Below are several messages that you maybe interested in reviewing concerning:
- Design Guides for going
beyond ASHRAE:
- Information on Biodiesel
- Rightsizing Rooftop
Equipment
Arnie
1. Design Guides for Going beyond ASHRAE:
* Michael Deru, from the NREL Buildings group, is producing design guidelines for achieving 30% energy savings beyond ASHRAE 90.1-2004 for eight Army Corps of Engineers building types in 15 climate zones. These building types are training barracks, unaccompanied enlisted personnel housing barracks, small office building, maintenance facility, dining facility, medium office building, daycare center, and reserve center. Drafts have been completed for the first four of these buildings and the finals will be done soon. Work on the other four will start in October. The information will be publicly available. I would think the small and medium office buildings information would be useful.
* Labs21 has draft energy modeling guidelines available at http://www.epa.gov/lab21gov/pdf/ashrae_appg_draft_508.pdf. There is a design guide that may be useful also - see http://www.epa.gov/lab21gov/toolkit/design_guide.htm .
* NREL used DOE-2 for the new Science and
Technology Facility and will likely use either DOE-2 or Energy Plus for the
planned Research Support Facility.
* AutoCAD and the US Green Building
Council (USGBC) have formed a partnership:
AutoDesk, the creators of AutoCAD
software, and USGBC recently announced that it has entered into a strategic
relationship with USGBC aimed at expanding the use of technology and to
facilitate further adoption of sustainable design and green building. Autodesk
and USGBC plan to work on several initiatives to make sustainable design easier
and more efficient through the use of technology such as the Autodesk Revit
platform for building information modeling (BIM). As the first step, Autodesk
and the USGBC plan to develop an educational curriculum for architecture and
engineering students.
More information is available on p. 2 of http://chapters.usgbc.org/westmichigan/docs/pdf/USGBCWM_Newsletter_Dec2006.pdf
2. Biodiesel Information
Per our discussion last week at the EEWG meeting, there is biodiesel information on the following web site - http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/npbf/pubs_biodiesel.html. "Biodiesel Handling and Use" is the first link. The fleet evaluation information may be of interest also (see links at the bottom of the page). The second report is for a USPS fleet evaluation.
Other links that may be useful:
Federal Network of Sustainability - http://www.federalsustainability.org/initiatives/biodiesel.htm.
National Biodiesel Board - http://www.biodiesel.org/
3. Rightsizing Rooftop Equipment
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