Show Me the Data: Cannon Design Environmental Awareness Week 2012
1. Show Me the Data:
How transparency for building energy use is
transforming our cities
Cliff Majersik
Institute for Market Transformation (IMT)
Cannon Design
October 22, 2012
2. Background on IMT
is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization
The Institute for Market Transformation (IMT)
promoting energy efficiency, green building, and
environmental protection in the United States and
abroad. IMT’s work addresses market failures that
inhibit investment in energy efficiency and
sustainability in the building sector.
Building Energy Performance Policy
Building Energy Codes – Compliance
Energy Efficiency Financing –
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Commercial and Residential
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Green Leasing
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3. Why Energy Efficiency Matters
Market transformation is a strategic
process of market intervention which
aims to remove barriers, leverage
opportunities and internalize the value
of energy efficiency as a matter of
standard practice.
What Is Market Transformation?
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Building Energy Rating and Disclosure
7. Rating Laws: International Timeline
2004: Norway, 2010: EPBD Recast
part of the European
The EPBD is recast to
Economic Area, formally
strengthen the energy
agrees to implement the 2007: Brazil adopts voluntary performance
EPBD and building
1997: Denmark building rating regulations that requirements for all EU
certification requirements
requires energy become mandatory in 2012 Member States and to
certification for clarify and streamline
homes and provisions from the
buildings original Directive
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
2002: 2008: China
Energy Performance adopts a
mandatory
of Buildings Directive energy rating
(EPBD) EU Member program for
States are required to government 2010: Australia
establish mandatory energy buildings. passes the Building
certification schemes Energy Efficiency
for all homes and buildings Disclosure Act
requiring energy
performance
disclosure for
commercial buildings
at point of sale or
lease
8. “When performance is measured, performance
improves. When performance is measured and
A Virtuous Cycle reported back, the rate of improvement
accelerates.”
2.Market compares
building performance
1.Building ratings
disclosed to market
5.Efficiency
of buildings
continuously
improves
3. Market
4.Owners rewards
improve efficiency efficient
to stay competitive buildings
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10. • Free, Online Tool
ENERGY STAR • Track Record since 1999
Portfolio Manager • Management Tool
– Assess whole building energy
and water consumption
– Track change in energy,
water, carbon emissions, &
cost over time
– Track green power purchases
– Share/report data with
others
– Create custom reports
– Apply for ENERGY STAR
certification
www.energystar.gov/benchmark – Apples-to-apples comparison
with similar buildings
11. • Metrics Calculator
ENERGY STAR – Energy consumption (source,
site, weather normalized)
Portfolio Manager – Water consumption
– Greenhouse gas emissions
(indirect, direct, total,
avoided)
– ENERGY STAR 1-to-100 score
• For 15 building types
• 75+ for Energy Star label
• Required data
– Square feet by space type
– Space Use Attributes
– Zip Code
– 12 months of Utility Data
13. Through 2011, nearly
16,500 ENERGY STAR Certified
buildings
• Saved nearly $2.3 billion in
energy costs annually
• Reduced the equivalent of
12 Million Metric Tons of
CO2 a year
Equivalent to the emissions
from electric use of over 1.5
million homes
15. Policy Impact
Approximately 4 billion square feet
More than 3x the floor area of every Walmart, Target, Home Depot,
Barnes & Noble and Costco store in America
17. New York New York City
Requires annual
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City
benchmarking and
public disclosure,
periodic audits and
RCx, lighting retrofits
and submetering in
large commercial
and multifamily
buildings
• May 1, 2012: Second
deadline for private
buildings reporting
• September 2012:
Individual building
ratings published
18. If all comparatively inefficient
large buildings were brought
up to the median EUI, NYC
•
could reduce energy
consumption in large
buildings by roughly 18%
and GHG emissions by 20%.
• Newer office buildings in
NYC tend to use more
energy per square foot than
older ones.
The Numbers Are In
19.
20. DC Benchmarking: Publication of Results
• Benchmark results will be made public in 2nd reporting year
• Results will be reported on the DDOE website
(www.ddoe.dc.gov)
Address Year Built
Energy Performance Rating (1-100) Energy Intensity
Electricity Use Natural Gas Use
Water Use CO2 Emissions
Space Type Gross Building Area
21. Target Finder for New DC Buildings
• DC Energy Act requires projects over 50,000 sq. ft. that submit
1st building permit after January 1, 2012 to model their energy
performance using the ENERGY STAR Target Finder Tool and
report results to the District
• Results will be made public online alongside benchmarks
Energy models disclosed along with benchmarking results
will create the “feedback loop” connecting design and
performance that will drive energy efficiency higher
22. Benchmarking Guides Investment
Survey of hundreds of facility managers .
Audin, Lindsay. “Finding Your Best Energy Opportunity.”
Building Operating Management. December 2011.
23. Jobs: First Wave in Energy Services
“As a Silicon Valley venture capitalist … I tell our green startup
companies to focus on San Francisco or New York City. That’s
where the action is going to be.”
- Elton Sherwin, venture capitalist, senior managing director,
Ridgewood Capital
“Over the past year, we have begun working with over 75 million
square feet of real estate in New York and over 400 new clients.”
- Lindsay Napor McLean, COO, Ecological
“When an owner sees a benchmarking score that is lower than
expected, they’re a little more receptive to improvements to
bring the score up, which in turn lowers their utility costs.”
- Kevin Dingle, president, Sustaining Structures
24. Management gurus who
Benchmarking
write airport books aren’t
and audits/RCx
great writers, but their
compliance
jargon has seeped into
“leverage
our culture anyway. Some
”
of their buzz words have
already become clichéd.
Sustainability / They can make the user
green building Opportunities for A/E firms he
sound pretentious, as if
consulting or she thinks the jargon
“synergy”
term sounds “smarter”
than the common
equivalent. (It doesn’t.)
Retrofits and
“impactful” renovations
26. Get your local “Architects? Are you
New York
AIA and/or listening? This is big. You
•
USGBC chapter need to be fully up to
City
involved speed with benchmarking
… and convinced that it
spells win-win-win for
• Coalition- everyone.
building is key
…it’s easy to imagine the
• If you have deep-energy-retrofit work
this change may produce.”
clients who
benchmark, see -Mike Davis, FAIA, incoming president of the Boston
if they’ll vouch Society of Architects
for benefits of
benchmarking
Writing in IMT’s blog,
The Current
27. Energy Star Buildings Command Market Premiums
Added Value of ENERGY STAR-Labeled
Commercial Buildings in the U.S. Market
28. Management gurus who
Benchmarking write airport books aren’t
Helping appraisers assess the value of
efficiency compliance great writers, but their
jargon has seeped into
our culture anyway. Some
of their buzz words have
already become clichéd.
May 2012: IMT and
the Appraisal They can make the user
Institute present sound pretentious, as if he
both statistical or she thinks the jargon
“synergy”
data and case- term sounds “smarter”
than the common
of how buyers and
equivalent. (It doesn’t.)
study summaries
renters place value
on energy and
Retrofit
renovation
performance and
green building.
30. • Widespread benchmarking should lead to
more realistic assumptions in energy
models
• In the future, energy models will inform
building design more
31. Benchmarking and Energy Codes
• Benchmarking will provide
volumes of data about how
buildings new and old
perform. Codes, though
increasingly stringent, are
based on assumptions, not
performance data.
• Benchmarking data will inform the process of
developing better codes for buildings that
perform better in actual operations, not just in
theory.
