Happy Thursday, all!
I will be presenting with my colleague, Emily Hoffman, and our counterpart from Seattle, Duane Jonlin, on how firms can contribute more to aggressive energy and carbon targets, from the perspective of three people that see thousands of projects each year. We see the best and the worst, and we're convinced that our codes are not serving us as well as they should. That's what the three of us spend our time on each day.
We'd like to feature a few buildings in some exercises, and we're looking for great examples of energy-efficient projects with the following specifics: a project that saves energy/money as a result of a terrific integrated design effort; a project that increases resiliency of a building (with a description of how the risk-remediation was a selling point for the owner); and a project that goes the extra mile to promote/protect the health and wellness of your occupants. For each, we want to be able to share the predicted EUI or a measured EUI, and what code was applicable. We will need a lovely image that you can give us permission to use (with credit, of course). As we are code officials, we are avoiding highlighting projects in our own cities, unless they are within the municipal portfolio, so that we don't create any perceived conflict of interests (we can't play favorites and can't pick on anyone, even if we want to pick on the really BAD buildings that we see). And, if you are interested in doing something different, we also are looking for examples of projects where something prevented you from achieving those goals, if you can share the image, the story, and the EUI (what killed your idea and what was the performance outcome of that?). A good example is the great and informative story that was recently shared by Kieran Timberlake on their own attempt to passively cool their office, which was a failure, but taught them a lot. Of course, we'll credit you for the contribution.
We don't design our own projects anymore, though all three of us came from the private sector and have lots of stories we could share from our past. And, for anyone that contributes or wants to see what comes of this, we present at 10:30am on Friday, June 22. It's session FR505- Breaking the Energy Performance Logjam: What Firms Can Do Today. (Or- the story as told by three grump energy code officials) :)
Crossing my fingers for some willing participants!
Have a great day, all!
Gina Bocra
gbocra@buildings.nyc.gov
