High Performance Building Technician Education:
Technologies, Trends, and Knowledge and Skills of Technicians
January 6 – 9, 2016 | Berkeley, Oakland, and Davis, California
Agenda | Event page | News Release
January 6 – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA
Welcome to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
– Mary Ann Piette, Head of LBNL Building Technology & Urban Systems Division
Commercial Building Ventilation: Effects on People and Building Energy Use, Standard Setting
– Bill Fisk, Senior Scientist (Retired), LBNL
Diagnosing Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality Problems in Commercial Buildings
– Industry Perspective by Bud Offermann, President, Indoor Environmental Engineering
Video | Presentation | IAQ Fact Sheet | IAQ Top Ten
Technologies to Measure and Control Ventilation Rates in Commercial Buildings: Show and Tell of Air Flow Measurement Devices
– Rengie Chan, Research Scientist, Indoor Environment Group of the Energy Analysis & Environmental Impact Division
Observations from the Paris Climate Treaty
– Lynn Price, Senior Staff Scientist and Leader of the China Energy Group of the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Energy Technologies Area, LBNL;
– Dr. Nan Zhou, Deputy Director, US-China Clean Energy Research Center for Buildings Energy Efficiency (CERC-BEE)/LBNL
On-Demand Ventilation
– Andrew Krioukov, CEO, Building Robotics
Fault Detection in Building HVAC Systems with Application to Central Chiller Plants: Introduction to Energy Management and Information Systems, HVAC System Fundamentals, and Fault Detection and Diagnosis
– Jessica Granderson, Research Scientist and Deputy for Research, Building Technology and Urban Systems Division, LBNL
Fault Detection exercise
– Lily Hu, Research Associate & Jessica Granderson, LBNL
The Future of Building Energy Efficiency
– Steve Selkowitz,Senior Advisor for Building Science (retired), LBNL
January 7 – UC Davis, Davis & Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
Welcome and Overview of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center
– Benjamin Finkelor, Executive Director, Energy Efficiency Center (EEC), UC Davis
Advanced Lighting and Daylighting Solutions for Existing Buildings
– Dr. Kosta Papamichael, Co-Director, California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), UC Davis
Water-Energy Nexus: Data Analytics and Integration
– Sumiko Hong, Executive Director, Center for Water and Energy Efficiency (CWEE), UC Davis
Overview of the Western Cooling Challenge
– Jonathan Woolley, Associate Engineer (WCEC), UC Davis
Building Energy Audits – ZOHO Automated Tool, and Entry-level Auditor Workforce Shift
– Siva Gunda, Director of Research, Energy Efficiency Center (EEC), UC Davis
What HVAC Technicians Need to Know to Realize Efficiency
– Kristin Heinemeier, Principal Engineer, Energy Efficiency Center (EEC), UC Davis
January 8 – Laney College, Oakland, CA
Maintaining Buildings for High Performance: What Building Technicians Must Know and Be Able to Do
– Paul Ehrlich, President and Founder, Building Intelligence Group
Video | Presentation
Managing High Performance Buildings: A Building Manager’s Perspective – Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) panel
– Moderated with commentary by Carlos Santamaria, Principal, CEES-Advisors & California Energy Chair, BOMA California. Panelist: Danny Murtagh, Director of Engineering, Embarcadero Center, and David Petroff, Senior Property Manager, Columbia Property Trust
Operating and Maintaining High-Performance Buildings: Preliminary Findings –
Peter Crabtree
coming soon
Synopsis of Findings for Certification of High-Performance Building Technicians
– Paul Ehrlich
Speaker Biographies (in order of appearance)
Wednesday, January 6 – Berkeley
Mary Ann Piette is the Director of LBNL’s Building Technology & Urban Systems Division and the Demand Response Research Center. She has been at LBNL since 1983 and specializes in commissioning, energy information systems, benchmarking, and diagnostics. She has authored over 100 papers on efficiency and demand response. In 2006 she received the Benner Award at the National Conference on Building Commissioning for contributions to making commissioning ‘business as usual’. Ms. Piette completed her undergraduate work in Physical Science at UC Berkeley, and holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. She earned a Licentiate in Building Services Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
Bill Fisk is a recently retired a Sr. Scientist (mechanical engineer) and served, prior to his retirement, as the leader of LBNL’s Indoor Environment Group. He has more than 30 years of experience in research on the interrelated issues of building energy performance, ventilation, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and occupant health and performance. His research focuses primarily on energy efficient methods of maintaining and improving ventilation and IEQ in commercial buildings and on quantifying the impacts of building ventilation and IEQ on health and performance. He is a fellow of ASHRAE, a member of the Academy of Indoor Air Sciences, and he serves on the editorial board for Indoor Air Journal. He is an author of approximately 100 refereed archival journal articles or book chapters. He has BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering.
Bud Offermann has 30 years’ experience as an IAQ researcher, sick building investigator, mitigation planner, healthy building design consultant, expert witness, technical author, and workshop instructor. As president of Indoor Environmental Engineering, a San Francisco-based IAQ consulting firm, Mr. Offermann directs an interdisciplinary team of environmental scientists, chemists, and mechanical engineers in indoor air quality building investigations and healthy building design projects. Under Mr. Offermann’s supervision, IEE has developed both pro-active and reactive IAQ measurement methods and diagnostic protocols. He has been a recipient of State and Federal research grants regarding building air quality and ventilation field studies (e.g. EPA BASE study of IAQ in office buildings and schools), tracer gas techniques, in situ contaminant emission rate measurements, and the development of indoor air quality measurement instrumentation. He has published extensively and lectured frequently on the subject of IAQ, ventilation, air cleaning, and product emission testing. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He is both a licensed professional Mechanical Engineer and a Certified Industrial Hygienist.
Rengie Chan is a Research Scientist in Indoor Environment Group of the Energy Analysis & Environmental Impact Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research interests include the following areas: (1) commercial building ventilation, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency, (2) residential air leakage and mechanical ventilation, and (3) indoor exposure to chemical and biological threats. Her research aims to generate knowledge to enable high performance, net zero energy use buildings that provide healthy and productive indoor environments. She led field studies to characterize indoor contaminant sources and evaluate energy efficient technologies to control occupant exposures. Prior to joining LBNL, she worked with Exponent, Inc. as a Senior Scientist in their Environmental & Earth Sciences practice. Dr. Chan earned her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
Lynn Price is a Senior Staff Scientist and Leader of the China Energy Group of the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Energy Technologies Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Ms. Price has an MS in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked at LBNL since 1990. Ms. Price has been a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, since 1994 and was an author on the industrial sector chapter of IPCC’s Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports on Mitigation of Climate Change. Since 1999, Ms. Price has provided technical assistance to the Energy Foundation China Program related to international experience with industrial sector energy efficiency policies. Ms. Price has provided technical and policy-making assistance related to energy efficiency and emissions reductions on a variety of projects since 1990 for the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. State Department, the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, the U.S. Agency for International Development, Energy Foundation China, California Energy Commission, and the California Air Resources Board.
Dr. Nan Zhou is a Scientist and the Deputy Group Leader of the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Zhou is also the Director of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Center Building Energy Efficiency consortium (CERC BEE). She has driven this program to meet challenging milestones while engaging with a complex joint U.S.-China stakeholder matrix and facilitated the creation of a research program portfolio to focus on breakthrough energy efficiency building technologies. Dr. Zhou’ s research has focused on modeling and evaluating China’s low-carbon development strategies, assessing building energy efficiency policies and technologies, and development and evaluation of China’s appliance standards and labeling program. Additional work includes energy efficiency in industry and assessments of energy efficiency policies.
Andrew Krioukov is the CEO and Co-Founder of Building Robotics. As a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley, he worked on software infrastructure for implementing building applications at scale. He has previously worked at Intel, Google, and IBM on energy efficiency and large-scale distributed systems. Andrew is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the 2014 Forbes 30 Under 30 award in Energy & Industry.
Jessica Granderson is a Research Scientist and the Deputy of Research Programs for the Building Technology and Urban Systems Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is a member of the Commercial Buildings research group. She holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and an AB in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University. Her research focuses on building energy performance monitoring and diagnostics, and intelligent lighting controls.
Lily Hu is a Graduate Student Research Assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a PD candidate at UC Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering. She holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a BASci in Energy Systems Engineering Science from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on improving energy performance using data-driven methods for detection, optimization, controls, and prediction.
Stephen Selkowitz is a Senior Advisor for Building Science, and the Group Leader of the Windows and Envelope Materials Group in the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division. As an internationally recognized expert on window technologies, façade systems, and daylighting, he collaborates with R&D teams worldwide. He is a frequently invited speaker to industrial and professional groups on many aspects of building technologies and commercial building energy efficiency and is the author/co-author of over 170 publications, 3 books and holds 2 patents. He is the Principal Investigator for the new LBNL program to design and build FLEXLAB, the Facility for Low Energy Experiments in Buildings. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Fenestration Rating Council and is currently on the advisory board of a number of efficiency initiatives such as the Green Lights Daylighting Program in New York City, and the Zero Emissions Building program in Norway. Before joining LBNL he was a principal in a consulting engineering firm and taught courses in Environmental Controls and Alternative Energy Systems. Selkowitz holds a BA in Physics from Harvard College and an MFA in Environmental Design from California Institute of the Arts.
Thursday, January 7 – Davis & Sacramento
Benjamin Finkelor currently serves as the Executive Director of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center (EEC). In this role, he manages the general operations of the organization, including the establishment and on-going oversight of strategic research collaborations between key faculty, staff, and students at UC Davis. He also works to maintain and grow relationships with supporting industry partners and communicate RD&D progress to program sponsors. Prior to joining the EEC, Mr. Finkelor served in a variety of roles within the Clean Technology sector, including Director of Business Development for a local clean energy start-up company, Interim Executive Director for CleanStart (a Sacramento-based business incubator supporting local clean energy technology ventures and entrepreneurs), and as a Cleantech Analyst for the private equity arm of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). Mr. Finkelor earned an MBA from the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis, where he studied Technology Management. He also earned an emphasis in Corporate Environmental Management through the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara.
Konstantinos (Kosta) Papamichael is a Professor in the Department of Design and the Co-Director of the California Lighting Technology Center at the University of California, Davis. He holds an Architectural Engineering degree from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, a Masters in Architecture from Iowa State University, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. Kosta has been working on the development of energy efficiency strategies and technologies for buildings for over 30 years, focusing on strategies, technologies and design tools for fenestration systems, daylighting, and the integration of electric lighting and fenestration controls. He holds five patents and is author/co-author of more than 100 publications. He has given numerous presentations on lighting and daylighting design strategies and technologies. He is the author of the Daylight Chapter of the Advanced Lighting Guidelines, the Chair of the IES Daylighting Committee, and the recipient of the 2013 IES Presidential Award for leading the development of the new version of the IES Recommended Practice for Daylighting Buildings.
Sumiko Hong is the Executive Director of the Center for Water and Energy Efficiency and is responsible for building strategic relationships with individuals, foundations, and corporate entities to increase visibility, awareness, and financial support for Water and Energy Efficiency related activities and initiatives at UC Davis. Sumiko has worked in external relations and development and UC Davis for eight years in the Office of Government and Community Relations and the Graduate School of Management. Ms. Hong holds a BA from UC Davis in International Relations.
Jonathan Woolley is Associate Engineer at the Western Cooling Efficiency Center, UC Davis. His building science research focuses on design, development, and control of low-energy mechanical systems. His efforts target full-scale demonstration and evaluation of emerging technologies for commercial and residential buildings, with a focus on strategies to enable Zero Net Energy. Since 2010 Jonathan has managed the Western Cooling Challenge. In that time the program has conducted laboratory evaluation of several hybrid rooftop air conditioners, facilitated design and installation of more than 30 pilot demonstrations, and supported the smart development and systems integration of various indirect evaporative cooling technologies. Recently, Woolley’s research has expanded to consider efficiency strategies related to whole-building systems integration, such as the use of multi-function heat pumps for heating, cooling, domestic hot water, and waste heat recovery. Beyond advancing state of the art technical solutions, Jonathan’s work embraces behavioral, economic, and policy opportunities as integral aspects of a pathway to sustainability in the built environment.
Siva Gunda is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering with a focus on alternate energy systems. His research focus is on the effect of sound and vibration on mass transfer through porous media, with applications towards enhancing the performance of PEM fuel cells. Prior to joining EEC, Siva worked at several private and public institutions including General Electric – Power Systems, California Fuel Cell Partnership, and the California Air Resources Board. Since joining the EEC, he received the Edison International Energy Efficiency fellowship between 2007 and 2009. He also received the Business Development Fellowship from the UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship in 2007. Over his time at the EEC, Siva was involved in the business development of a number of startups in the efficiency space, won the Little Bang business plan completion, and was a finalist at the California Clean Tech Open in 2008. He also presented at ACEEE on the efficiency of cars and principal-agent problems in campus computing usage. In the summer of 2008, he worked at PG&E as an intern in emerging technologies and in summer 2009 he worked with the Program for International Energy Technologies “Lighting the Way” team building a business in small-scale solar/LED technology for developing countries. Currently, as Director of Research, Siva oversees all the student projects at the center and runs the Market Assessment Assistance Program (MAAP).
Kristin Heinemeier recently joined the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center as Principal Engineer. Identifying ways to realize efficiency in the real world has been her life’s work, with a 30-year portfolio of positions at national labs, academia, private industry, non-profit organizations, and local government and community-based organizations. Heinemeier is currently founder and facilitator of the EEC Realized Energy Solutions Collaborative. In addition, she was one of the founders of the Western HVAC Performance Alliance. In January 2016, Heinemeier will be awarded the distinction of becoming an ASHRAE Fellow. She received her Ph.D. in building science from the University of California, Berkeley and is a licensed Mechanical Engineer.
Ryan Harty is the Founder of the Honda Home Energy Management System. He is a mechanical engineer and Manager of Honda’s Environmental Business Development Office, where he is responsible for developing product proposals, business models, and policy proposals for new environmentally oriented products and services. While he was an engineering student at the University of Alberta, Ryan was head of the University of Alberta Solar Vehicle Project, where his team built a solar powered race car and raced it from Chicago to Los Angeles along old Route 66. Now he is in a race to reduce CO2 emissions from Honda’s products and businesses, companywide.”
Friday, January 8 – Oakland
Jay Santos, P.E., is a co-founder of Facility Dynamics Engineering and has more than 30 years of experience in controls design, controls Master Planning, commissioning, retro-commissioning, and training. Jay is a recognized expert with a preeminent record of conceiving and implementing innovative, energy and cost-efficient designs in the fields of DDC controls, Building Controls Master Planning, and Building Automation Systems (BAS). He is also a renowned lecturer, educator, and author. Jay’s specialty is in developing BAS user guides covering interoperability concerns, architecture, hardware and software issues, and assisting owners and engineers in designing and selecting systems that best meet their BAS needs. Additionally, Jay teaches commissioning and DDC controls classes, conducts on-site training programs, provides technical consulting, and presents papers and lectures on commissioning, controls, and HVAC diagnostics. As principal-in-charge, Jay oversees review processes and identifies commissioning, retro-commissioning, and energy-conservation strategies based on his in-depth knowledge of the commissioning process and building optimization. He also supervises numerous commissioning and retro-commissioning projects, manages the implementation of PACRATTM, and oversees contract administration and project quality control/quality assurance.
Paul Ehrlich, P.E., a well-known industry stakeholder and advocate of sustainable and intelligent buildings. In 2004 he formed the Building Intelligence Group LLC an independent consultancy, whose primary purpose is to support and promote the delivery of high-performance buildings. Services include systems assessment, master planning, training, and design for intelligent and sustainable building systems with a focus is in the areas of integrated systems, facility operations, and enterprise management. Projects have been delivered for owners worldwide including major universities, corporations, and developers. Building Intelligence Group also provides market research and strategic planning services for leading system suppliers and organizations. Prior to forming Building Intelligence Group Paul held a series of corporate roles with Trane and Johnson Controls.
Carlos Santamaria is the Founder and Principal of CEES-Advisors. As the former Vice President of Engineering Services for Glenborough, LLC for the past eleven years, he strategically positioned the company as a leader in energy management and sustainability. Mr. Santamaria has worked in commercial real estate for over 25 years concentrating his work on building operations focusing on energy efficiency, building upgrades, construction and operational best practices. For over 20 years, Carlos has worked on some of the most successful “Deep Energy Retrofits” in the United States and abroad. As an industry leader, Mr. Santamaria is the Chair of the Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) International Energy & Environment Committee, a Board of Director and Chair of the BOMA California Energy Committee and a Steering Committee Chair Emeritus with the Department of Energy (DOE) Better Buildings Alliance Group.
Danny Murtagh is the Director of Engineering at Embarcadero Center for Boston Properties. Actively part of the team, participating in the development and construction of this new commercial office building at 415 Mission Street in San Francisco. The building also is now known as Salesforce Tower is located at First & Mission Street. This is a partnership between Boston Properties and Hines. Working on the physical due diligence and review for the partnership on the project and continue to perform in design and construction plan & submittal reviews as well as in a physical facilities oversight capacity during the construction of this project through to and including turn over to building operations which are expected to be Q1 of 2017.
David Petroff is a Senior Property Manager at Columbia Property Trust. Commercial Real Estate professional with extensive property management, leasing, construction, and operations experience with proven financial, managerial and people skills. Responsible for four Class A office properties located in Palo Alto, Pasadena, San Francisco, and Englewood, CO with over 40 tenants, and 1.8m SF. Assists new managers with building transitions and collaborates with Brokers, Asset Management, Tenants and attorneys on lease deals totaling 150,000 SF.Contributes to leasing forecasts and market evaluations and oversee construction management for TI’s totaling $5m and 300,000 SF. Responsible for all budgeting and financial reporting, and CAM Reconciliations along with supervising a staff of ten including PM’s engineering and security.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1204930. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.