When Urban Renaissance Group purchased Tower 333, a 20-story office building in Bellevue, Wash., they knew the aging and inefficient water-booster system needed to be replaced. The original system consisted of three 20-horsepower constant-speed booster pumps operated in a staged sequence, bringing on successive pumps as demand changed. With a commitment to occupant comfort and maintaining the building's energy-efficiency certifications, the company knew they had to find a replacement for the aging water-booster system that would save energy and improve performance.
BetterBricks' Commercial and Industrial Energy Talk Cards make it easy to engage your team in Strategic Energy Management (SEM) best practices by empowering them with key learning points and relevant discussion topics on building energy efficiency. These digestible, user-friendly cards cover many of the most common issues that can contribute to poor building performance, with helpful images, crucial context, and actionable coaching tips integrated throughout.
Despite the importance of both an energy policy and an energy plan, the definitions of these respective terms are not uniformly agreed upon across all SEM practitioners. To help guide consistency and cohesion within the SEM community, this document defines these two discrete activities while outlining their differences and the ways they relate to and support one another.
These print-ready cards provide key learning points and discussion topics on energy efficiency to engage your team in discussions on a variety of SEM tools, approaches and methods. The Commercial Energy Talk Cards will help you increase participation and reinforce energy efficiency practices for key systems in your commercial facility.
This report is an initial investigation of the energy benefits of using very high efficiency DOAS in a multi-family building applications to understand the trade-offs in efficiency compared to conventional systems and the impacts of using select options for more significant energy savings potential.
Very high efficiency dedicated outdoor air systems (very high efficiency DOAS) are a proven solution for reducing energy consumption as they optimize the control and functionality of ventilation and thermal comfort independently.
This comprehensive design guide includes the system definition and design recommendations that provide guidance to manufacturers, designers and specifiers regarding the key components of a Very High Efficiency Dedicated Outside Air System.
Electric motors meeting the NEMA Premium standard are now the starting point for many pumps, fans, and other motor-driven systems being sold today. Even greater efficiency is available with electrically commutated motors, synchronous motors, and other cutting-edge motor technologies.
Sensitivity to energy and the environment, along with consumer demand, has pushed the commercial real estate market to focus on energy-efficient, high-performance buildings.
Building performance often declines without a plan to continuously evaluate and maintain energy performance after improvements are made.
Building renewal is centered on an investment strategy that delivers ongoing value to its stakeholders: owners, tenants, investors, and society. Meeting these objectives can be measured in many ways: net operating income, avoided future risk, tenant attraction/retention, achieving environmental and social governance (ESG) reporting targets, and ultimately delivering a healthy, productive, environment for building users.
Whether your goal is to position your building for long-term, energy-efficient, high-value operations, or to meet a demanding energy performance standard, we all know that no project comes off without a hitch. All projects risk not meeting important milestones, cost overruns, and extended timelines, or something worse if planning doesn’t include a strategy for the “what ifs.”
