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NC-2009 EAc3:Enhanced Commissioning

(Jacob) Labs and Other Energy Intense Areas to be Included?

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Brett Beckemeyer
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My current project contains a non-manufacturing lab and research facility. The entire lab and research facilities probably incorporate a large portion of the buildings overall power consumption. Since the company that owns the facility will be the main dictator of the power use in these areas and it is fundamentally necessary they be allowed to use the amount of energy to continue their business, does the enhance commissioning agent need to monitor these systems? Additionally, am I correct in understanding that these spaces do not need to be included for EAc1 as part of Optimize Energy?

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Fri, 05/03/2013 - 12:24

Why wouldn't you commission these systems? Or are you posting in the wrong forum? For EAc3: commission your special lab/research systems especially fume hoods, critical power systems and safety systems. For EAc1: my limited understanding is that all the power systems would need to be accounted for in the baseline and the design case. For these systems, the design and baseline cases would be equal and effectively zero out. They still must be accounted for however. Go to the EAc1 forum and read everything Marcus Schaeffer writes.
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Brett Beckemeyer
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Fri, 05/03/2013 - 13:27

No this is the forum I intended to post to. I was simply looking for clarification. In my mind it seems that if an energy load is demanded by an organization in order to operate in the capacity they need to run their business it should not be considered in a whole building performance (clearly I'm mistaken). I just don't understand how a company that creates electrical transformers can be asked to save energy when the basis of their company is using that energy to find energy saving switches of the future? I'll read Marcus' post.

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