared drives, and standalone management systems with the building performance data facility teams already use.
Project Manager: From Capital Planning to Measured Performance Building upgrades rarely begin and end with installation. A project may move through budgeting, internal approval, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, and performance verification—and facility teams need visibility throughout that entire process.
PointGuard Project Manager provides a centralized place to manage that lifecycle while keeping the project connected to the building's actual energy and performance data.
Facility teams can use Project Manager to track improvements such as new HVAC equipment, window replacements, ductwork upgrades, controls improvements, and other capital expenditures from initial budgeting and approval through installation and commissioning.
What makes Project Manager different from a traditional project management system is what happens after the work is finished.
Once a project is completed, PointGuard can establish a new energy-use baseline, allowing the facility team to compare performance before and after the improvement. Instead of treating project completion as the finish line, teams can continue monitoring the building to determine how energy consumption has changed and whether the capital investment is producing the intended results.
This creates a more complete process: Budget → Approve → Implement → Commission → Baseline → Measure
By bringing project management and building performance together, Project Manager helps owners move beyond simply documenting what they spent. It provides a framework for understanding what changed and whether the investment delivered value.
Audit Manager: Keep Building Performance Knowledge in One Place
Energy audits and other building performance assessments can contain valuable information about a facility, but those reports are often difficult to locate years after they are completed. As personnel change and buildings undergo improvements, historical recommendations, reports, supporting documentation, and previous findings can become disconnected from current operations.
PointGuard Audit Manager gives facility teams a centralized location within the PointGuard portal to organize and retain documents associated with energy audits and other building performance audits.
Rather than allowing an audit to become a static report that is filed away after completion, Audit Manager creates a lasting record that can be referenced when planning future improvements or evaluating how a building has changed over time.
Teams can maintain historical audit information for future reference, comparison, and decision-making, making it easier to connect previous recommendations with current building conditions and performance initiatives.
Connecting Projects, Audits and Building Performance Project Manager and Audit Manager represent the next step in PointGuard's approach to building analytics: giving facility teams tools not only to understand what their buildings are doing today, but also to preserve the history behind why performance changed. An energy audit may identify an opportunity. A capital project may address it. Commissioning may confirm that the new system is operating correctly. PointGuard can then help establish the new baseline and provide the ongoing performance information needed to evaluate the results.
Together, the new tools help create a more complete record of the building—from the original audit and investment decision through implementation and ongoing performance. For facility teams, that means fewer disconnected systems and a clearer connection between capital spending, operational decisions, energy consumption, and building performance.
PointGuard has always been built around a simple idea: data should turn a wrench. Project Manager and Audit Manager extend that philosophy by connecting the documents, decisions, projects, and investments behind a building directly to its performance data.
With these new tools, PointGuard is helping facility teams move from simply identifying opportunities to managing improvements, documenting institutional knowledge, and ultimately demonstrating the impact of their investments.
