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Energy Monitoring for Green Building Certifications

Sustainability is increasingly an essential business strategy - for companies large and small. A Green Building can cut costs, create a healthy environment for workers or tenants, and enhance corporate image. Green Building certification can facilitate Green Leases in the highly competitive Class A office space market, and create the conditions to improve productivity or trim insurance costs. Plus, individual states and cities are passing Green Building ordinances - Seattle’s new Energy Disclosure Ordinance, NYC’s PLANYC - Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, San Francisco’s SF Squared plan and CALGreen, to name a few. These programs will have compliance requirements and may well serve as the basis for new retrofit incentive programs. The best known Green Building certification regime is U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program spanning an array of project types: o New commercial construction and major renovation projects (LEED-NC) o Existing building operations (LEED-EB) o Commercial interiors projects (LEED-CI) o Core and shell projects (LEED-CS) o Healthcare o Retail Another Green Building program – Green Globes – is managed by The Green Building Initiative which rates buildings to promote environmentally friendly buildings. Then, there is the Department of Energy’s initiative for Net-Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB). What’s the common thread? Each of these Green Building regimes require that building owners monitor, track and report resource utilization on an on-going basis – not just during a certification process.

How can Agilewaves help you meet LEED requirements?

Agilewaves can be essential to your sustainability initiatives, by providing an advanced building measurement foundation – one that supplies the rigorous metrics required by LEED and more. There are multiple ways that the Agilewaves’ Building Optimization System can help you meet LEED’s requirements by providing a robust building infrastructure: - E&A: Energy Optimization is our forte and a key activity within the Energy and Atmosphere credits. By providing virtual submetering for energy and water use, along with the analytical tools to optimize performance continuously, Agilewaves can help you achieve immediate energy savings – often 20+% in the first year. Our flexible design allows you to set baselines, then track resource use for discrete Energy Efficiency Measures (EEM). - Water Performance: Agilewaves can provide water metering for both potable and non-potable water performance measurement, and leak detection. - For Indoor Environmental Quality credits, Agilewaves’ installations can include IAQ, temperature and humidity sensors to provide readings which can be correlated with energy utilization. Lighting control systems can also be integrated into your Agilewaves building infrastructure. - ENERGY STAR: Agilewaves can automatically upload data to ENERGY STAR's Portfolio Manager to continuously benchmark the building to track progress towards the 69-point prerequisite score that LEED requires. - Measurement & Verification: Agilewaves can serve as your foundation for verifying progress for LEED-EBOM projects and suspport new Pilot Credits for the new LEED Advanced Energy Metering initiative. It's now recogized that performance data must not simply be collected, but gathered and processed in a manner that allows meaningful comparison between predicted and actual energy performance. Agilewaves provides the foundation for ongoing accountability of building energy consumption over time per the new LEED Credits 26 & 27: - Permanently installed meters with recording intervals stored in 5-minute increments - Measurements for consumption, demand and power factor - Ability to transmit data to remote location - Data Collection via LAN or Building Automation Sytem - Data Storage for metered data, up to 11 years - Remotely-accessible data retrieval and energy diagnostic reports of hourly, daily, monthly and annual energy use data. Agilewaves routinely measures all whole-building energy sources (electrcity, gas, steam, etc) as well as renewables generation, and can scale, as needed, to collect and track discrete measurements for typcial end uses (HVAC, lighting, plugloads, etc). With a modular design that can scale from whole-building energy source measurement to end-use consumption metrics, Agilewaves can easily support LEED designs using either the Prescriptive Approach (Option 1/Path 1 & 2) or Performance Approach (Option 2/Path 1 & 2). Download the details. Additional Information Building Commissioning & Energy Monitoring Net-Zero Energy Buildings

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