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Smart Buildings Center Technical Webinar Series

April 1, 2019 By SBC

The Smart Buildings Center now offers live instructional webinars throughout the year to keep you informed on the dynamic field of facilities management. Learn practical solutions to deal with the energy hogs in your building from industry experts. The 2019 webinars focus on occupational health and safety practices in buildings, utilize energy management information systems to identify and communicate energy savings opportunities, as well as explore advancements in HVAC and lighting.

For the BOC graduate, successful completion of the webinar and accompanying quiz provides 1.5 points towards maintaining your BOC Certification and .15 IACET CEU’s towards the renewal of industry certifications, certificates and licenses including but not limited to AIA, PE, LEED, IFMA, ASHRAE, and AEE.

Live webinars are held from 2 to 3 p.m. ET. Once broadcast, they are available on demand in recorded format from our webinar library.

Building Tune-Ups In Buildings With A Building Automation System

April 23, 2019

Periodic re-tuning of building controls and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems can help improve the building’s energy efficiency through low cost and no-cost operational improvements. This webinar will discuss the re-tuning approaches of identifying energy efficiency opportunities using a building automation system (BAS).

Speaker: Srinivas Katipamula, PNNL, Staff Scientist

Energy Management Information Systems: How Do You Track and Communicate Savings Over Time

May 15, 2019

Commercial buildings are full of hidden energy savings potential that can be uncovered with the right analysis. Utilizing a utility bill analysis to energy management information system with fault detection and diagnostics capabilities, this webinar will provide building operators a deeper and faster insight on how to unlock energy efficiency opportunities and how to communicate the energy savings and maintenance costs over time.

Speaker: Brian Hanson, MacDonald Miller, BPG Project Development Manager

IFMA Annual Education Symposium

April 1, 2019 By SBC

THE BUSINESS OF BUILDINGS: INVESTIGATE, DISCOVER, PREDICT
JUNE 19, 2019

Time: 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location: Lynnwood Convention Center
3711 196th Street SW
Lynnwood WA, 98036

Treat yourself to a day of networking and education with your peers! The IFMA Greater Seattle Education Symposium is our chapter’s flagship education event featuring a full day of continuing education sessions on important trends and practices in facility management.

Gifford Pinchot III
This year’s keynote speaker is Gifford Pinchot III, Founder and President Emeritus of “The Bainbridge Graduate Institute” which offered the first MBA in Sustainable Business – (Now merged with Presidio Graduate School), who will speak on his theory of “intrapreneurship”

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Join the SBC on a Microsoft Tour!

March 4, 2019 By SBC

Hosted by the IFMA Seattle Chapter and the Smart Buildings Center, attendees will tour one of the newer buildings on the Microsoft campus during which they will share how Microsoft designs and manages its campus and employee work space (we’ll also see the Tree Houses). Microsoft will share their plans for an extensive campus modernization which will be the most Sustainable, Connected, Accessible and Secure. Microsoft will discuss space utilization in general, the design of their Team Based Space work space. They will review the use of technology on campus that enhance the employee experience like Surface Hubs, and lobby experience. The tour will be an interactive discussion taking place on the Redmond campus.

Space is limited so register now (IFMA member – $40, Non Member – $50). Questions? Contact [email protected].

Agenda:
4:00 – 4:30 pm – Registration
4:30 – 5:30 pm – Tour
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Networking and Appetizers/Drinks

ShiftBuilding Symposium

March 4, 2019 By SBC

Join the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild at their ShiftBuilding Symposium: High Performance HVAC Systems on March 7th from 12pm – 5:30pm.

Do you want to get the most out of your HVAC system? Do you desire clean, fresh air circulating through your home or building without negative pressure vacuums? Does your project need a tight envelope and do your occupants want stable, comfortable indoor temperatures? Did you know that the best HVAC choice for efficiency and comfort is dependent on building size and several other factors?

Learn from Ecotope’s Shawn Oram and PAE’s David Mead about emerging technologies for heat pump systems and dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS). New climate conscious refrigerants are helping to make green building more efficient than ever before, and the benefits of outdoor air systems include fresh air free of particulates and full of oxygen. Leave stuffy airspace behind with the solutions available at this ShiftBuilding Symposium.

Discover the details and the best products available from the manufacturer’s representatives! Featured manufacturers will share their products and applications in track learning sessions. Discover the importance of balanced ventilation and appropriate applications of technology from the experts. The day will have structured trade-show opportunities for learning more and meeting new members of the green building field.

As a supporting partner, Smart Buildings Center subscribers receive a 10% discount off registration by entering “SmartEnergy” when you register. Don’t miss out on this opportunity and register now.

Washington Legislative Session Update

February 28, 2019 By SBC

In Washington, the Clean Buildings bill (HB 1257/SB 5293) was voted out of the House Finance Committee on Wednesday [reported by KUOW here], and the House Appropriations Committee heard testimony Thursday morning. The Senate Ways and Means Committee is considering a vote this week. NEEC is continuing to voice its strong support for this bill, especially the commercial building standard. It can be easy to underestimate the impact of shifting our mindset about buildings from places we go to, work in, and drive by to community assets that perform either adequately or inadequately depending on how you define your standards. The Clean Buildings bill takes an initial, important step toward changing how we think about the energy efficiency of our buildings by establishing an energy performance standard for commercial buildings over 50,000 square feet. This is the kind of smart, innovative policy that will help us transform our building stock into the dynamic, community assets the future demands. Now is the right time to reach out to your legislators to urge their support of this important legislation.

The legislature continues to consider SB 5116/HB 1211, the 100% Clean bill. The Senate version is making its way to the floor schedule and already has a hearing scheduled in the House Energy & Environment Committee. As reported a few weeks back, this bill defines distributed energy resource in a manner to include EE and conservation resources, and NEEC believes this is a great way to accelerate the role of buildings and consumer equipment as part of the grid of the future. As the grid relies more heavily on intermittent resources such as wind and solar, leveraging customer-sited solutions such as demand management, energy efficiency, and storage will be critical to grid reliability. We are excited about how this bill paves the way for more sophisticated and complex customer side solutions.

ACEEE explores 3 emerging opportunities to help commercial buildings optimize energy

February 11, 2019 By SBC

As part of their Emerging Opportunities for Buildings series, ACEEE explores three opportunities in new topics emerging for commercial buildings to optimize their energy use. They include not only innovative technologies, but also new approaches to system design, building operations, and financing.

In this brief, ACEEE explores:

Integrated building systems – use sensors, controls, and software to manage energy use and optimize performance.
Energy storage – offers another opportunity for energy efficiency and enhanced energy management in buildings.
Efficiency as a service (EaaS) – a model where the service provider maintains ownership of installed equipment while the customer pays for the energy services provided.

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