[Bldg-sim] Bldg-sim Digest, Vol 46, Issue 7

Tianzhen Hong thong at lbl.gov
Thu Sep 8 14:30:51 PDT 2011


Joe,

A recent article (http://www.nber.org/papers/w16194.pdf?new_window=1) talks
about part of the BIG question.

Tianzhen

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:30 PM, <bldg-sim-request at lists.onebuilding.org>wrote:

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>   1. Announcement: onebuilding.org FAQ (Jason Glazer)
>   2. How much energy savings do you think has resulted from
>      building energy standards and voluntary programs in the US
>      building stock over the past 20 years ? (Joe Huang)
>   3. GE invests in high-tech green building outfit (Will Mak)
>   4. Re: GE invests in high-tech green building outfit (Mehta, Gaurav)
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> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:58:46 -0500
> From: Jason Glazer <jglazer at gard.com>
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> Subject: [Bldg-sim] Announcement: onebuilding.org FAQ
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> Announcing a new Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) page on
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:24:10 -0700
> From: Joe Huang <yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>
> To: BLDG-SIM <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>
> Subject: [Bldg-sim] How much energy savings do you think has resulted
>        from building energy standards and voluntary programs in the US
>        building stock over the past 20 years ?
> Message-ID: <4E68274A.9060801 at whiteboxtechnologies.com>
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> Hi, everyone,
>
> I've gotten involved in doing a short write-up for the United Nations
> Environmental
> Programme (UNEP) on the energy savings in the building sector due to the
> implementation of
> building energy standards over the past two decades.  My thesis is that
> although the
> theoretical energy efficiency of the building stock has improved
> significantly over this
> period, the actual measurable reductions in energy use intensity has been
> quite small, due
> to the following factors - increased amount of plug loads, and improvements
> in thermal
> comfort in lieu of real energy reductions (the so-called "take-back effect"
> mentioned by
> Mark Modera and others). The bottom line is that although one can say that
> energy use
> intensity in refrigerators have gone down by more than 50%, one cannot
> simply cannot say
> the same in either residential or commercial buildings.  At the most
> elementary level, has
> anyone documented the change in EUIs in residential and commercial
> buildings by vintage
> based on data bases such as RECS and CBECS for the entire US, or CEUS for
> California ?  On
> a more detailed level, does anyone know of studies that estimated the
> changes in space
> conditioning energy use between buildings built before the standards, i.e.,
> 1970's
> vintage, and afterwards, i.e., within the last decade?
>
> I'm throwing the net wide here, because I need to  get some ballpark
> numbers by this
> Friday.  Thanks.
>
> Joe
>
> Joe Huang
> White Box Technologies, Inc.
> 346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 108D
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 07:41:25 -0500
> From: "Will Mak" <wmak at epsteinglobal.com>
> To: <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>
> Subject: [Bldg-sim] GE invests in high-tech green building outfit
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> What do you all make of this?
>
>
>
> http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml?&nid=20102527&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-54 <
> http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml?&nid=20102527&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-54>
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>
>
> William Mak, LEED AP BD+C
> Mechanical Design Engineer
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> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:21:38 -0600
> From: "Mehta, Gaurav" <Gaurav.Mehta at stantec.com>
> To: "bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org" <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>
> Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] GE invests in high-tech green building outfit
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> I hope the good folks at GE realize that buildings don't use energy, people
> do.
>
> But then, as Winston Churchill said, we shape our environment and our
> environment shapes us. Maybe Project Frog can influence user behavior to use
> less energy!
>
> However, in my humble opinion Project Frog doesn't offer anything new what
> any architect or engineer who is sensitive to energy use in buildings
> doesn't offer.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gaurav
>
> Gaurav Mehta, LEED? AP BD+C
> Sustainable Building Analyst
> Stantec
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> From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
> bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Will Mak
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> To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
> Subject: [Bldg-sim] GE invests in high-tech green building outfit
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> What do you all make of this?
>
>
>
> http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml?&nid=20102527&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-54
>
> William Mak, LEED AP BD+C
> Mechanical Design Engineer
>
> EPSTEIN
> Architecture
> Interiors
> Engineering
> Construction
> Sustainability
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> 600 West Fulton Street
> Chicago, Illinois 60661-1259
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> F: (312) 429-8800
> E: wmak at epsteinglobal.com<mailto:wmak at epsteinglobal.com>
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