Energy Star tax credits
Misinformation again. Its enough to make you want to take up arms.
Some real estate and energy efficiency professionals have called into question the credibility of a study paid for by NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, on the economics of high energy performance in commercial offices. The study focussed on the average 4 story office of 90,000 square feet or so.
This was the reaction,
“…in a biting memo posted Monday on the web site of Architecture 2030, a green building advocacy organization, the group’s founder, Edward Mazria, cast the NAIOP study as a “disinformation campaign” that was meant to “stall, confuse and distort” energy efficiency facts in advance of Senate hearings on improving building code standards.
“This type of activity by NAIOP not only hurts our country, it is also a disservice to their membership and all those in the Building Sector who work hard to deliver a high-quality, energy-efficient building product,” Mazria said.
NAIOP may be obfuscating the issue by funding such a crappy report. They leave out some basic and inexpensive methods for achieving the CODE -30% energy target. They forgot to add in the tiny incremental cost of adding demand control ventilation controls to the RTUs, and they never made any mention of a variable speed motors anywhere, not on any fans, not on the compressors, no where!!!!! Simple stuff that should and can be added relatively easily was ignored by the report.
One more evidence that The greatest ideas have been adopted by the Europeans faster than here where the construction industry has been so resistant to any change American leadership in architectural engineering, if there ever was any, has drifted away. Our levels of understanding of basic science have really fallen down here.
The point is, the NAIOP report itself has lots of holes and is incomplete, as I mentioned above.
