Technical Highlights, Market Transformation and Outreach
Element 2 has achieved a number of important technical results in the first year. We also maintained a high level of market outreach activity to communicate our research work to interested parties both through invited presentations and technical papers, despite the lack of PG&E MT funding.

• Cal-ARCH software development. Completed Web-based benchmarking software following a detailed analysis of California Commercial Buildings Survey data: see http://poet.lbl.gov/cal-arch. (Note, this is a research web user interface and as such is revised often.)
   
• Presentation of Cal-Arch benchmarking tool at the Pacific Energy Center on May 30, 2001. PG&E led this day-long course to meet the challenge of rising energy costs by learning how to identify opportunities for energy savings in a building through observation, evaluation of billing data, and the use of simple tools.
   
• Presentations and analysis of California schools energy use data — Mary Ann Piette presented results from the analysis of California schools and the related Energy Star Schools benchmarking score at the California Commissioning Collaborative (April 23, 2001) and the New Buildings Institute Meeting on Design Intent versus As-Built Performance, April 27, 2001. LBNL's analysis was used to modify the initial plans for the Governor's Energy Challenge and is being used by EPA to change the EPA Energy benchmarking methodology.
   
• Presentations by Rob Hitchcock on Performance Metrics, Metracker, and Interoperability
   
  • Speaker: "Facility Information Council Initiative at the National Institute of Building Sciences," National Council for Construction Information Meeting, McGraw-Hill and CERF sponsored, Washington, DC, December 7, 2000. (239.0 KB, 10 pp)
     
  • Speaker/Demonstrator: "Interoperable Computer Applications for the HVAC Industry," ASHRAE Winter Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January, 2001. (206.0 KB, 6 pp)
     
  • Speaker/Demonstrator: "Demonstration of Software Interoperability," IBPSA Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January, 2001. (206.0 KB, 6 pp)
     
  • Speaker/Demonstrator: "AEC Software Interoperability," Building Smarter in the Digital Age Conference, National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards, Inc., Arlington, VA May 31-June 1, 2001.
     
  • Speaker: "State-of-the-Art Review of Building Data Exchange for Software Interoperability," ASHRAE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, June 2001. (262.0 KB, 11 pp)
     
  • Speaker: "Performance Metrics Data Model," ASHRAE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, June 2001. (124.0 KB, 8 pp)
     
• Presentations by Vladimir Bazjanac on Interoperability
   
  • The HVAC interoperability project was publicized and explained at interoperability workshops organized by California utilities (in Santa Monica and San Francisco) and at the Timberline Conference (in Atlanta, GA) in February 2001, at the IAI Industry Day (in Washington, DC) in April 2001, and at the International Standards Organization's SC-4 meeting (in San Francisco), the AEC Systems Show (in Chicago). (250.3 KB, 8 pp)