Energy and Atmosphere Flashcards
What are the Prereq’s for the Energy and Atmosphere Category?
1) Fundamental Commissioning and Verification
2) Minimum Energy Performance
3) Building-Level Energy Metering
4) Fundamental Refrigerant Management
What are the Credits for the Energy and Atmosphere Category?
1) Enhanced Commissioning (6 points)
2) Optimized Energy Performance (18 points)
3) Advanced Energy Metering (1 point)
4) Demand Response (2 points)
5) Renewable Energy Production (3 points)
6) Enhanced Refrigerant Management (1 point)
7) Green Power and Carbon Offsets (2 points)
What Energy and Atmosphere Prereq’s and Credits qualify for Exemplary performance?
1) AE-C Optimized Energy Performance
2) AE-C Renewable Energy Production
What are the guidelines to meet EA-P Fundamental Commissioning and Verification?
1) Review OPR, BOD and project design.
2) Make sure building envelope is included in OPR and BOD.
3) Develop and implement Cx plan
4) Prepare construction checklist and test procedures
5) Confirm system test execution
6) Maintain an Issues log
7) Prepare final Cx report
8) Report all findings to owner
What are the building systems that should be included as part of the CxA’s review in EA-P Fundamental Commissioning and Verification?
1) Mechanical
2) Electrical
3) Plumbing
4) Renewable Energy
What are the qualification requirements to hire a Commissioning Agent (CxA)?
1) Completed at least 2 similar projects from early design to 10 months of occupancy.
2) A qualified employee of the owner
3) An independent consultant
4) An employee of the design or construction firm who was not a part of design or construction
5) A disinterested subcontractor of the design or construction team. Can be part of design and construction team if under 20,000 SF.
What information should the Current Facilities Requirements (CFR) and Operations and Maintenance plan include to meet EA-P Fundamental Commissioning and Verification?
1) A schedule for building occupancy
2) A run-time schedule for equipment
3) A sequence of operations for the building
4) Setpoints for all the HVAC equipment
5) Building lighting levels
6) Any changes in schedules or setpoints for different seasons, days, etc.
7) Minimum requirements for outside air
8) A preventive maintenance plan for building equipment
9) An ongoing commissioning program
What are the documentation requirements for EA-P Fundamental Commissioning and Verification?
1) Experience of CxA
2) List of systems to be commissioned
3) Verification of Cx activities and reviews
4) Cx plan, Current Facilities Requirements (CFR), Operations and Maintenance plan, CX report
5) Documentation of testing and verification.
What are the Options associated with AE-P Minimum Energy Performance?
1) Option 1: Whole-Building Energy Simulation
or
2) Option 2: ASHRAE 50% Advanced Energy Design Guide
or
3) Option 3: Advanced Building Core Performance Guide
What are the guidelines to meet “Option 1: Whole Building Energy Simulation” of AE-P Minimum Energy Performance?
1) Determine Climate Zone per ASHRAE 90.1
2) Create whole building energy model and define baseline per ASHRAE 90.1
3) New construction should demonstrate 5% improvement.
4) Major renovation should demonstrate 3% improvement.
5) Core and shell should demonstrate 2% improvement.
6) Improvements must be made without considering renewal energy sources.
What are the documentation requirements for “Option 1: Whole Building Energy Simulation” of AE-P Minimum Energy Performance?
1) Input and Output report from energy model
2) Energy consumption and demand rates for each building end use.
3) If applicable, exceptional calculations and retail process energy calculations.
What are the guidelines to meet “Option 2: ASHRAE 50% Adv. Energy Design Guide” of AE-P Minimum Energy Performance?
1) Comply with mandatory and prescriptive provisions of ASHRAE 90.1
2) Comply with “Chapter 4: Design Strategies and Recommendations by Climate Zone” of ASHRAE 50% Advanced Energy Design Guide
What are the documentation requirements for “Option 2: ASHRAE 50% Adv. Energy Design Guide” of AE-P Minimum Energy Performance?
1) Advanced Energy Design Guide Compliance Tables
What are the guidelines to meet “Option 3: Adv. Building Core Performance Guide” of AE-P Minimum Energy Performance?
1) Comply with mandatory and prescriptive provisions of ASHRAE 90.1
2) Comply with Advanced Building Core Performance Guide
3) Achieve energy performance score of 90 using ENERGY STAR Target Finder
What are the documentation requirements for “Option 3: Adv. Building Core Performance Guide” of AE-P Minimum Energy Performance?
1) Target Finder results
2) Confirmation that all aspects of section 1 and 2 of Core Performance Guide are met.
3) Narrative and calculations on enhanced performance strategies
What are the Data Center specific guidelines to meet AE-P Minimum Energy Performance?
1) Comply with mandatory and prescriptive provisions of ASHRAE 90.1
2) Create both Building energy model and IT Equipment energy model
3) Demonstrate overall 5% energy reduction
4) Minimum 2% of the 5% reduction must be from building power and cooling infrastructure.
What are the Data Center specific documentation requirements for AE-P Minimum Energy Performance?
1) Input and Output report from energy model
2) Energy consumption and demand rates for each building end use.
3) Data Center calculator
What are the guidelines to meet AE-P Building-Level Energy Metering?
1) Install individual meters to track major energy systems that can be aggregated to provide total building energy consumption.
2) Share data with USGBC on a monthly basis for 5 years.
What are the major energy sources that should be metered as part of AE-P Building-Level Energy Metering?
1) Electricity
2) Natural gas
3) Chilled water
4) Steam
5) Fuel oil
6) Propane
7) Biomass
What are the documentation requirements for AE-P Building-Level Energy Metering?
1) Confirmation of permanently installed meters
2) Letter of 5 year commitment
3) Confirmation of data-sharing source
What are the guidelines to meet AE-P Fundamental Refrigerant Management?
1) Must not use CFC based refrigerants
2) Existing equipment must phase out CFC’s
3) Small equipment containing less than .5 pounds of refrigerant are exempt
