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680 Eye Street Residential and Riverside Baptist Church projects are both being developed by PN Hoffman, the client. Two facilities are being built. A 10 story residential apartment building with about 170 apartments of approximately 153,000 square feet, a 3-story church with chapel, assembly and ancillary offices, with floor area of about 13,300 square feet.

Architects for the Church are GBR Architects and Studios M designed the residential mid-rise. MEP Engineers for the church is Jordan and Skala, and for the residences, MEP engineering is by Potomac Energy Group.

Both project Requirements/Objectives are cComply with local mechanical, electrical, plumbing and energy codes, construct in compliance with international standards of design, materials, and execution, and minimize total environmental impact and achieve LEED Silver v 3.0 certification. HITT Contracting is the General Contractor on both buildings

Mixed-use commercial campus on the Washington, DC waterfront. 17,000 sf in two buildings is in our commissioning scope of work. The project was designed to achieve LEED Core+Shell Green building certification. Hoffman-Madison Waterfront is the developer, Studio MB is the architect and Balfour Beatty is the general contractor. Completion expected in spring 2018.

As part of the Base Realignment and Closure Program (BRAC), the existing Walter Reed Medical Center has relocated to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Two new buildings, labeled A and B, were recently constructed there.

Building A, comprising about 500,000 square feet, will house such areas as the Children’s Health Area, Cancer Treatment Center, Neurology Area, Physical Therapy, and Medical Staff Offices. Building B, with about 220,000 square feet, will house Patient Bedrooms, Operating Rooms, and the Ambulance Receiving Center.

This elegant 505,000 sf office building, with state-of-the-art systems, is part of a larger office complex owned and operated by Property Group Partners adjacent to historic Union Station. CPM Scheduling was CxA for both core and shell and the Interior fit-out for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the dominant tenant of the building.

The building is LEED-CS Silver certified and the Interior is awaiting LEED –CI v3.0 Silver certification. This job completed 12/2010.

 

This 8 story office building, originally built in 1985, contains approximately 225,000 square feet of professional office space. The facility was recently updated to the highest standards of design, materials, and execution resulting in LEED-EB (Existing Buildings) platinum certification.

CPM retro-commissioned the building focusing on mechanical, lighting, and plumbing systems; they facilitated achieving the highest LEED certification. A US DOE Energy Star rating of 86 and a positive indoor environmental quality for all building occupants were also results.

A recent study have revealed median commissioning costs are $0.27 /sf in existing buildings with documented paybacks of less than one year in the majority of buildings evaluated. The median cost of commissioning was $1.00/sf in new buildings with an average payback of 4.7 years.

Costs tend to be higher in complex buildings such as hospitals and laboratories. However, as a result of their relatively high energy intensity, paybacks also tend to be quicker.

For existing buildings in this study,  the median whole-building energy cost savings associated with commissioning was 15 percent.

LEED enhanced commissioning (added onto fundamental commissioning)  adds roughly 15 percent to the total commissioning cost. Non energy benefits of commissioning were also evaluated. Although non-energy benefits will not necessarily translate into carbon reductions, they can be important to convincing decision makers of the value of commissioning to their projects.

Courtesy PECI, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Texas A&M University (by wiki.aia.org)

Retro commissioning is a full facility tune-up designed to help your building perform optimally. RCx entails a systematic evaluation that can save owners and managers up to 15 percent of their annual energy costs. Other potential benefits include:

• Targeted energy savings opportunities
• Reduced maintenance and repair costs
• Extended equipment service life
• More comfortable working environment

Every owner and manager wants to increase occupant comfort and reduce operational costs. CPM provides RCx services that include:

• Sophisticated analysis of building energy usage
• Comprehensive on-site investigation
• Monitoring & review of BMS data
• Functional testing of savings measures
• Credible measurement & verification of final savings

The goal of RCx is to make sure that existing equipment works better. CPM Commissioning delivers recommendations for reducing operational and maintenance costs, presents measures that will bring equipment to its proper operational state, and improve occupant comfort while reducing complaints about mechanical issues.

Continuous commissioning uses ongoing efforts to resolve operating problems, improve comfort, and optimize energy use for existing commercial and institutional buildings and central plant facilities.

In the building is a system that gathers hundreds of data points hourly, or even more frequently, and transmits them to a central server. Data analysis software performs fault detection and diagnostics, alerting facility managers to hidden problems that waste energy and compromise occupant comfort.

For example, air handling units can get stuck in a mode where they’re heating and cooling simultaneously. Correcting that would immediately reduce energy waste, sometimes dramatically. Short term, building occupants experience greater comfort. Longer term, it reduces wear and maintenance on expensive mechanical equipment.

Continuous commissioning goes by many names, like monitoring-based, or data-based commissioning, or just ongoing energy monitoring. By any name, it’s a real energy saver.