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Base line of energy assessment
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Office Energy Audit: Best Practices in Workplace Assessment
1. Office Energy Audit
Best Practices in Workplace Assessment
Morgan King Tessa Salzman
Campus Lead Cal Poly SLO
Morgan@seiinc.org tessajsalzman@gmail.com
2. What’s on tap for today
• Workplace Audit Process
– Tools and Techniques
– Fostering Adoption of Recommendations
• Model Workplace Assessment Campaigns
– Cal Poly SLO and Yale
• Office Walk-through
3. Words of Wisdom
• The actual audit is only a small piece of the pie
• Invest time in forging partnerships
• Find the levers
– Alignment with campus policy, cost savings for department, improved
comfort, etc.
• Communication is critical
– Staff must understand and be motivated
• Foster adoption of identified measures
– Community Based Social Marketing (CBSM) Techniques
– Install SMART STRIPs, CFLs, enable sleep modes, etc.
• Follow-up is critical
• ???
4. General Process
Energy
Savings/
Behavior
Change
Present Follow-up
Report/CBSM/Work
orders
Develop
Report
Conduct Audit
Cultivate Workplace
Relationships
Find partners and
levers
5. Energy Focus Areas
Focus Area Assessment Tools EE Measures
Inspect heating/cooling
Air sealing, insulation improvements,
equipment, distribution
IR thermometer, thermostat settings, window
system, system balance,
Heating/Cooling Thermal Leak treatments,reduce internal heat gains
thermostats, leaks in
Detector (cooling), smaller/more efficient
envelope, building envelope
equipment
upgrades
Inspect water heating
Lower temperature set-point,
Water Heating and equipment (e.g. boilers),
Thermometer insulate, pipe wrap, heat trap, low
Cooling pipes, fixtures, controls, usage
flow fixtures
behaviors
Energy Star upgrade, remove
Inspect plug-in equipment,
redundancy, unplugging, (smart)
Plug Loads phantom loads, usage Watt meter
power strips, plug miser controls,
behaviors
enable sleep modes
Inspect age/type of lighting, Flicker Checker,
Lighting Retrofit, task Lighting,
Lighting light intensity, lighting Ballast Checker,
lighting Controls, de-lamping
controls, usage behavior Light meter
7. Green Campus Certified:
Cal Poly SLO Workplace Assessment
• What is it?
• Modeled after LEED Certified
• Pick workplace to audit
• Establish “Sustainability Mentor”
• Check Prerequisites
• Run audit + Interviews
8. Facilities Audit
• Pilot Audit
• Savings Recommendations
• Lighting
• Appliances
• Paper
• Lighting Retrofit
• Annual savings of 4,226 kWh
• Annual cost savings of $425
Next Steps & Project Expansion
• Administration & Finance Department
• Academic Departments
• GCP interns train department personnel
9. Yale Green Workplace Certification
• Self Assessment http://sustainability.yale.edu/workplace
• Seven Action Areas: Point
• Travel
Y/N
Allocation
ENERGY
• Waste
• Energy 1 We have energy-saving power settings as defaults on all workplace computers.
We have enabled sleep mode on all copiers, printers, and fax machines. Copiers and printers are shut
N/A
2 N/A
• Procurement down at night.
If problems exist regarding overheating or overcooling of office space, we have contacted our appropriate
3 N/A
• Kitchen/common areas 4
facilities point-person to report the issue. (guidelines)
If possible, all windows are shut tightly during cold and hot weather. N/A
• Innovations 5
At least 75% of our team has enrolled in Yale’s Managed Workstation, Big Fix, and PC Power Management
Program. (procedures)
N/A
6 We promote the use of laptops over desktop computers as an energy-saving technique. N/A
7 We shut off all computers, monitors, and peripheral devices while they are not in use, and at night. N/A
• Point System 8
We seek out our energy use trend information from facilities and report that information to staff when
available. (info)
N/A
We use compact fluorescent light bulbs in lieu of incandescent light bulbs in all applicable lighting
9 N/A
fixtures.
• Four levels of 10 We have reminders that the last person to leave should make sure the lights and printers are off.
BONUS ACTIONS
N/A
certification (YALE) We do not have desk-side printers or copiers – we only use shared units.
We use window blinds to trap heat and keep out the cold during the winter, and to trap in cold and keep
N/A
N/A
out heat in the summer.
We use power strips as central turn-off points for our individual work stations and switch them off each
N/A
night.
We regularly put in work orders for filters to be replaced in heating and cooling vents. N/A
Total 0
10. Fostering Adoption of Measures
• Prompts
• Norms
• Commitment
• Incentives
• Communication
• ???
11. Thank You! Questions?
Morgan King Tessa Salzman
Campus Lead Cal Poly SLO
Morgan@seiinc.org tessajsalzman@gmail.com