|
| Energy Management In Commercial Buildings |
| Curbing Energy Consumption Excesses |
Office building expenses represent major costs for corporations, but most are hidden in monthly utility bills or leasehold expenses. Heating, cooling and ventilation energy costs can be 50% or more of the total energy consumption according to recent U. S. Department of Energy data. This affords a significant opportunity for cost reductions.
Furthermore, because of business contraction, landlords are now dropping rents, spending extra money to customize tenant offices and are luring real estate brokers with higher commissions. This puts even more pressure to reduce expenses to fill the available building space.
| |
In California, on January 1, 2010, a new law (AB 1103) requires building owners or operators to disclose the building's Energy Star energy performance rating for the most recent 12-month period to a prospective purchaser, lender or lessee. This means that next year, anyone looking to buy, finance or lease a building in California will be entitled to obtain the building’s energy performance data and compare it to other similar buildings. This could result in a rental discount and a loss of competitiveness in the marketplace for less efficient buildings. |
Landlords or corporations simply cannot afford to replace or renovate their building portfolio. What else can be done?
|
| An Opportunity |
| There is a lot of talk today of energy efficiency and going green. Best–in-class businesses see this as an strategic opportunity to gain an advantage. Information technology is a proven change agent to affect the transformation in energy consumption. We’ve all heard that “if you can’t measure it you can’t control it”. Significant advances in wireless-mesh technologies for monitoring (and control) for demand-side energy management are making it possible, on a truly broad scale, to understand exactly how energy is being consumed in multiple buildings on an economic basis. Enhancing energy efficiency increases property value and marketability.
|
|
|
|
|
“A 30 percent reduction in energy consumption can lower operating costs by $25,000 per year for every 50,000 square feet of office space.” (www.fypower.org) |
|
Energy Usage In Commercial Buildings by End Use
|
|
Wireless Pneumatic Direct Digital Control for Energy Smart Buildings
How can the pneumatically controlled building advance with the times to be sustainable without a disruptive and costly overhaul?
THE ANSWER 
|
|
