New Buildings Institue, Cathy Higgins ~ Presenter

Deep Savings Webinar 6/30/2011Photo credit C. Higgins

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C. Higgins Photo Credit

Deep Savings Webinar 6/30/2011

AgendaTopic Who Minutes

Welcome & Overview Cathy Higgins 15

Work and Project Stories

DOE National Renewable Energy Lab

Shanti Pless 20

New Buildings Institute Cathy Higgins 20

Rocky Mountain Institute Mike Bendewald & Victor Olgyay

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Closing and Q & A All 15

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Review Meeting Process and Q&A


Overview

The Market

Measurement


The Market -

policies, priorities & trends


Drivers

EISA 2007

California Zero Net Energy Action Plan

Outcome-based Codes

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Code Progress - Outcome-based Codes, Performance Approach for Building Energy Use Energy Independence & Security Act All New commercial buildings by 2030; Fifty percent of all commercial building stock by 2040; and All commercial buildings by 2050. All new commercial construction in California will be zero net energy by 2030 and 50% of existing buildings 2030 Challenge as the full support of the 80,000 AIA members, the Council of Mayors, and literally hundreds of organizations and Leading Firms CBC – represents leaders forming the recommendations and technical approaches on behalf of DOE to create the pathway to the low-energy future needed to address the major carbon and climate issues of our time. Market uptake of EnergyStar, LEED, USGBC and the Living Building Challenge through the Int. Living Future Institute and Cascadia GB Council is dramatic. It is really a watershed time of moving to buildings that reflect this millenium’s abilities and interests in improved technology and designs – and occupant comfort – in the built environment. The amount of energy provided by on-site renewable energy sources is equal to the amount of energy used by the building. · A ZNE building may also consider embodied energy – the quantity of energy required to manufacture and supply to the point of use, the materials utilized for its building.

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Ratings & Labels

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One of the most important market and regulator trends is the increase in ratings and labeling. Driven first by green building labels such as LEED and Energy Star, but followed now by disclosure ordinances that are adopted or pending in over a dozen localities. Energy Star Score ASHRAE Building EQ (Energy Quotient) Label – pilot underway – Durst, BNIM zEPI (based on Charles Eley’s Beyond Percent Savings) New CA Building Energy Asset Rating System (BEARS) Also mention the 2030 Challenge Another area where policies and requirements help move design practices is with labeling of buildings. The two powerhouse labels in the market are LEED and Energy Star but I want to mention that there are several trends that go further to influence actual energy performance. This is the inclusion of an as-designed label and an as-operated label in the regulatory and the market vernacular. Energy Star is an operational label and USGBC added a requirement for post-occupancy energy information to their new construction program and requires a Energy Star rating for their existing building program. CA is developing BEARS and there is a wide recognition that we have to move “beyond percent savings” to a scale aligned with Net Zero Energy policies. All of these provide the design team both opportunity and accountability.


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For Example – map from International Inst. For MT These Disclousre requirements rely primarily on whole building annual energy data and in most cases the representation of that data through the Energy Star Portfolio Manager benchmarking tool. In a recent meeting with a group of A&E firms they identified this trend as being one of the largest shifts in attention to energy use by their clients they have seen – thus it is facilitating their proposals to go deeper in the recommended energy improvements.


Plug Loads Now becoming 30-60% of high performance buildings energy use

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NBI and ECOS recently completed research through the CA PIER program that showed a potential to reduce the office equipment energy use through low-to-no cost improvements to existing equipment by 15-40%, much more at the time of replacement. You CAN’T address deep energy savings without approaching the behavorial and power mgmt. Aspects of Plug Loads.


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This is the full square feet of ALL U.S. Buildings. Commercial SF is ~ 30% of this stock but the points and potential remain the same. These slides, from our friends at SERA Architects, provide a representation of the state of the building stock from now to the year 2030




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Leaving a potential for 75% of the buildings to be renovated – an optimum time for EE improvements This represents 70% of the total bldgs in place today will need to be upgraded by 2030.


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Commercial is 30% of the stock We address NC with codes, major renovations can also trigger code but we must involve more of the market and more of the measures – regulated and unregulated – to really deeply changing America’s building stock to be very low-energy on the way to NZE.


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U.S. Commercial Non-Mall Buildings by Size

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½ Fewer players at the large scale but more sophisticated and attractive to contractors Must address the small segment to truly engage the market and make change


Amount of U.S. Commercial Floor Space by Building Type


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Warehouse sf is very large but has much less energy savings potential


Total Commercial Energy Use by Building Type

Office24%

Education18%

Health Care13%

Lodging11%

Warehouse10%

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RMI Deep Retrofit Needs Assessment1. Financing: none available

2. Risk/litigation: never done it before; don’t want to reduce installed cooling capacity, don’t want to force on tenants, etc.

3. Business case: rapid building turnover; more compelling alternative investments, etc. Value of energy efficiency

4. First cost: cost of technologies and of services, etc.

5. Split incentives: tenant/landlord; costs of sub-metering, etc.

6. Retrofit process: time-consuming phases; non-standardized analysis/audit procedures; difficult to engage all stakeholders

7. Design: few capable engineers; cream-skimming habits; no incentives to maximize savings, etc.

8. Awareness and demand: uncertain tenant demand for energy efficiency, etc.

17Source: RMI’s Industry Needs Assessment, Pike’s Research, Q3 2010

Bold = Areas helped through Case Studies

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Survey of owners and property managers, decision makers. Barriers and some of the barriers that can be addressed with Case Studies Confidence – Champion mentality


Labels and Ratings Matter

CHANGING MOTIVES FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY:Cost, incentives, public image top the list

Source: Johnson Controls Inc., Energy Efficiency Indicator 2011 Global Results

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Fifth annual survey led by the Institute for Building Efficiency, an initiative of Johnson Controls providing information and analysis of technologies, policies, and practices for efficient, high performance buildings and smart energy systems around the world.


Advancing technologies change opportunities

U.S. respondents say smart building and lighting technology will see greatest increase in market adoption in next decade.

Those who have implemented smart grid/building technology are 2.5 times more likely to review data frequently

Source: Johnson Controls Inc., Energy Efficiency Indicator 2011 Global Results

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Draw your attention to the differences in priorities for different size buildings, in part due to the type of systems found in these buildings. And the growth in Behavioral approaches, Controls and Smart Building Technologies. �Very promising trends Controls and Smart Grid, metering, DSM


Business Rationale

• First mover benefit• Early Absorption• Differentiation• Biz Operations

– Operating Costs: Genzyme -42%– Productivity: up to 15%

improvement– Absenteeism: Toyota -14%– Turnover: PNC -50%

• Capture Incentives

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Source: www.greenbuildingservices.com

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Lastly on the market aspects, From Ralph DiNola & Elaine Aye at GBS from research they’ve gathered, a few of the business reasons for commercial owners. Non- image slide. The grass and leaf are images that will rest at the top next to the bar. These can be copied and pasted into new slides, or these can be removed. This allows the user flexibility to have different variety with slides.


Measurement

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Necessary to provide a foundation to the panelist discussion on energy savings and metrics


What about data?

• ~ 5 million commercial buildings nationwide

• 100,000 using Energy Star Portfolio Manager

• 10,000 Energy Star Labeled, 10,000 LEED buildings, DOE’s High Performance Database, Better Bricks Database, AIA COTE Awards , NBI’s GT50 data, utility programs – est. 25,000 +/-

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100 thousand using Portfolio Manager

25 thousand E.S./LEED labeled etc. High Performance Buildings

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High attention and involvement in Estar represents 100,000 buildings and hundreds of the national leading CRE firms and owners. If you round up all the green and energy efficiency programs – to the extent that data is attainable – you might have 25,000 buildings This represents ~<0.5% of commercial buildings with publicly available measured performance data With EPA it is still less than 5% of commercial buildings. Let’s say that, like the qty versus sf slide, these represent big bldgs (which they do on average) and that the sf to size ratio is 10 fold (5% of the bldgs are >50k sf but they represent half the sf) so by sf there “Might be” Up to 30-50% of commercial sf is active in high performance, especially due to the leading CRE firms involved in Estar Certification


Where’s the recent data?4.8 million commercial buildings nationwide

122 in NBI’s 2008 LEED study - Constructed after 2000Energy measured 2006 – 2007

2,790 in CEUS 2006 database

5,200 observations in the 2003 CBECS databaseOnly 410 for 2000-2003 construction - Energy Measured in 2003

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The National Institute for Building Science (NIBS), along with ASHRAE and AIA plus partners, are leading a national public effort to address the data collection gap.July 18th forum.

• CBECS 2007 delayed significantly and then discarded due to statistical problems• CBECS 2011 is being discarded due to EIA Lower FY 2011 funding levels.• CBECS 2012 is the next planned survey… release date will be…TBD

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The panelist today asked that I reference the state of the Comm. Bldg Energy Consumption Survey A highly valuable and necessary piece for the benchmarking of buildings but currently in a state of limbo regarding it’s future. NIBS


Compared to What?

Lower your expectations…Zero Net Energy (ZNE)

Best practiceexisting building (ZNE…)

Portfolio Mgr. EUI

Nat. avg. Office EUI (CBECS)

Case Study: The Beardmore EUI

Better

Energy Information Administration Commercial Building End-Use Consumption Survey (CBECS) 2003.Energy Star Portfolio Manager calculates an EUI for a building based on like building types, climate, size, occupancy and loads

zEPI - Based on AEC / Charles Eley’s Beyond Percent Savings

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In order to measure change or progress (change may not always be toward progress) you have to measure against something else. Let’s get some common vocabulary for today’s webinar. Measuring. CBECS – can’t track progress, not that we can’t MAKE progress. Market is most interested in pre and post Typical commercial buildings use, on average, twice the energy of efficient buildings and three to four times that of the nation’s highest performing buildings. ZNE Equivalent


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"The Barn" Certified Silver Gold Platinum

NBI Study of the measured performance of 100 LEED buildings.

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Design teams could begin to have a portfolio of performance information. Substantive complexities in the interpretation of the reasons for variations in performance – but the most common, after normalizing for building type and climate, being occupancy density and duration, equipment selection. The psychology of comparative tendency is very powerful and people want know where is my building on this line.


NREL – Shanti Pless

Separate presentation available

New Buildings Institute

Deep Savings in Existing BuildingsWebinar June 30, 2011

Cathy HigginsProgram Director

[email protected]

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Pic is: Desert Living Center in Las Vegas. This is one of the LEED Platinum buildings on the site that Mark Frankel worked on as a sustainability consultant.


NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE

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Founded in 1998 to make building better for people and the environment and to serve as a thought leader and developer of the next generation of best practices in efficiency for commercial buildings. Non-profit – always working in partnerships to accomplish a wide range of activities and outcomes


Current Work


NBI Current Related Work

1. First View

2. Office of the Future Consortium

3. PIER – Evidence-based Design and Operations

4. Measured Performance and Getting to 50

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Nbi specialty is MP, learning from HP and poor perf, informing DOTs and Policy Photo of Hood River Library renovation of an historic library building adding the skylights and natural ventilation


USGBC Building Performance Reportthru NBI’s First View

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USGBC Building Performance Partnership (BPP)


2) Office of the Future (OTF) Consortium

Managed by:

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A group of utilities with progressive energy efficiency programs that are working together to improve the quality and energy performance of the built environment in existing, multi-tenant commercial offices.

Multi-measure, plug loads, metering


3) Evidence-based Design & Operations

• Document performance of a set of California high performance buildings

• Identify critical performance indicators

• Develop communication packages for designers, owners, and operators, explaining their roles in performance.

• 22 buildings energy performance assessed through First View and interviews

• 12 of those buildings through site visits and interviews


4) Measured Performance and Getting to 50

• GT50 High Performance Buildings Portal

• Case Studies

• Research Studies


Measured Performance & Case Studies


Getting to 50

Deep Savings Webinar 6/30/2011www.algonline.org *subscription-based content

Daylighting Case Studies*

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Measured Performance

Case Studies


AVENTINE – GLENBOROUGH | La Jolla, CA

• Multi-Tenant Office

• 10-Story, 210,000 sf

• Constructed in 1989

• 2008 –2010 Retrofits:

• All electric, no gas, extensive HVAC, lighting & cool roof retrofits

• EUI: 37 kBtu/sf/yr

• Energy Star Rating: 100

• Owner: Glenborough, LLC

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Was this a change of use?


JBDG Office Building | Seattle, WA

• Owner occupied Office

• 2-Story, 8,000 sf


• Retrofit Ongoing



• EPA Small Business Innovation Award

• Owner: JBGD, Inc,

Credit: Steve Allwine

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Efficiency Measures

• High-efficiency HVAC heat pump

• Heat recovery

• Sealed and caulked existing windows

• Lighting upgrade to T5 fixtures

• Daylighting controls

• Occupancy sensors

• Energy management monitoring system


Best practiceexisting building

Portfolio Mgr. EUI

Nat. avg. EUI

JBDG EUI

Pre-retrofitEUI


Business Context• Total project cost: $31/

sq ft• Focused on upgrades

with a payback of 5-6 years

• Reduced annual operating costs by $3,840

• Demonstrate energy efficiency design strategies for clients

Credit: Steve Allwine



The Beardmore Building | Priest River, ID


• 2-Story, 28,800 sf


• Retrofit 2006 – 2008



• LEED Gold and National Historic Registry

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“sparked new economic life into the community, giving it a renewed sense of pride and entrepreneurial spirit. “ Brian Runberg, Owner

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What


Case StudyThe Beardmore Building | Priest River, ID


Portfolio Mgr. EUI*

Nat. avg. Office EUI (CBECS)

Beardmore EUI

*Energy Star Portfolio Manager calculates an EUI for a building based on like building types, climate, size, occupancy and loads

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How


BUSINESS CONTEXT

• Complete rebuild $105/sf*

• ~ $25,000 yr. energy savings

• Applied cost/benefit analysis to energy measures

• Rents average ~ 35% higher than other local properties.

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“The initial investment has proven itself to be financially prudent, with substantially lower

operation costs, greater lasting quality, and a healthy environment for its users. Equally

important is the preservation of an important historic landmark...”

Brian Runberg, Owner

*after tax credits and incentives

The Beardmore Building | Priest River, ID

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Why


The Vance Building | Seattle, WA


• 14-Story, 134,000 sf


• Retrofit 2007



• LEED EB Gold and AIA Seattle 2009 Top 10 Awards

• Owner: Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund

Credit: William Wright Photography

“In ten years every building will either be a Brown building or a Green Building.”

Jonathan Rose, March 2011

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Portfolio Mgr. EUI

Nat. avg. EUI

Vance EUI

Efficiency Measures• Removed ducted

heating systems• Recalibrated steam

heating system• Localized thermostats• Operable windows• Automated

sunshades• Lighting retrofit with

automated controls• Light shelves• CO2 sensors• Re-commissioning

Pre-retrofitEUI



Business Context

• Building occupied during renovation

• Improvement cost: $26/sq ft

• Increased occupancy by 26% since renovation

• Created TI guidelines for tenant retrofits to guide design decisions for daylighting, ventilation, and finishes.

Credit: Lara Swimmer

“Vance’s original, historic design attributes, such as terrazzo floors, high ceilings, operable windows and floor plans designed to maximize natural light, not only have great character but also have inherent environmentally sensitive qualities. We sought to uncover and restore these attributes while incorporating modern, energy efficient green improvements.” – Nathan Taft, Jonathan Rose Companies


• Multi-Tenant nonprofit Office

• 6-Story, 38,800 sf


• Retrofit 2006



• LEED EB Gold, LEED CI Silver, Energy Star Leader and Colorado Energy Champion Award

• Owner: Alliance for Sustainable Colorado

The Alliance Center | Denver, CO

Credit: Alliance for Sustainable Colorado

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Visioning a ZNE future Phillip Saleg


Efficiency Measures• Direct Digital HVAC Control

system• Occupancy sensors• Photocells for daylight

harvesting (fifth floor only)• High-Efficiency glazing• Commissioning• T8 fixtures with dimmable

ballasts • Commissioning• Photovoltaics• Translucent Wall Panels• Increased insulation• Sun Shades (sixth floor only)• Un-refrigerated water

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Portfolio Mgr. EUI

Nat. avg. EUI

Alliance Center EUI


Business Context• Total project cost:

$3.07/sq ft• Average annual energy

savings: $8,800 • 35 tenants focused on

advancing sustainability • Serves as a public

demonstration project for advanced design strategies


Credit: Slaterpaull Architects


Glumac Engineering

• First OTF/AEO pilot submitting data on installed energy performance

• Irvine, CA

• 8,328 SF

• 35 employees

• SCE Utility

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Office of the Future

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Strategize with Amy how we best present case studies I tried to consolidate but then too much text and not enough story telling which will keep conference call participants engaged


Glumac

• Irvine, CA• 8,762 SF • Tenant Improvement • Open office• Private offices• Conference room• Kitchen & lobby areas• January 2010

occupancy


Glumac Lighting Calculations

• Title 24 – 2005 Energy Calculations

• Cost - hard costs only– $9.25/SF for equipment and installation

– Does not include design

Code Allowance 9,828 W 1.18 W/SF

Connected 7,039 W 0.85 W/SF

Control Credit 5,526 W 0.66 W/SF

Operating at 0.2-0.3W/SFduring occupied hours

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Example demonstrates the gap between the control credit that the utility receives and the actual savings that are experienced in the field verification.

Deep Savings Webinar 6/30/2011ACEEE Summer Study August 2010 Science & Engineering I – 236,989 gsfClassroom and Office – 103,006 gsf

UC Merced – GT 50 Case Study of M.P.

Campus Plant

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Case Studies of C&O and S&E I (Laboratory) Thermal Energy Storage Tank, common feature of UC Campuses eliminates 25% of peak only pencils out at campus scale


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Source: Karl Brown, CIEE and NBI GT50 Case Study

Traditional Analysis: Prescribed Schedule and Load Assumptions


• Seattle Biomedical Research Institute – 35% energy reduction - $43,400 annual savings

• Alcyone Apartments, Seattle, WA– 30% energy reduction –$80,000 annual savings

• 9th & Stewart Life Sciences Building, Seattle, WA – 27% energy reduction for core & shell – $17,650 annual

savings

• Puget Sound Energy Corporate Headquarters, Bellevue, WA– 199,431 kWh or $10,000 annual energy savings

• Gerding/Edlen Development Company, Brewery Block 4, Portland, OR– 21.5% energy savings - $58,700 annually

GBS Examples of Realized Savings

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Ralph DiNola, Elaine Aye – Client projects, very competent firm Non- image slide. The grass and leaf are images that will rest at the top next to the bar. These can be copied and pasted into new slides, or these can be removed. This allows the user flexibility to have different variety with slides.


Average Bottom Line Savings

GREEN INPROVEMENTS PAY FOR THEMSELVES IN YEARS

3(ANNUAL RETURN ON INVESTMENT IS 25-40%)

The William and Flora Hewlett FoundationMenlo Park CALEED Gold

58Source: USGBC online slides referencing a CA Study


Case Study Summaries


EXISTING BUILDINGS

EXAMPLES OF DEEP ENERGY SAVINGSNBI Research Report for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance

50 existing buildings with savings in the 30% to 80% range.12 New Case Studies this summer


• NBI Contacted 47 organization/firms

• Researched 28 leading industry websites

• Reviewed over 500 case studies

• Identified 50 Existing building projects– 45 Renovations

– 4 Equipment upgrades/retrofits/remodels

– 1 Tenant improvement

DEEP ENERGY SAVINGS IN EXISTING BUILDINGS

• Very Difficult to get data:• Energy bills• Measure Descriptions (definition barriers)• Cost Information• Occupant satisfaction


Case Study Sites

• The other 17 websites included: e-bids, e-Bids, AIA COTE – National, NEEP Schools Case Study Database, Green Star, CoStar, Green Building Assoc. of Central PA, Building Perf. Evaluation –Rutgers, City Of Portland, City of Seattle, USGBC Case Studies, NEEA/Better Bricks, Architectural Lighting, BOMA 360 Buildings, CA Green Building Directory, Wisconsin Green Building Alliance, Climate Works Foundation, Northern CA Chapter USGBC.

• Additional projects found from NBI Research Projects, A & E firms, Contractors and Utility Programs

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Out of over 500 web-based case studies reviewed only 6% (n=32) met the base criteria of an existing building retrofit since 1990 with multiple efficiency measures and baseline and energy savings (either estimated or measured) information.


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– Improving existing buildings is the best value now

– Where deepest savings are more likely to occur

– More public and ‘green firms’ continuing to renovate buildings during the economic downturn

– Larger scopes are more likely to be documented

– Single measure or ‘shallow’ retrofits are less likely to be found in a search (more contractor driven)

Why did we find mostly “Renewals”** “renewals”, “major renovations”, “whole building upgrades” all denote that the building had significant changes to the interior, structure and/or activity type in addition to efficiency measure improvements.


• Best of Best – advanced mechanical, daylighting, advanced controls, natural ventilation plus pay attention

• Worst of Best – usually no clue that building not performing, mostly operational issues, occasionally design or construction; Cx post occupancy should fix most

• Ongoing measured performance of buildings is critical– Metering and monitoring

Digging into buildings and data

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Stacey has talking points for CT


Cross-Cutting Themes

• Integrated design is more critical to the development of low/zero-energy buildings than is any given technology.

• Moving beyond design and construction into operations, plug loads, process energy and other “unregulated loads” is a critical step.

• There is need for a consistent, long-term metric to measure the performance of buildings and policy, such as the Zero Energy Performance Index (zEPI).

• More measured performance data at the case-study level, and at the system level to support owner and private financing.

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Codes and performance assurance initiatives (O&M and energy management) can get into building operations phase and unregulated loads. This is increasingly important as plug loads’ share of building energy use grows over the years and envelope, HVAC, and lighting are minimized and stabilized. zEPI – metric where 100= avg EUI in year 2000 and 0 = zero Measured performance data echoes needs voiced by technology WGs


NBI Upcoming


What about zero-net energy buildings?• About 20+ built in U.S.

• Documenting net zero capable (i.e. less than 30 kBTUs site)

• Except for NREL, mostly small

• All the basics plus very efficient HVAC, daylighting, natural ventilation, heat recovery and design

• 50+ projects under design/ construction, e.g. Living Building Challenge, Savings by Design, Energy Trust of Oregon

NBI study – to be released soon

NREL Research Support Facility (RSF)

IDEAZ Z2 | San Jose, CA


NBI Research Database• Consolidated data repository from all NBI whole-

building performance projects– Facilitates current and future research

– Supports cross-cutting analyses

– Supports peer group / benchmark determination


First View Pilot of Public User Interface

and Automated Interpretations

• Very low occupant loads

• Efficient shell and ventilation

• Low occupant loads

• Efficient shell, ventilation

• Inefficient cooling

• Heating control inefficiency

• Low occupant loads

• Inefficient shell, ventilation

• Possible solar gain influence

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Owners and Designers want to know how their projects perform compared to others.

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Your Building’s EUI

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New funding will create comparisons against like buildings. LEED chart shown here. First View can help predict why and where to go to improve. MMT can direct upgrade recommendations


Take Aways


Case Study Commonalities

• Document• Ongoing Learning• Share Stories (Self Promote)

Market Awareness

• Owners• Leaders• High Profile• Trends• Policies• Future

Proofing

Mission Driven

• Green Firms• Non-Profits• Corporate

Leaders• Passion• Fun• Visionary

Money Matters

• Assess the full Value

• Trade offs possible

• Go bigger, lose less

• Internal Capital

Integrate Technologies

• Controls• Daylighting• Monitoring• Plug Loads


How to move existing buildings

• Create and support innovative technical solution sets that build on the strengths of existing buildings.

• Critical need for new financial tools that can support deep savings (40% to 60%)

• Move from widget based efforts to integrated system based efforts with enhanced controls.

• Provide like examples of projects.


RMI – Michael Bendewald & Victor Olgyay

Separate presentation available


Closing

• DOE commercial Building Initiative (and High Performance Buildings Database) http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/commercial_initiative

• Zero Energy Commercial Buildings Consortium www.zeroenergycbc.org

• EPA ENERGY STAR® www.energystar.gov

– Battle of the Buildings www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=buildingcontest.index

– Portfolio Manager www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=evaluate_performance.bus_portfoliomanager

• USGBC LEED® Existing Building Operations & Management (EBOM) www.usgbc.org/LEED

• Urban Land Institute “Lessen” www.less-en.org

• NEEA BetterBricks Existing Buildings Renewal Initiative www.neea.org/ourwork/commercial.aspx

• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Energy IQ Benchmark tool www.energyiq.lbl.gov

Related Work on Existing Buildings (1)

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• BOMA www.boma.org– 7-Point Challenge, BOMA 360® , Building Energy Efficient Programs (BEEP), Experience Exchange

Report

– Kilowatt Crackdown www.kilowattcrackdown.betterbricks.com

• Green Globes www.greenglobes.com

• AIA: 2030 Commitment and Sustainability 2030 Toolkit www.aia.org

• ASHRAE Building EQ Labeling Pilot www.buildingeq.com

• National Institute for Building Science (NIBS) www.nibs.org/index.php/nibs/newsevents/news/Entry/hearing_cbd

• Institute for Market Transformation and Natural Resources Defense Council BuildingRating.org www.buildingrating.org

• National Association of Energy Service Companies (NAESCO) www.naesco.org


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• RMI Retrofit Depot www.retrofitdepot.org

• New Buildings Institute Measured Performance and Getting to 50 database www.newbuildings.org

• NREL Open Studio http://openstudio.nrel.gov/energy-modeling-retrofit-projects

• California Strategic Energy Efficiency and Zero Energy Commercial Action Plans www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Energy+Efficiency/eesp

• Institute for Building Energy Efficiency www.institutebe.com (Johnson Controls, Inc.)

• Utility programs – check with your provider of energy

• Case Studies Sites – listed on NBI slide within the presentation

There are many more public and private efforts working to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings, this is not intended as a complete list but many sites will link to further resources.


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http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Energy+Efficiency/eesp�

http://www.institutebe.com/�


Q& A / Thank you

Cathy Higgins – Program [email protected]

Mike Bendewald – Analyst [email protected]

Victor Olgyay – Principal [email protected]

Shanti Pless – Sr. Research [email protected]

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New Buildings Institue, Cathy Higgins ~ Presenter