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		<title>Sustainable Community Conference: Finland</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/sustainable-community-conference-finland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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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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		<title>World Energy Congress, Washington DC</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/world-energy-congress-washington-dc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 4-6, 2009
Washington Convention Center
Washington, DC
Now in its 32nd year, the WEEC is well-recognized as the most important energy event of national scope for end users and energy professional in all areas of the energy field. It is the one truly comprehensive forum where you can fully assess the &#8220;big picture&#8221; – and see exactly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=374&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CIBSE</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/cibse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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CIBSE Certification Ltd
222 Balham High Road
London
SW12 9BS
If you need to get an Energy Performance Certificate or Display Energy Certificate for your building then access our client area to find out how CIBSE Certification can help you and why you should use an accredited Low Carbon Energy Assessor.

Also find out all the background on the law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=366&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building Commissioning: The Stealth Energy Efficiency Strategy</title>
		<link>http://buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/building-commissioning-the-stealth-energy-efficiency-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark walter</dc:creator>
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The following post is written Evan Mills, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whom I have known for almost two decades.  He recently authored a cost-benefit analysis of energy efficiency measures entitled Building Commissioning: A Golden Opportunity for Reducing Energy Costs and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions.  In the figure below, the overlaid orange “step” is derived from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingcommissioning.wordpress.com&blog=2361288&post=342&subd=buildingcommissioning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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