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Crowd sourcing energy efficiency in buildings

Facilities operators, building service suppliers, building design and engineering professionals, equipment providers, building occupants, and even the general public can all play a role in building...

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Create your first BuiltSpace building

If you are a building portfolio owner, property/facility manager or tenant in multiple buildings, I personally invite you to create and use your first BuiltSpace building so you can see for yourself...

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ROI on energy efficiency for small building portfolios

Of the 4.8 million commercial buildings in the US, 98 percent, by number, are small or medium size (under 100,000 square feet). Options for larger buildings include real time BAS or EMIS systems where...

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Reducing energy consumption in fast food restaurants by 50 %, with less than...

Here is a very detailed engineering study on energy efficiency measures that could help fast food restaurants reduce energy consumption by 50 percent, and have a simple payback of less than 5 years....

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Most Buildings are Operated Very Inefficiently, but BuiltSpace Technologies...

Techvibes writer John Gray covered BuiltSpace in a recent post. He makes some great points. Read it here. “The knowledge on how to make buildings more energy efficient is out there. Add up the...

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Students at Thompson Rivers University tweeting about @builtspace at #mytru

Students and staff at TRU are now tweeting about sustainability in their work and study spaces as part of the @builtspace project at TRU, as part of a year long study about engaging people in buildings...

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The three legs of energy efficiency

What’s the problem with Energy Management? Energy dashboards and real time energy monitoring have been touted as the answer to energy efficiency in buildings. I don’t think that the current approach to...

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Data visibility drives behavior

Here’s an interesting article about sustainability at AT&T, found in the John Shultz MIT Sloan Management Review online. I agree with John Shultz, director of sustainability operations at AT&T:...

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Cheap oil is needed for economic growth, and we are simply running out of the...

Source: Hall & Murphy Energy and economic prosperity go hand in hand. In his post EROI, Insidious Feedbacks, and the End of Economic Growth David Murphy argues that “Cheap oil is needed for...

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Maintenance Matters: The energy cost of HVAC air filters.

Every day your building loses energy efficiency, with occasional improvement as equipment is serviced. The “drift”, if left unchecked, could be as much as 30 percent of your energy energy consumption....

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Retrofits alone won’t get us to our energy efficiency goals

Governments in the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe have set aggressive energy goals to reduce consumption by 20-30 percent. Let’s do the math. According to the US Department of Energy this is how...

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Demand response changes building management software requirements

Pike Research estimates that 1.5 million buildings will be enrolled in utility demand response programs by 2018, up from 600,000 buildings today. In these programs utilities pay customers to reduce...

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Green Button will accelerate your energy efficiency efforts and simplify...

Green Button is catching on. Quickly. Is your utility committed to this standard method of accessing your Smart Meter data? Check it out here. BuiltSpace supports Green Button. We can help you automate...

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Smart Planet, Smart City, Smart Buildings, now Smart Chairs!

Smart Chairs?. Yes, they are here. Productivity is about people, and now it’s getting personal. This chair actually monitors your posture to help you improve comfort and productivity, but also does...

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Pay attention to parasitic energy use in commercial building HVAC systems

A 1999 study by Detlef Westphalen andScott Koszalinski, Energy Consumption Characteristics of Commercial Building HVAC Systems  looked at parasitic energy consumption. Following are some excerpts from...

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Best Practice in Building Maintenance. Reactive, Preventative or Predictive?

The US Department of Energy publication, Operations & Maintenance Best Practices, A Guide to Achieving Operational Efficiency (G. P. Sullivan, R. Pugh, A. P. Melendez, W. D. Hunt, December 2002)...

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It is all about people taking action that saves the energy

In a recent white paper entitled, Intelligent Efficiency: Innovations Reshaping the Energy Efficiency Market, author Stephen Lacey described the findings of Johnson Controls, with respect to barriers...

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Where are you looking for your energy efficiency?

In a recent article VERGE and the Built Environment, author Rob Watson pointed out that the average space allocated to workers is rapidly declining. Let’s consider using space more efficiently as a...

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There’s no magic to reduced energy consumption , just hard work and better...

There are really only five (some would say four) ways to reduce energy consumption in buildings. Energy efficiency – replacing existing building technology with more efficient means of delivering the...

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Putting the fossil fuel energy era in perspective. Four generations beginning...

This past weekend I attended a Vancouver Heritage Foundation event to place a plaque on the site of the first gasoline station in Canada, at the corner of Smythe and Cambie in downtown Vancouver....

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