Interesting comments from Tony. Good to see this level of sophistication in the commercial upgrade market:
A few weeks ago a business consortium including Lockheed Martin and Barclays Capital announced the largest single private-sector investment to-date for commercial property energy efficiency retrofits. The business consortium, referred to as the PACE Commercial Consortium, [...]
Back in November 2010 I posted (ENR link now broken) that I couldn’t believe MGM would actually demolish the Harmon Hotel, part of the massive City Center development in Las Vegas. Apparently, I was wrong:
Plans submitted to the county call for the building to be imploded in six months, with four months of cleanup [...]
Given that the headline for this recent ASHRAE news brief reads “What is Energy Use Intensity? ASHRAE Seeks to Define, Educate”, this sentence may seem a bit contradictory:
Given that there is no clear single definition for EUIs, comparing one organization’s EUI goals to another’s is confusing, particularly since everyone tends to [...]
Hat tip to the ASHRAE HVAC&R newsletter for this nugget:
China will “top out” a new skyscraper every five days for the next three years as it continues to embark on the biggest building boom in history, according to newly published research.
One can only wonder what the implications of this mean, not least of all because….
A [...]
From Tony:
On Thursday, February 10, 2011, ASTM will publish its long-awaited Standard E2797-11, Building Energy Performance Assessment (BEPA). The consensus standard was two years in development by a Task Group consisting of more than 220 professionals, including consultants, engineers, architects, attorneys, real estate service providers, real estate investors, building owners [...]
Via EETD, this from Technology Review:
Project developers typically guarantee certain savings, some or all of which are used to pay the cost of installing and maintaining the equipment; on the assumption that customers will use less energy, the developer charges them less than they would pay the utilities. If the money [...]
The Washington, DC, commercial building energy disclosure law was great news when it passed in 2008 and I’m happy to see it coming in to effect. It will be interesting to see how it affects leasing and development in the DC market. Beyond DC though the comparisons will be weak, so says the always insightful [...]
From last week’s Economist:
Electricity prices are going up at a time when offices are becoming cluttered with ever more power-draining electronic equipment. This is producing opportunities for firms that sell technology for managing power use, for example by monitoring who is where in a building and switching off lights and other [...]
The ICC has approved changes to the energy conservation code that represent a significant improvement over 2006 version, a 30% improvement to be more precise. This is a big deal, and not just for the future building stock.
Code making is a political process and decisions are not always made based on science, logic, etc… All [...]
The Environmental Energy Technologies Division at LBL has posted Joe Lstiburek’s talk from their Distinguished Lecture Series. I’ve seen him give this talk a number of times but it is easy to get sucked into time and time again. Knowing that Dr. Joe is leans rightwards (falls over rightwards?) makes his talk at Berkeley all [...]
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