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Airside Economizer – Comparing Different Control Strategies and Common Misconceptions
(Energy Systems Laboratory, 2008-12)
Air-side economizer is broadly adopted in building HVAC design and operations. When the system is properly designed and the control sequence is properly implemented, air-side economizer provides significant energy savings. ...
Measuring Energy-Saving Retrofits: Experiences from the LoanSTAR Program
(2005-09-27)
In 1988 the Governor's Energy Management Center of Texas received approval from the U.S. Department of Energy to establish a $98.6 million state-wide retrofit demonstration revolving loan program to fund energy-conserving ...
Commissioning Lessons from Study of the Advanced Systems at the CMU Intelligent Workplace
(2008-04)
A detailed study has been conducted of the performance of several innovative aspects of the Intelligent Workplace (IW) at Carnegie Mellon University, a low energy consumption building that uses radiant heating, cooling and ...
A Follow-up Study on the Persistence of Savings from the Retrocommissioning of Ten Buildings on a University Campus: Preliminary Results
(2007-09-11)
A study has been initiated to provide follow-up analysis on the persistence of savings achieved from the retrocommissioning of ten buildings on a university campus. The buildings were originally commissioned in 1996, and ...
Sustainability Assessment and Roadmap for a Green Campus Initiative
(Energy Systems Laboratory, 2006-10)
Texas A&M International University and the Energy Systems Laboratory of the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station have partnered to conduct a campus sustainability assessment
and create a subsequent campus sustainability ...
Lessons and Measures Learned from Continuous Commissioning(SM) of Central Chilled/Hot Water Systems
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2001)
As it has been proved repeatedly that
commissioning is very necessary for new construction
and renovation/retrofit projects, we found continuous
commissioningSM (CC) is an effective and efficient
way to manage and optimize ...
Using Simulation Models for Building Commissioning
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2004)
The International Energy Agency ECBCS Annex 40 “Commissioning of Buildings and HVAC
Systems for Improved Energy Performance” task investigating Use of Whole Building Simulation in
Commissioning has identified the following ...