ASHRAE Focuses on Role of Operation & Maintenance in Achieving Net-Zero-Energy Buildings
December 4, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. (ASHRAE) will highlight the role of operation and maintenance (O&M) in achieving net-zero-energy buildings during a two-part seminar at the ASHRAE 2008 Winter Meeting, Net-Zero Energy Buildings: The Impact of O&M Practices?
The event will take place from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. on Jan. 22, at the New York Hilton.
High-performance and net-zero-energy buildings were identified as performance targets by ASHRAE, federal governments and other organizations.
Much of the work to date toward these targets focused on the design of such buildings, but according to ASHRAE, commissioning, operation and maintenance are just as critical to achieving actual net-zero-energy performance as design.
"The seminar shows us how we are slowly learning to procure buildings for use, not just to look beautiful and meet theoretical design-as-an-end criteria," said Richard Rooley, chair of the seminar, which is sponsored by the ASHRAE technical committee on operation and maintenance management.
Other sessions in the technical program focusing on net-zero energy buildings include:
- How to Model Nothing: Energy Simulations of Net-Zero Energy Buildings: Part 1 and 2.
- Long Term Data Center Planning: the Push Toward Net-Zero Energy and Other Considerations.
- Net-Zero Buildings: Will Energy Storage Be Essential.
- Thermoeconomics of Net-Zero Design.
- Exergy Analysis 2: Exergy Efficient Design, Analysis and Rating for Net-Zero Energy Buildings, Part 1.
- Exergy Analysis 3: Advanced Applications for New Heights in Net-Zero Energy Buildings.
- Zero Energy Buildings of the Future: Is it Time to Define Resource Energy Efficiency and Apply it to Buildings in the Future.
- How Low Can You Go? Case Studies of Low-Energy Buildings.
- How Do You Connect Your Net-Zero Building to the Grid.
- What Defines a Net-Zero Energy Building.
- Low- and Zero-Carbon Cities of the Future.
- Performance Monitoring to Achieve Net-Zero Energy.
Additional information about the ASHRAE meeting, Jan. 19-23, is available on the ASHRAE web site at http://www.ashrae.org/newyork.
Source: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. (ASHRAE).