Track: Commissioning: Optimizing New and Existing Buildings and their Operation
Sponsor: Building EQ Committee
Chair: Hoy Bohanon, P.E., Member, Hoy Bohanon Engineering, PLLC, Clemmons, NCASHRAE is in the process of introducing an updated version of Building EQ. A web portal will be available soon for data entry and building energy evaluation. Concurrent with this offering, APPA is promoting the partnership with ASHRAE to its members. A college course is being offered through the student branches. Come and hear how an alliance between ASHRAE Chapters, ASHRAE Student Branches, University Facilities Managers (APPA) and University Instructors rolls into action this fall.
1. The New Building EQ
Hugh Crowther, Member, Swegon North America, Inc., Markham, ON, Canada
Building EQ has many new features and offers support for ASHRAE members in their energy savings efforts. The most prominent change is that data will be entered through a web portal rather than filling out a spreadsheet. New marketing tools will be provided to members as the year progresses.
2. Adapt Building EQ
Michael Brandemuehl, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Adapt Building EQ provides a college senior-level undergraduate or graduate course on building energy auditing and analysis using the ASHRAE Building EQ rating system as a learning framework. Students will experience project-based learning through hands-on engineering in real buildings under the guidance of industry professionals. The course is nominally three semester credit hours. It involves 10 weeks of classroom instruction followed by five weeks of hands-on field work in teams under the guidance of local industry mentors. Course content will be freely available through ASHRAE student branches. Students will be expected to purchase some resources through ASHRAE with student discounts.
3. ASHRAE’s Partnership with APPA
Daniel Redmond, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
The ASHRAE Building EQ program benefits owners and managers of building portfolios. For each building, the program provides an energy rating along with actionable recommendations to improve building performance. These recommendations are made by a professional assessment of a building’s energy use as determined by In Operation and/or As Designed ratings method. Building EQ is the only rating system that offers both methods with a consistent baseline to make comparisons along with detailed actionable recommendations. ASHRAE entered into an agreement with APPA in July 2016 with the commitment to cooperate across many areas including implementing Building EQ on university campuses.
4. APPA’s Opportunity and Expectations of Building EQ
Charles Scott, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
APPA is the preeminent organization for university facilities management in North America. APPA has 15,000 members at 1400 institutions. APPA is keenly interested in transforming the way we look at performance of buildings. APPA entered into an agreement with ASHRAE to cooperate in areas of mutual interest. Building EQ offers one opportunity to advance facilities management and help positively shape our current and future built environment.
Presented: June 25, 2017, 1:30-3:00 PM
Run Time: 90 min.
This is a zip file that consists of PowerPoint slides synchronized with the audio-recording of the speaker (recorded presentation), PDF files of the slides, and audio only (mp3) for each presentation.
Citation: ASHRAE Seminar Recordings, 2017 ASHRAE Annual Conference, Long Beach , CA
Product Details
- Published:
- 2017
- Units of Measure:
- Dual
- File Size:
- 1 file , 84 MB
- Product Code(s):
- D-LB17Sem13
