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ESCO: Energy Efficiency Investment with No Money Down
by Eveline KillianAn Energy Services Company (ESCO) is a commercial business that “will identify and evaluate energy saving opportunities and then recommend a package of improvements to be paid for...
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The Success of a Performance Contract Lies in the Details
by Eveline KillianA Performance Contract with an Energy Services Company (ESCO) can be a powerful tool to enable a business to improve the performance of their facility without requiring money upfront....
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Is “Whole Building” Energy Consumption Whole?
by Brent WeigelIt is common knowledge in the architecture/engineering (A/E) professions that buildings consume a large portion of the total energy consumed in the United States (approximately 40...
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An Energy Efficient Home Informed by Commercial Buildings
by Emily CrossOver the last year, I have become the proud owner of an energy efficient home. Designed and built from scratch, based on passive house principles by a team of local building...
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Building Management System Seasonal Reset: Don’t Forget
by Eveline KillianIt’s easy to forget to reset your building management system (BMS) or a direct digital control (DDC) system seasonally. Did you overwrite your building management system to forgo...
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Building Controls Wisdom from Notes on a Napkin
by Jennifer ChiodoI was cleaning my desk today and came across a napkin on which I’d scrawled some notes about why Building Performance Monitoring and Metrics (BPMM) are important and what the end game...
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Functional Performance Testing of Your HVAC System Brains: Part 2
by Katie MasonIn Part 1 of this blog post series, I discussed the process and reasoning behind why it is important to do functional performance testing (FPT) on your building HVAC system. I also...
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Financing Energy Efficiency – A Bull in the China Shop?
by Jennifer ChiodoI’ve been working in the energy efficiency arena since I started designing buildings under California’s brand new energy code in the early 1980s. I’ve worked in most sectors of the...
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Retrocommissioning Field Lessons
by Eveline KillianPart 1: Performance Improvement and Proven Energy Savings I recently presented at the NCBC conference in Hartford, Connecticut on the lessons we have learned from our...
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US Ranks 13th out of 16 in Energy Efficiency
by Jennifer ChiodoEnergy efficiency is a tremendous opportunity that we are squandering at the federal level. While many states have adopted aggressive energy savings goals and have committed the...
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Retrocommissioning to Make Building HVAC Systems Work Better
The term retrocommissioning, (commissioning for existing buildings), frequently rises in conversations when commercial building owners, operators and facility managers gather to talk about how to make...
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Process Evaluation for Efficiency Programs
Most state and utility energy efficiency programs undergo a “process evaluation” to assess how well the programs achieve their objectives, and how the programs could do better. Process evaluations can...
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The Retrocommissioning Process: Where To Start?
As a company that does a good amount of retrocommissioning (RCx) – the commissioning process applied to existing buildings – when taking on a new project we are often faced by a question asked by both...
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