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		<title>Sierra College: LEED Gold, California&#8217;s First for a Community College</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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This U.S. Green Building Council award is a first for any Community College in California!
The first permanent building on the Sierra Community College Tahoe-Truckee Campus has received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The 28,500 square foot facility, designed by Lionakis Architects and built by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=419&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Certification: Existing Building Commissioning Professional</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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Association of Energy Engineers has established the Existing Building Commissioning Professional certification program in order to recognize qualified professionals with expertise in the area of retrofitting existing buildings into more sustainable, efficient facilities while meeting existing building commissioning creteria, as well as to raise the overall professional standards within the building commissioning field.

A prerequisite to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=412&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building Operator Certification</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/building-operator-certification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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Building Operator Certification (BOC®) is a nationally recognized training and certification program for building operators offering improved job skills and more comfortable, energy-efficient facilities.
Overview of Building Operator Certification
Building Operator Certification (BOC) is a competency-based training and certification for building operators offering improved job skills and more comfortable, efficient facilities. Operators earn certification by attending training [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=405&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Community Conference: Finland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[22.-24.9.2010 Dipoli, Espoo, Finland
The Conference topics are grouped into six principal themes:
1) Sustainability Assessment of Buildings and Cities Environmental, economic and social assessment emphasizing
• the use of Building Information Models – buildingSMART
• assessment methods and tools towards LCA based Carbon Footprint calculation
• indicators and rating tools
• case studies
2) Managing Life Cycle Performance The focus is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=402&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City prepares for green-building conference in 2012</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/city-prepares-for-green-building-conference-in-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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By Diane Mastrull
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
As many as 30,000 green-building advocates from around the world will convene in Philadelphia for an industry conference three years from now.
And already, the worrying has begun about the spotlight such this high-profile, November 2012 event &#8211; sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council, a driving force in the sustainable-construction movement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=399&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstreaming Retrocommissioning in a Utility Program</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/mainstreaming-retrocommissioning-in-a-utility-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Conference on Building Commissioning: April 22 – 24, 2008
Steven Long, Eliot Crowe – Mainstreaming RCx in a Utility Program &#8211; Lessons Learned 1
Mainstreaming Retrocommissioning in a Utility Program:
Lessons Learned
Steven Long, P.E.
Southern California Edison
Eliot Crowe,
Portland Energy Conservation, Inc.
Synopsis
Retrocommissioning (RCx) commercial buildings is gaining recognition in the utility industry
as a cost-effective means of achieving energy savings. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=396&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irvine schools find it isn&#8217;t easy going green</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/irvine-schools-find-it-isnt-easy-going-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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District wants students to compete to cut energy costs, but first needs to get utility on board.
By SEAN EMERY, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
IRVINE Educators say a race to cut back energy usage among local schools could teach students about the cost of wasted electricity, but only if utility companies speed up their own &#8220;green&#8221; efforts.
The idea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=393&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Analysis Finds Reduced HVAC May Improve Health</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/berkeley-lab-analysis-finds-reduced-hvac-may-improve-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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Buildings Substantially Overcooled in Summer
In winter, the researchers found, the buildings were kept mostly within the recommended temperature comfort range for winter, but in summer building temperatures were, on average, below the comfort range for summer. Surprisingly, buildings were, on average, kept even cooler in the summer than in the winter, by almost 1°F (0.5°C), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=389&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center &amp; Clean Room Commissioning: Resources</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/data-center-clean-room-commissioning-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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Data Centers

EMC Engineers. No Date. &#8220;Case Study: HVAC Assessment/Retro-Commissioning: NOAA Weather Forecasting Office, Honolulu.&#8221;
Hydeman, M., R. Seidl, and C. Shalley. 2005. &#8220;Staying On-Line: Data Center Commissioning.&#8221;ASHRAE Journal, April.
Hydeman, M. no date. &#8220;Data Center CX.&#8221; Presentation at the UC/CSU Data Center Energy Efficiency Training workshop.
Lundstrom, C.E. 2004. &#8220;Retro-Commissioning a NOAA Weather Forecasting Office.&#8221; Proceedings of the National [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=386&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Green Building Ordinance &#8211; and Cx</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/san-francisco-green-building-ordinance-and-cx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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The Board of Supervisors passed the San Francisco Green Building Ordinance unanimously. There has been no industrial backlash and the only reported concern with the Ordinance has to do with some procedural liability issues at the DBI. The one issue expressed by both Robert Baum and Laurence Kornfield was that the LEED system has not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=376&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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