Energy Star tax creditsThis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report, Building Commissioning: A Golden Opportunity for Reducing Energy Costs and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions should inform the skeptics about the efficacy of this process for buildings. Regular tuneups for your car are the norm, so the same should be for your building.
I quote:
“This report [...]
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Let us go back to the tried and proven. The Bush sponsored tax cuts did not do what they were supposed to do. We forgot to take Teddys advice, as quoted below.
The tax cuts did not increase our national economic vitality one wit. They should be allowed to [...]
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The latest numbers are that US buildings consume $320 billion/year in energy. 2/5 of all the energy used in the US. And about 40% of the energy (costing $120 billion/year) is used in buildings for HVAC.
Some of the 2009 stats HVAC designs that I have incorporated recently into my [...]
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Trends: Read the chart on your buildings energy usage. Monthly charts can usually be found on the monthly utility bills. Your utility company can provide them upon request (usually). If and when you can acquire the hourly or daily usage charts, the pattern of usage can be very revealing [...]
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The guys over at Autodesk made this cute animation to drive the point home
The Buildings Sector accounts for about 40% of U.S. Energy, 72% of Electricity, and 34% of Natural Gas use. Building energy costs totaled $390 billion in 2006.
The Buildings Sector accounts for about 40% of U.S. Energy, 72% of Electricity,
and 34% of Natural [...]
I have a BS ED, which is a science that encompasses the junction between engineering and architecture. My expertise is in buildings and how they work. I focused all my career on design of the built environment and building systems. I was educated in energy conservation, [...]
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I would like to share this 2006 excerpt from the Building Design and Construction magazine white paper on the bottom line of building commissioning.
To put some solid numbers on benefits of commissioning, Evan Mills, PhD, and colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Portland Energy Conservation, and Texas A&M University (Energy Systems Laboratory) reviewed [...]
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What if? Energy independence, green jobs, deal with peak oil , have healthier children, cleaner air and water, save the rainforests….
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This is a bit of deja vu about energy. Like the last energy crisis. But now they say it is different.
This New York Times article, “A Surplus of Energy That Might Even Last” is provocative.
It says this may be an inflection point in our economy and its dependence on energy. [...]
Corporate geothermal or (ground-coupled or pond-coupled ) HVAC systems are eligible for tax credits under the same law as renewable energy measures tax credits. Renewable energies (wind and solar) and combined heat-power systems get a 30% tax credit. A new geothermal /geocoupled heat pump investment will garner a 10% tax refund, [...]
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