Technical Highlights, Market Transformation and Outreach

• New Construction Commissioning Functional Test Protocol Library — PECI and LBNL conducted a series of meetings together and with PG&E, and held a working session at the 9th National Conference on Building Commissioning in May, 2001 on the FTP library.
   
• GSA GEMnet Support and Outreach — LBNL received funding from GSA to assist with GEMnet, GSA's Energy and Maintenance Network. GEMnet is a tool for commissioning and diagnostics, relevant to several tasks within Element 5. GEMnet involves remote, web-based performance monitoring for about 12 GSA buildings. LBNL assisted GSA in developing plans for demand-responsive (DR) systems operation and their successful bid for a CEC AB970 grant.
   
  • M.A. Piette presented GEMnet to the Federal Executive Board on May 4, 2001 in San Francisco at the Philip Burton Federal Building in a briefing with the Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, May 4, 2001.
     
  • M.A. Piette gave a follow-up presentation to the Federal Energy Executive Board regarding California building energy use and savings opportunities, June 12, 2001. This included research at the Oakland Federal Building.
     
  • LBNL has performed extensive analysis of energy use and EMCS monitoring at the Oakland Federal Building, including assistance in shedding 1 MW of demand on the Federal load shed test day.
     
• Guide to Diagnostic Tools. LBNL has had a series of detailed discussions with the buildings industry in the assessment of current diagnostic tools for re-commissioning large buildings. This work has resulted in a several conference papers and presentations.
   
  • The paper by H. Friedman and M.A. Piette, "Comparison of emerging Diagnostic tools for Large Commercial HVAC Systems", was presented at the 9^th National Conference on Building Commissioning, LBNL-47698. (1.62 MB, 96 pp)
     
  • The paper by H. Friedman and M.A. Piette, "Evaluation of Emerging Diagnostic Tools for Commercial HVAC Systems", will be presented at the. International Conference for Enhancing Building Operations, Austin, TX, July, 2001. LBNL-47966 (495.3 KB, 10 pp)
     
  • A related paper M.A. Piette, S. Kinney and H. Friedman, "EMCS and Time-Series Energy Data Analysis in a Large Government Office Building," was presented at the Proceedings of the 9^th National Conference on Building Commissioning, LBNL-47699. This effort links GSA GEMnet work with the CEC PIER Task 2.2.1 effort. The Oakland Federal building has been a site where we have collected substantial EMCS data to run through the diagnostic tools. (123.9 KB, 11 pp)
     
  • M.A. Piette described some of the Element 5 PIER research M.A. Piette at E-Source Conference, November, 2001. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Presentation title: "Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Today and Tomorrow".
     
  • M.A. Piette and N.Motegi presented current research at the Oakland Administration building and EMCS data analysis in collaboration with City of Oakland and Eley and Associates, Association of Energy Engineers Meeting, April 21, 2001, San Francisco.
     
• Commissioning Persistence — a paper entitled " Persistence of Savings Obtained from Continuous Commissioning^SM" was presented at the Ninth National Conference on Building Commissioning in May. This led to numerous discussions with commissioning professionals and building owners (including DOD).
   
• Guide to Use of EMCS for Monitoring. Culp has had numerous conversations with individuals at Siemens, Johnson Controls, Andover Controls, TAC-America, GSA, etc. concerning ongoing work in this task.
   
• Overall Element 5. Texas A&M organized the International Conference for Enhanced Building Operation which was held in July, 2001. It included several papers from Element 5 and highlight numerous areas related to this Element.
   
• Advanced Commissioning and Monitoring. A number of presentations and industrial contacts have been made in this area. These include:
   
  • A paper entitled "Model-based Performance Monitoring: Review of Diagnostic Methods and Chiller Case Study" by Philip Haves and Sat Kartar Khalsa was presented at the ACEEE Summer School in Asilomar, CA in August, 2000. (1.68 MB, 12 pp)
     
  • A paper entitled "Comparison of Chiller Models for use in Model-Based Fault Detection" by Priya Sreedharan and Philip Haves was presented at the International Conference for Enhancing Building Operations, Austin, TX, July, 2001. (428.3 KB, 10 pp) Additonally, Priya's Masters Degree Thesis Project with same name, "Comparison of Chiller Models for use in Model-Based Fault Detection", was completed and peer review by her Faculty Advisors at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. (1.59 MB, 95 pp)
     
  • A paper entitled "Use Of Whole Building Simulation In On-Line Performance Assessment: Modeling And Implementation Issues" by Philip Haves, Tim Salsbury, David Claridge, and Mingsheng Liu was presented at the IBPSA Conference in Brazil during July.
     
  • The calibrated simulation approach being developed in this project has been used in two papers presented this year:
     
    • "Persistence of Savings Obtained from Continuous Commissioning ^SM" by Turner, Claridge et al., presented at the National Commissioning Conference in April.
       
    • "A 45% Reduction in Cooling Use Without Capital Expenditure in a Previously Retrofit Building" by Claridge et al. was presented at the Summer Study of the European Committee for an Energy Efficient Economy in June.
       
  • Philip Haves served as a member of Project Monitoring Subcommittee for ASHRAE Research Project 1193, "Development and Comparison of On-Line Model Training Techniques for Model-Based FDD Methods Applied to Vapor Compression Equipment".
     
• Cross Program Communication — The LBNL diagnostic tool analysis has fostered communication among the AEC and LBNL PIER programs. LBNL staff have had extensive discussions with PNNL and AEC about Enforma and the whole-building diagnostician.
   
• ACEEE Presentations — LBNL staff made several presentations at the 2000 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Building. The forthcoming PIER projects were discussed as several of the presentations. One such presentation was "Use of an Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System in Improve Building Operations
   
• Energy-Crisis Activities — Piette collaborated with the CERTs program to evaluate how the PIER HPCBS program connects with the CERTS-PIER and AB970. Piette provided feedback to the CEC regarding the monitoring capabilities of EMCS and developed Year 2 research plans to ensure that the activities are closely coordinated.
   
• IEA Annex 40 — The International Energy Agency has a started a multi-year collaborative research project on "Commissioning of Building HVAC Systems for Improved Energy Performance." LBNL and Texas A&M University are part of the US team and Philip Haves and David Claridge participated in a meeting in Quebec City in September 2001.