Volume 3 - Commercial Buildings: Technologies, Design, Performance Analysis, and Building Industry Trends

Zero Energy Windows

Dariush Arasteh, Steve Selkowitz, Josh Apte, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Marc LaFrance, U.S. Department of Energy

Empirical Benchmarking of Building Performance

Paul Bannister, Exergy Australia Pty Ltd; Adam Hinge, Sustainable Energy Partnerships

How Monitoring-Based Commissioning Contributes to Energy Efficiency for Commercial Buildings

Karl Brown, California Institute for Energy & Environment; Mike Anderson, Newcomb Anderson McCormick; Jeff Harris, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Evaluating the Energy Performance of the First Generation of LEED-Certified Commercial Buildings

Rick Diamond, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Mike Opitz, Tom Hicks, U.S. Green Building Council; Bill Von Neida, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Shawn Herrera, U.S. Department of Energy

Displacement Ventilation in Action: Performance Monitoring of Demonstration Classrooms

Charles Eley, John Arent, Architectural Energy Corporation; Bradley Meister, California Energy Commission

De-Scaling the Peak: The Impact of a Polarized Refrigerant Oil Additive on Chiller Performance at a U.S. Postal Service Processing & Distribution Center

William Golove, Alex Lekov, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Best Practices for Data Centers: Lessons Learned from Benchmarking 22 Data Centers

Steve Greenberg, Evan Mills, Bill Tschudi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Peter Rumsey, Rumsey Engineers; Bruce Myatt, EYP Mission Critical Facilities

Halfway to Zero Energy in a Large Office Building

Mark Hanson, Hoffman LLC/Vertegy; Steven Carlson, CDH Energy Corp.; Dan Sammartano, Alberici Constructors Inc.; Thomas Taylor, Vertegy

The Premium Economizer: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Reid Hart, Dan Morehouse, Will Price, Eugene Water & Electric Board

Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings

Philip Haves, Robert Hitchcock, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Kenneth Gillespie, Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Martha Brook, California Energy Commission; Chris Shockman, Shockman Consulting; Joseph Deringer, The Deringer Group; Kristopher Kinney, QuEST

Moving Toward Transparency and Disclosure in the Energy Performance of Green Buildings

Adam Hinge, Sustainable Energy Partnerships; Donald Winston, The Durst Organization; Byron Stigge, Buro Happold

Radiant Night-Sky Heat Rejection and Radiant Cooling Distribution for a Small Commercial Building

David Houghton, Resource Engineering Group, Inc.

Sidelighting Photocontrols Field Study

Owen Howlett, Lisa Heschong, Jon McHugh, Abhijeet Pande, Heschong Mahone Group, Inc.; Gregg Ander, Jack Melnyk, Southern California Edison Company; Steve Blanc, Pacific Gas and Electric Company; David Cohan, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance

IDeAs Z2 Design Facility: Design for a Net Zero Energy Building

David Kaneda, Integrated Design Associates, Inc.; T. Scott Shell, EHDD Architecture; Peter Rumsey, Rumsey Engineers, Inc.

Dynamic Controls for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response: Framework Concepts and a New Construction Case Study in New York

Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, Dave Watson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Glenn Hughes, The New York Times

Low Energy Building Case Study: The Rest of the Story

Curtis Klaassen, Iowa Energy Center; Tom McDougall, The Weidt Group; Kevin Nordmeyer, RDG Planning & Design

Update on California Commercial Building Benchmarking

Nance Matson, Mary Ann Piette, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Martha Brook, California Energy Commission

Cost Effective Simplified Controls for Daylight Harvesting

Konstantinos Papamichael, Erik Page, Keith Graeber, California Lighting Technology Center, University of California, Davis

Energy Savings from Daylighting: A Controlled Experiment

Scott Pigg, Abby Vogen, Energy Center of Wisconsin

LED Lighting in Interior Commercial Applications: Hype or a Real Contributor?

Jeffrey Schwartz, Paul Vrabel, ICF International

On-Site Generation Simulation with EnergyPlus for Commercial Buildings

Michael Stadler, Ryan Firestone, Dimitri Curtil, Chris Marnay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Zero-Energy Economics

Ryan Stromquist, David Kaneda, Nabeel Sultan, Integrated Design Associates, Inc.

Enhanced Refrigeration Diagnostics for an Improved Air Conditioning Tune-Up Program

Keith Temple, Todd Rossi, Field Diagnostic Services, Inc.

Zero Energy Buildings: A Critical Look at the Definition

Paul Torcellini, Shanti Pless, Michael Deru, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Drury Crawley, U.S. Department of Energy

Strategies for Demand Response in Commercial Buildings

David Watson, Sila Kiliccote, Naoya Motegi, Mary Ann Piette, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory