Webinar: Real Green: Why To Track Performance in your Buildings

Tracking Performance in Your Buildings: Why Bother?

Jim Newman Principal, Linnean Solu4ons [email protected] Audi4ng and Monitoring of Integrated Environmental Performance

Jim Newman Principal, Linnean Solu4ons [email protected] Audi4ng and Monitoring of Integrated Environmental Performance

What We Know That Performance MaFers

Actual resource use is more important than “expected” use.

•  Knowing what we expect from our buildings is important and useful. •  Actual energy, water, and purchasing are more important. •  InformaFon on actual use seems harder to get.

Performance is Taking Center Stage LEED Building Performance Partnership Performance ReporFng

AIA 2030 Commitment ReporFng

AIA 2030 Commitment Annual Report

0 Design Work

Predicted EUI Project Modeling Use Data To Be

Collected LPD Analysis

Current 2030 PEUI Reduc4on Goal #N/A

LPD Reduc4on Goal 25.0%

Firm PEUI % Reduc4on from Average EUI #DIV/0!

GSF of Ac4ve Project

s GSF Firm % LPD Reduc4on from ASHRAE 90.1 2007 #DIV/0!

GSF of Ac4ve Projects 0

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GSF of Ac4ve Projects 0

% GSF of Ac4ve Projects mee4ng current goal #N/A

Not Modeled 0

Data will not be collected 0

% GSF of Ac4ve Projects mee4ng current goal #DIV/0!

What We are Star4ng to Know

Building operaFons have a stronger effect than design

InnovaFve changes come from within an organizaFon

What We are Star4ng to Know Building operaFons have a stronger effect than design


What Does This Mean for Me? Performance tracking supports continuous improvement

For Designers For Owners For Building Users

Today’s Agenda

1. What are your steps in a general process to track environmental performance

2.  Poten4al environmental inputs, outputs, and report metrics

3.  Examples 4. Who needs to see what informa4on – What do

YOU need to know?

Hit List Implementa4on

Automate Report Card and set Access Across Organiza4on

Create Environmental Report Card

Evaluate Data and Create a Hit List

Collect and Manage Data

Evaluate Current Performance and Define Benchmarks

Set Goals Rela4ve to Organiza4on Requirements

A Performance Tracking Project Plan

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4


Phase 1 Evaluate Current Performance and Define Benchmarks

Set Goals Rela4ve to Organiza4on Requirements

Seing the Context Define organiza4onal environmental goals. Find exis4ng data sources. Look at other, similar organiza4ons for performance benchmarks.


Phase 2

Geing and Evalua4ng Data Some data collec4on can be automated (like energy data) and some will need to be collected manually. Link data with dollars. Evaluate the data, looking for obvious resource-‐saving ac4ons.

Evaluate Data and Create a Hit List

Collect and Manage Data


Phase 3

Repor4ng Informa4on Define who your target is for this informa4on. Create a set of reports for your primary targets. Find the right tools to automate data collec4on. Deploy the tools to automa4cally gather and process data.

Automate Report Card and set

Create Environmental Report Card


Phase 4

Make Changes, Track Progress Use the environmental performance informa4on to find the richest targets for ac4on. Implement the defined ac4ons. Watch and learn what works.

Hit List Implementa4on

An Amount, Flow, or Snapshot

A Denominator

A Metric

Environmental Impacts What is a Metric?

Can You Tie This to The Organiza4on’s Mission?

An Amount, Flow, or Snapshot

• KWh • Gal. of Water • Lb or $ of Material • Outside Tempera4re

• Toxins in Waterway

• Number of Faculty/Staff

• # of Trees

• # of Animal/Plant Species

A Denominator • Time

• Square Ft. of Building

• Number of Students

• Number of Faculty/Staff

• Acre of Campus

• Total Weight

• # of Degrees/Course Hours

• $ of Spending

Metrics • Energy Use per Campus User

• Energy Use per SqFt of Building

• Potable Water Use per Campus User

• Degree Days

• Waste Cost per Total Weight

• Storm Water Runoff per Acre of campus

• Staff Produc4vity by Building

• Energy per Student Degree

• Local Farm and Business Support per Total Spending

Environmental Impacts What is a Metric?

Energy Use Trends – Design Verifica4on

Report Card • Energy Use per Occupant

• GHG Emissions per Occupant

• Potable Water Use per Occupant

• Waste Cost per Waste Type

• Storm Water Runoff per Acre

• Overall Produc4vity

• Overall U4liza4on of Space

• Local Farm and Business Support

Environmental Impacts Example Residen4al Data

Energy Use Trends – Ac4on Planning










Energy Use Trends – Implementa4on Tracking










Waste Type Weight vs Cost

Environmental Impacts Internal Ins4tu4onal Repor4ng

Waste Hauler Bills

Compost Team

Recycling Service

Hazardous Waste Services

Regulated Waste Services

Data from all facili4es

Waste Type Weight and Cost by Month

Monthly Scorecard and

Trends

Bills may be electronic or not Aggrega4on is new

Presented for decision-‐makers

Waste Type Weight vs Cost


This is rela4vely easy data to gather.

Water Quality Effect of Stormwater


Waterway Samples

Local Rainfall

Campus Ouplow Samples

Data from mul4ple loca4ons

VOC s and Nitrates by Month

Monthly Scorecard and

Trends

Requires exper4se to structure this data correctly

Presented for decision-‐makers

Tes4ng Lab

Water Quality Effect of Stormwater


This is rela4vely hard data to gather.

But Who Wants to Know?

Do you, as a designer, want to learn about how effec4ve your design strategies are?

Do you, as the building owner want to know how

close you are geing to a net zero campus?

Do you, as the VP of Facili4es, want to know where to concentrate your aFen4on to sa4sfy the CEO and

Board?

Environmental Impacts

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Environmental Impacts

What Do We Know ?

Actual resource use is more important than “expected” use. Building operaFons have a stronger effect than design


What Does This Mean for Me ?

A Chance to Have a Huge Impact on Resource Use and Facility Value

What Does This Mean for Me ?

Define Relevant Metrics Before StarFng Design Use Metrics to Guide Design

Set up Tracking in Building OperaFon

Jim Newman Principal, Linnean Solu4ons [email protected]

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