Abstract
Encouraging commercial building owners to set measurable energy goals before design begins can drive design and contractor teams to develop innovative energy efficiency solutions within conventional building budgets. A federal building owner piloted this technique and created a large-scale zero energy office building on a budget comparable to local market construction rates. The successes and lessons learned from this performance-based procurement project formed the basis of an expanded program using utilities as the outreach channel to replicate the approach. The utilities delivered incentive-based offerings to focus building owners on the whole building rather than on individual building components and systems. In addition, a ripple effect was evident, with individual building owners as well as owners of multiple-building portfolios adopting the techniques, sometimes with variations, but always maintaining the same core principles. The original performance-based procurement process and its successful implementation in a federal building project informed all these efforts. Those successes and lessons learned demonstrate that the approach can be adapted to utility programs with some variation and is a powerful tool for engaging building owners as they make critical design decisions that impact energy performance over the life of the building.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 12 |
State | Published - 2018 |
Event | 2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings - Pacific Grove, California Duration: 12 Aug 2018 → 17 Aug 2018 |
Conference
Conference | 2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings |
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City | Pacific Grove, California |
Period | 12/08/18 → 17/08/18 |
Bibliographical note
Available from ACEEE: see https://aceee.org/files/proceedings/2018/index.html; See NREL/CP-5500-71699 for preprintNREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5500-74165
Keywords
- buildings
- procurement
- utilities