I’ve written before about the special challenges of benchmarking lab buildings’ energy usage. It’s always been worth the extra effort, but I’m happy to report that we’ve finally made lab benchmarking a little bit easier. It’s my great pleasure to introduce the brand new Lab...
A few years ago, I helped put together an I2SL guide for facilities staff who find themselves conducting energy projects in lab buildings – a daunting prospect for many! The guide contained a host of strategies for helping retrofit projects proceed successfully and to the...
SkySpark collects and stores data from any number of sources and provides an open analytics platform that can be programmed to automatically make sense of the data and provide insights on a building or a portfolio of buildings. This open platform can be customized to a...
We recently worked with our Center for Energy Efficient Labs partners My Green Lab and Frontier Energy on an Emerging Technologies study funded jointly by the three California IOUs. The study involved testing the energy performance of modern, high-efficiency ultra-low temperature (ULT; -80C) lab freezers...
Energy benchmarking is often the first step in a new energy efficiency program or sustainable design project. Benchmarking helps us to prioritize and focus attention; it also provides useful metrics for target-setting or gauging progress. Lab buildings need benchmarking more than most. At first glance, the...