Our Program

Building Occupant Awareness (BOA) Training

Occupant Awareness Training events are typically presented to building occupants with the goal of creating the awareness, and provide the knowledge that will encourage and support lifestyle action that results is resource efficiency savings in buildings. Findings in the needs assessment are incorporated into the content of the Occupant Awareness Training program in order to make learning especially relevant to occupants’ daily workplace activities.

Topics covered include those aspects of lighting, electrical, HVAC, and water
management that building where occupants can influence sustainability and costs savings.

O&M Training & Documentation

An O&M training program has been designed to integrate the development of Standards of Performance for building operations, for presentation in 3 workshops formatted sessions. Standards of Performance for building operations are needed to benchmark building performance against optimum efficient operation. The standards must be measurable and quantifiable and understood by building operation personnel.

The Building Operation Training Workshops have been developed specifically to assist in this Continuing Education process for facility operation and maintenance staff.

Energy & Environmental Measures

Energy and Environmental measures is the work of retrofitting buildings with new and more efficient technologies.  Converting t-12 florescent lights with t-8’s, installing roof top solar photovoltaics, placement of recycling system and installing new and efficient toilets are examples of such measures.  This work is done with internal work crews or subcontracted out to energy services companies, known as esco’s.

Monitoring and Verification

Monitoring and Verification is required to measure the performance of the environmental and energy measures. One critical aspect of any monitoring system is the definition of a baseline. The baseline is the term used to describe the condition before measures are implemented. For energy management purposes, buildings will use historical energy use as a baseline. A number of monitoring methods are defined in the International Monitoring and Verification Protocol.

The main energy monitoring methods defined in the protocol are:

1. Baselines are determined for individual measures with metering at the measure level
2. Baselines are determined for individual meters with metering at the building level
3. Baselines are determined using energy simulation models and simulation is calibrated using metered energy use.

Energy accounting software is used to establish baselines and compare baseline energy use to current energy use. The software can adjust for weather and utility reading dates for utility billing periods. The software can also verify utility bills for the correct application of utility rate structures. Reports are provided that can be adapted for specific energy management needs.

Web Info Center

The Web Info Center is an Internet web site that serves as an information portal for all resource conservation activities within the organization. It provides as a centralized location to store all documents pertaining to resource conservation as well as provide access to all learning and reference manuals. The web site is also branded as the client’s and customized to display regionally relevant information, learning resources and web links.