How do you design a building to be energy-efficient?
Energy-efficient buildings can be defined as buildings that are designed to provide a significant reduction of the energy used for heating and cooling, lighting or other functions within the building. Energy efficiency can be achieved through active or passive systems, high-performance design and system selection. Energy efficiency can be achieved at many levels as designers work to achieve zero energy, high-performance or some other metric.
Sustaining high-performance buildings
High-performance building managers can optimize financial operations management and monitoring using integrated data platforms and a proven facility sustainability roadmap
How to implement high-performance design
High-performance design drives owners and designers to integrated thinking to gain a holistic perspective on how to maximize building performance outcomes
Best practices for zero energy buildings and smart grid integration
Zero energy buildings, renewable energy and the smart grid are key considerations to commercial building design
What is a zero energy building?
What does it really mean for an engineer to design a zero energy building?
Green, zero energy and energy-efficient buildings
How do you design an energy-efficient building? Learn about codes and standards, building energy terminology and design goals
Strategies to improve chiller plant performance, efficiency
Learn how to design chilled water systems that meet the thermal comfort demands and achieve operational and energy efficiencies
Video: Commissioning in the Building Codes
Commissioning has been increasingly integrated into codes and standards and there are tools commissioning authorities and code officials can use to support compliance with these codes.
Leveraging data to make mechanical systems smarter
Analyzing building data can help to uncover and predict mechanical problems, as well as equip building operations and maintenance staff with and information to be more proactive and efficient while optimizing resources.
Designing an energy-efficient lighting system
Understanding codes, controls and commissioning are key to an effective lighting design for a new or existing building
Efficient HVAC system design strategies
The integration of high-performance HVAC design strategies can do as much to make systems energy-efficient as specifying high energy efficiency ratings.