City of Seattle - Energy Benchmarking

Seattle’s Building Energy Benchmarking & Reporting Ordinance
Informational Forum for Energy Efficiency Service Providers
WHEN: August 11, 2011
FROM: 1:30 to 3:00 pm
WHERE: Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 5th Avenue,
Seattle Conference Room 4050/60 (40th Floor)

The Seattle Department of Planning and Development and the Northwest Energy Efficiency Council are hosting an informational forum on August 11, 2011 for energy service providers interested in learning more about the market opportunities being created by the City’s building energy benchmarking and reporting ordinance. Owners of more than 8,000 buildings throughout the city will be required to benchmark and report on the energy performance of their buildings over the next nine months. Although many will choose to do this work themselves, or will use in-house resources, many others may opt to turn to outside service providers for assistance with benchmarking and with identifying and implementing follow-on energy efficiency improvements.

Forum attendees will learn more about this new program, and will be able to provide input to staff on what the City of Seattle can do to help building owners find the trade ally resources they need.

Who should attend?
• ESCOs
• Energy efficiency consultants
• Energy auditors
• Mechanical/electrical contractors
• Individuals looking to enter the energy efficiency field

What do I need to know about the Building Energy Benchmarking Requirement?
• Why is Seattle requiring building energy benchmarking and reporting?
• Who does this requirement apply to?
• When do building owners need to comply?
• What do building owners need to do?
• What services are building owners likely to need?
• What will building owners do with the information they get from benchmarking?

REGISTRATION
Space is limited - please RSVP to:
Brittany@putnamprice.com

FOR MORE INFORMAT ION
Jayson Antonoff, Program Manager
PHONE: 206.386.9791
EMAIL: Jayson.Antonoff@seattle.gov
WEBSITE: www.seattle.gov/dpd/EnergyBenchmarking

NEEA - Better Bricks - City of Seattle

August 3, 2011

Energy Star Portfolio Manager Training

NEEA BetterBricks and the City of Seattle offer this FREE workshop for building owners, property managers and service providers to support compliance with the City of Seattle’s building energy benchmarking and disclosure ordinance. This hands-on session will teach you how to benchmark your building’s energy performance using the free on-line tool ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager. Participants will also learn about the ordinance reporting requirements and new services available for automated benchmarking from Seattle City Light, Puget Sound Energy and Seattle Steam. Registration required.

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
University of Washington
Mary Gates Hall, Room 044
Seattle, WA

ASHRAE - HVAC Design Essentials Workshop

Dear ASHRAE member:

You know who the “rising stars” are in your company. They are the engineers who show great promise, potential, interest and vigor in the HVAC industry. But how can you help them grow as leaders in your organization?

One way is through ASHRAE’s HVAC Design Essentials Workshop. Back by popular demand, this 3-day workshop provides intensive, practical training for professionals involved in the design, engineering, project coordination, and delivery of HVAC services and products. Participants will gain information and skills they can implement immediately in their jobs.
The workshop provides real-world examples of HVAC systems design including calculations of heating and cooling loads, system selection, basic design of hydronic and air systems, and much more. Participants will also network with industry leaders and ASHRAE Members from a variety of backgrounds and industry sectors. They will develop knowledgeable contacts to help them in their current positions.

The workshop takes place August 15-17, 2011 in Atlanta, GA, and seats are limited. The newly renovated ASHRAE Headquarters will be used as a “living laboratory” during the workshop, allowing participants to see the actual plans and operations of a high performance building.

You can take advantage of this fantastic opportunity by sponsoring one or more of your employees to attend the workshop. Your gift of “recognition” will be returned to you in the form of a well-trained staff member. What a great investment in the growth of your company!

Please forward this information to anyone else who might be interested.

If you have questions or would like more details about the workshop, visit www.ashrae.org/hvacdesign or send an email to learninginstitute@ashrae.org.

Best regards,

Filza H. Walters
Chair, Professional Development Committee







ASHRAE
Advancing HVAC&R to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world
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International Living Building Institute

The Living Building Challenge is attempting to raise the bar. It defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today and acts to diminish the gap between current limits and ideal solutions. This certification program covers all building at all scales and is a unified tool for
transformative design, allowing us to envision a future that is Socially Just, Culturally Rich and Ecologically Benign™.

Learn more about Living Building Challenge and register:
www.ilbi.org/workshop

Association of Energy Engineers - May Meeting

Please join us May 19th at Edmonds Community College where 1) their Facility Director will give us a review of the conservation measures they have implemented at the College and 2) you will learn about all of the continuing education opportunities in energy management & sustainability planning that various colleges offer throughout the Pacific NW. This meeting is being hosted by the students of EdCC's Energy Management courses and will provide all attendees a chance to talk about what is being offered in energy & sustainability, as well as a chance to give feedback into what you would like offered.

For this meeting we are specially inviting all existing students of any college/university by providing this informative dinner-meeting to them for FREE! Local AEE members cost is $20 and non-members is $30.

A full-service taco bar will be provided.

You must pre-register for this event by going to http://www.aeepnwc.com/ and clicking on “Read More”.

When: May 19th, 6:00 PM
Where: Edmonds Community College, Woodway Building, Room 2020

LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE

The International Living Building Institute is offering a seminar to help you enhance your awareness of the Living Building Challenge. Click on the image below to access more information and to register for this seminar.

ASHRAE's HVAC Design Essentials

For 'real-world HVAC Design skills you can use today' click on the image below:

USGBC Transformational Lecture

On Tuesday, March 8, 5:30-7pm, we'll host Arthur C. Nelson for a Transformational Lecture in Seattle. Dr. Nelson is a Presidential Professor of City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah and has over thirty years of experience in growth management, urban containment, public facility finance, economic development and metropolitan development patterns. He'll share a ten-year forecast of the housing market and how dramatic market shifts will impact the building industry.

Learn more about the lecture and register here: http://cascadiagbc.org/events/2011/march/transformational-lecture-series-seattle-featuring-arthur-nelson

Our Transformational Lecture Series is designed to keep building professionals informed about the leading edge of green building thought and practice. The lectures inspire our audiences to reach for ambitious levels of performance in all projects. At the same time, these lectures are practical, focused on actionable ideas and techniques. And just in case you need another reason to join us, our lectures quality for LEED Continuing Education hours. Learn more: http://cascadiagbc.org/education/transformational-lecture-series-2010/tls-earn-ce-hours

I hope to see you!

Best regards,

Joel SisolakLEED AP
Advocacy & Outreach Director

410 Occidental Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98104
t: 206.223.2028 f: 206.260.2450
www.cascadiagbc.org

NEEC - Free Webinar

WSU Energy Extension Program is hosting a complimentary webinar on March 2, 2011 from 11:00 AM until Noon(ish) for a complimentary webinar training. The theme is Key Facility Solutions in the Great Recession, and it will highlight top-flight experts who have made great things happen. With absolutely no cost attached, there’s no reason not to register.

Register for the complimentary webinar training online.

This webinar also serves as a teaser for the upcoming Energy/Facilities Connections Conference to be held May 11-13, 2011. Contact the EFC Planning Team, or visit the EFC 2011 page for more information.

Brittany Price
Northwest Energy Efficiency Council
605 1st Ave, Ste 401
Seattle, WA 98104
p: 206-624-7570
f: 206-292-4125
http://www.neec.net/

Tour & Andersson - Hydronic College

The Tour & Andersson Hydronic College will present the seminar "The Three Hydronic Conditions" in Seattle on February 9th, from 2-8 p.m. at the Columbia Tower Club. The TA Hydronic College has been an education resource for hydronic engineering in Europe and other world markets, attended by over 3,000 design and facility engineers annually. In 2010, TA began presenting the seminars in North America, in concert with Victaulic. The seminar is free, and is presented vendor-neutral. Certificates of Attendance are provided for PDH. Seminar attendees will receive complimentary dinner and refreshments, and a copy of the reference book "Total Hydronic Balancing" by Robert Petitjean. To register or learn more about the seminars, go to http://www.tahydroniccollege.com/ .

Cascadia Green Building Council -Transformation Lecture Series

Transformational Lecture Series (Seattle) featuring Timothy Beatley

Topic: Green Urbanism and Community Scale Sustainability

When: November 09, 2010 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM

Where: Seattle Central Library, Microsoft Auditorium, 1000 Fourth Ave. Seattle, WA 98104

Contact: Joyce Shen joyce.shen@cascadiagbc.org 1-604-909-9559















Speaker: Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, University of Virginia

Bio: Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for the last eighteen years. His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, with special emphasis on coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. In recent years much of his research and writing has been focused on the subject of sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can fundamentally reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places.

He has published extensively in these areas, including his new book Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning and the following recent books: Planning for Coastal Resilience (Island Press, 2009); Resilient Cities (Island Press, 2008); Green Urbanism Down Under: Learning from Sustainable Communities in Australia (Island Press, 2008); Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age (Island Press, 2005); Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities (Island Press, 1999); The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community (Island Press, 1997); Ethical Land Use (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth (University of Texas Press, 1994); Natural Hazard Mitigation (Island Press, 1999, with David Godschalk and others); and An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management (Island Press, 2002, Second Edition, with David Brower and Anna Schwab)

Doors open at 5:00PM, Lecture begins at 5:30PM

Cost: Cascadia Members and students; Free (RSVP MANDATORY)
General Audience; $10

Click here to Register Now

The Transformational Lecture Series aims to inspire all building industry professionals to embrace their role in creating as sustainable built environment now, as well as ensuring that sustainability becomes integral to all development in the future. Taking the lead from the Living Future 2010 tag line, “Hope: Revaluing Community,” Oregon’s Transformational Lecture Series will establish a through-line for revaluing the greater community of Oregon by addressing the enormous challenges confronting the state of Oregon and the importance of moving to a more self-sufficient economy for a secure and sustainable future. In an effort to both reduce cost and carbon emissions, and to inspire the local community, most speakers are notable local heroes and reside in the Pacific Northwest.

AIA Seattle - BIM Sharing Agreements

BIM Sharing Agreements
How to overcome your reluctance to share

Do you have the contract you need to share your BIM files in the new collaborative design/construction business model?


Then join the AIA Seattle Practice and Ethics Committee and their guest speakers to discuss the common reluctance to share BIM files, and if BIM sharing agreements can overcome copyright and liability concerns.

Round table discussion guest speakers will include:

Grace Han Stanton, partner with Perkins Coie, focusing on copyright law,
C. Scott Penner, principal at Carney Badley Spellman P.S., focusing on design professional’s defense.
Tom Owens, principal and general counsel with NBBJ, focusing on IPD and BIM agreements.
Ron Rochon AIA, LEED AP partner at The Miller/Hill Partnership focusing on BIM sharing.
Dace Campbell AIA LEED AP with BN Builders focusing on integrated delivery.
Morgan West Jr., executive vice president at Kibble & Prentice Inc., focusing on professional liability insurance.

We will combine an architect, contractor, and in house counsel who are sharing BIM files today with attorneys who specialize in copyright and design professional defense and a professional liability insurance agent to give you a complete status report of what is going on with BIM file sharing. You will find out why the existing BIM file sharing agreements from the AIA and ConsensusDocs do or don’t work for your firm and your project, what you need to add or change, and how to talk with your attorney to feel comfortable about sharing your BIM files.

For date, time, location and registration go to:

http://www.aiaseattle.org/node/4806

CLIMATE ANALYSIS - Education Series

CLIMATE ANALYSIS FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

ASHRAE Puget Sound, AIA Seattle, the Integrated Design Lab in Partnership with BetterBricks are offering an education series this fall to provide a deeper level of understanding about the key topic of climate analysis. For more information and registration click on the image below.

Living Building Challenge Road Show

Cascadia Region Green Building Council is presenting their upcoming Living Building Challenge Road Show being held in Seattle, May 5th. We would like to offer members of the Puget Sound ASHRAE a 10% discount to the event.

This full day workshop will share the tenets of the Living Building Challenge, highlight resources and design strategies, and address the various perceived barriers and incentives related to high performance design.

Workshop attendees are entitled to a one-year membership into the Living Building Community. This on-line resource offers direct engagement with professionals currently working on Living Building Challenge projects, as well as the authors of the performance standard. Community members have access to the User's Guide, which includes the technical information and documentation requirements necessary to strive towards certification.
The tenets of Living Building Challenge include net zero energy and net zero water. The Standard addresses limits to growth and urban agriculture, biophilia and toxic-free environments. It includes requirements on social equity and beauty, with an emphasis on inspiration and education to promote the rapid advancement of true sustainability in our built environment.
If these ideas interest you to learn more and inspire you to lead the way in your community, please join us for this cutting-edge educational opportunity.

Includes:
- Instruction from expert faculty
- FREE one-year membership in the Living Building Community ($125 value)
- Continental breakfast and lunch provided
- Approved for 6 AIA Learning Units
- Approved for 6 GBCI Continuing Ed Hours

Learning Objectives:
- Identify the key components of the Living Building Challenge
- Describe the Living Building Challenge community resources and certification process
- Discuss the rationale for restorative design principles
- Understand successful strategies for compliance with each performance area (Site, Water, Energy, Health, Materials, Equity, and Beauty)
- Recognize financial, regulatory and behavioral barriers and incentives related to high performance design

Logistics:
Date: May 5th, 2010
Time: 8:30am - 3:30 pm
Place: The Vashon Room at The Westin Hotel, 1900 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
Cost: $345 non-members
$310 members of Partner organizations (this means your membership!)
$295 ILBI community members
$230 if you are attending our Living Future unConference May 5 - 7th!

For more information: www.ilbi.org/roadshow

Living Future 2010 www.cascadiagbc.org/living-future/10

ENERGY FUTURE

Energy Production, Consumption, Policy, and the

Environment

Public Lecture Series: http://courses.washington.edu/efuture

The coming decades will see dramatic changes in the production, consumption, and overall availability of energy. This free UW public lecture series will bring world-leading experts address many of the core technical, social, economic, and political issues and opportunities which will accompany the forthcoming transition to renewable energy.

April Lectures (Kane 130 at the UW, starting at 6:30 pm):

April 1: Plastic Solar Cells? Challenges and Opportunities for Photovoltaics
David Ginger (UW Chemistry Department)

April 20: Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
David J.C. MacKay (Cambridge University and Chief Science Advisor to the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change)

For the full schedule of speakers and descriptions of the their lectures, see http://courses.washington.edu/efuture

Questions? Contact efuture@uw.edu.

Energy Future is sponsored by the University of Washington, the Office of the Provost, the Applied Physics Lab, the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and the Environment, the Evans School of Public Affairs, the Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology, the NSF Science and Technology Center for Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research, the NSF Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis, and the UW Department of Physics. They all care about energy. You should, too.

AIA Seattle Presents:

Subject: IPD; The Lean Machine - Children’s Hospital Case Study
Date: March 26, 2010, 9:00 – 12:00
Location: Sellen Construction, 227 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle
Admission: $5 for AIA members and $20 for nonmembers
Registration: http://www.aiaseattle.org/node/3976

Credits: 3 LU’s

Learn from one of the few teams in the country that has participated in an IPD project using a lean process; Seattle Children’s Hospital new outpatient facility.
The AIA Seattle Practice and Ethics Committee invite you to join;

Jeff Giuzio, Owner’s representative from The Seneca Real Estate Group
Brian Zeallear, Architect from NBBJ
Jack Avery, Contractor from Sellen Construction Company
Dean Eriksen, Mechanical Engineer from AEI Engineers
Dean Peterson, Mechanical subcontractor from University Mechanical

The guests will detail their use of lean principles in the design and construction of Children’s Hospital Outpatient facility, including how they used the process to achieved LEED certification and present ideas on how the process can be transferred to smaller projects and firms.

The seminar will achieve the following learning objectives;

1. Understand the fundamental difference between IPD and the traditional “design-bid-build” model.
2. Learn the relationship between lean project delivery and relationship contracts (multi-party).
3. Identify the core transferrable processes in IPD, including how to design the right level of IPD for you.
4. Provide ideas for steps that can be taken now to prepare your firm for the IPD future.

AIA SEATTLE COTE MEETING

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

4-5pm at AIA Seattle

Agenda:

* What Makes It Green 2010 planning update
* Seattle Energy Code proposed updates with John Hogan, City of Seattle (We encourage you to review the attached document and attend our meeting or one of the meetings below to learn more and provide input on this important update to the energy code. See below for more information.)
* Other ongoing activity updates

Please join us. New members always welcome.

Also, if you haven't already joined, register for our Google group for up-to-date communications of COTE's most recent activities

http://groups.google.com/group/aia-seattle-cote


Carl Dominguez and David Mount
AIA Seattle COTE Co-chairs

From ASHRAE Society:

Existing Buildings in Urban Areas:

Dramatically Cutting the Energy Waste

April 19-20, 2010
Grand Hyatt • New York, NY

For more information go to:

http://www.ashrae.org/events/page/2473

AIA+2030 Professional Series

Register today for:










AIA+2030 Professional Series
Prepare your firm and your career for the new energy frontier! The AIA+2030 Professional Series is a national pilot program endorsed by Architecture 2030 to help design professionals create buildings that meet the ambitious energy efficiency goals of the 2030 Challenge.

The series of ten, four-hour sessions offer strategies to reach 50% reduction in fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions, giving design professionals the knowledge and leverage to create next-generation, super-efficient buildings and provide firms with the skills that will set them apart in the marketplace.*

TIME: Sessions are 8:30AM-12:30PM

LOCATION: Seattle City Hall's Bertha Knight Landes Room.**

COST:

$800 AIA members
$400 AIA associates
$1,200 Non-members

COLLABORATOR SPECIAL
Do you work with an AIA member or Associate? When an AIA member or Associate refers their engineer, that engineer can sign up at the AIA member price! One referral allowed per AIA member.

TO REGISTER, CLICK HERE.

Registration is for the entire series only. Payment plans and a limited number of scholarships and are available. For more information on scholarship availability, contact Danielle Henderson.

SERIES SCHEDULE (click title for full description):

February 5, 2010** The 2030 Challenge: setting + achieving energy goals with integrated design
March 5, 2010 Getting to 50: the power of targets + load reduction
April 2, 2010 Accentuate the positive: climate responsive design
April 30 , 2010 Skins: the importance of the thermal envelope
June 4, 2010 Passively aggressive: employing passive systems for load reduction
June 25, 2010 Illuminating savings: daylighting and integrated lighting strategies
July 23, 2010 Right-sized: equipment and controls for super-efficient building system
September 10, 2010 Site power: renewable energy opportunities
October 8, 2010 The hand-off + staying in shape: operations, maintenance + education
October 29, 2010 Putting it all together: achieving 2030 goals on the project and at the office

*This series is an encore of Series 1, which is still in session.
**The first class is being held in the Seattle Central Library. All others are being held at Seattle City Hall, in the Bertha Knight Landes Room.


Many thanks to our Founding Partners:






Thanks also in part to our AIA + 2030 Professional Series II sponsors:

DAYLIGHTING DESIGN

for Large Office Buildings and Multi-family Towers

A seminar for developers, architects, and engineers,
by

Christopher Meek, AIA Tom Marseille, P.E.
Daylighting Lab Director Principal
The Integrated Design Lab Stantec Engineers, Inc.

October 9, 2009
10:00 to 3:00, includes lunch

The Bertha Landes Room
Seattle City Hall, 600 5th Avenue, Seattle

Use of natural light for interior illumination has been integral to architecture since before the time of the Romans, but the field continues to evolve. Daylighting design challenges and stimulates us as it brings together the worlds of aesthetics, function, and energy efficiency, at the interface between nature and man-made environments.
This seminar examines daylighting from multiple angles, presenting basic design principles illustrated by examples from history and some of the most recent construction. Because daylighting is intrinsically interdisciplinary, information about new technologies and analytical tools are pulled from several branches of design. Tom Marseille will address the interface between daylighting and overall energy consumption for heating, cooling and lighting. Topics will include actuated interior and exterior shades, and daylighting controls.
Registration:

For registration and more information, visit
http://www.daylighting.eventbrite.com
www.daylighting.eventbrite.com.
The cost of the seminar is $30 including lunch.
~ Please Register Before October 5th. ~

Sponsored by the Integrated Design Lab, Seattle City Light, Stantec, and Better Bricks