Remote Learning Library - Smart Buildings Center

Please search our list of on-demand webinars. Topic include: energy efficiency, demand response, building operations, benchmarking, building tune-ups, smart building technologies, and grid-enabled buildings.

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	Title	Organizer		Speaker	Description	Category	Cost
wdt_ID	Title	Organizer	Website	Speaker	Description	Category	Cost
1	Coronavirus Information with Building Operations Focus	BOMA Seattle King County			This 2.5 hour webinar featured several panelists and the following topics were covered: Background on the Virus, Building Operations, Property Pandemic Response Plan Basics, and Personal/Family Preparedness.	Building operations	0
2	Cities Climate Action Webinar: A Focus on Buildings	People for Climate Action				Energy efficiency	0
3	Resiliency & Security in Smart Buildings	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			Attend this webinar to learn how collaborative partnerships between building management, information technology, security, and purchasing will help your building reach the goal of being a smart building.	Building operations, Smart building technologies	59
4	Emerging Smart Building Technology & Enhanced Building Performance	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			This webinar will introduce smart buildings technologies and practices that harness building data and controls to optimize performance and enable more efficient, comfortable, and cost-effective operations.	Building operations, Smart building technologies	59
5	Improving the Energy Consumption of Pumps	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			Focused on pump system optimization, this webinar will give attendees a primer on how pumps operate, pump applications in buildings, how pumps consume energy, and how they can be controlled to optimize energy consumption.	Energy Efficiency	59
6	HVAC Controls Including Demand-Control Ventilation	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			This webinar will highlight HVAC controls strategies, including demand-control ventilation, that building operators can implement in their buildings to make them more comfortable and efficient.		59
7	Going Beyond Benchmarking your Building	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			This webinar will discuss strategies beyond monitoring energy use to looking at data analysis that would impact the whole building.		59
8	Safety Practices in Building Operations	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			This webinar will provide an overview of the regulatory rules and the standards that guide us toward Occupational Health and Occupational Safety practices to sustain our most valued organizational assets: Our People!		59
9	Energy Management Information Systems: How Do You Track and Communicate Savings Over Time	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			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.		59
10	Building Tune-ups in Buildings with a Building Automation System	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			This webinar will discuss the re-tuning approaches of identifying energy efficiency opportunities using a building automation system	Building tune-ups	59
11	Design for Off: Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems with Heat Recovery as the Fundamental Building Block for Commercial HVAC Systems	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			This webinar will lay out the argument for a shift away from large central all-in-one HVAC systems such as VAV to smaller decentralized zonal heating and cooling equipment with ventilation provided by a separate heat recovery ventilation unit.		59
12	Latest on Lighting – Luminaire Level Lighting Controls	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			This presentation provides an introduction to luminaire level lighting controls, including case studies from buildings that have installed LLLCs.		59
13	Cash Incentives for Your Energy Projects	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			Justifying investment in energy efficiency projects can be a challenge for those who are budget constraint. Hear BOC graduates talk about their projects and strategies to help reduce investment costs by leveraging utility rebates and incentives.		59
14	Occupant Engagement - Getting Buy-in from Building Occupants to Save Energy	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			A Resource Conversation Manager for a school district shares her strategies to getting buy in from stakeholders to implement sustainability practices and from the Smart Buildings Center on their successful tenant engagement strategies.		59
15	Lighting Controls - Top 5 Things to Know	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			This webinar will discuss the need for advanced efficient lighting and controls and discuss what’s trending to include sophisticated controls, wireless systems, to fully integrated lighting system for building solutions.		59
16	Save Money and Build Resilience with Distributed Energy Technologies	U.S. Department of Energy			Building owners face a range of priorities when it comes to powering their buildings – minimizing cost, ensuring resilience, and in many cases, meeting renewable energy goals. This webinar introduced two tools from the National Labs for assessing potential facility-level energy technology investments: The Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM), and REopt Lite. Presenters discussed strategies for using these tools to incorporate distributed energy technologies to optimize the unique energy needs of their facilities.	Grid enabled buildings	0
17	The Autonomous Driving Building: What's in the Future for Building Control Systems	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			The internet and web-based applications have had a significant impact on the way facility operators interact with their building systems. What does the next 20 years look like? This webinar will explore the trends in building controls.		59
18	My Facility is Too Humid - How can I solve this problem?	Smart Buildings Center / BOC			This webinar provides an overview of the RH control problem, the results of Department of Defense testing on the HEDS, and how the HEDS may be applicable to your facility type.		59
19	Trends and Technology in Wastewater Energy Efficiency	AEE		Layne McWilliams, Cascade Energy	As wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) turn into water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs), process design and equipment has started to focus more on the energy implications of processing wastewater. We’ll cover some basics up front, then take a little tour through some of the innovative products and processes that are starting to hit the market. And, we’ll have some fun – it’s wastewater, how can you not? Presented: May, 2020 Presenter: Layne McWilliams, Cascade Energy	Energy efficiency	0
20	Maintaining and Restoring Water Quality in Buildings During the COVID-19 Response	EPA ENERGY STAR			Ken Rotert and Bill Platten from the EPA’s Office o Groundwater and Drinking Water and Dana Robbins Schneider from Empire State Realty Trust joined ENERGY STAR for a discussion of water quality risks in buildings with low or no use due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as guidance for re-populating buildings.	Building operations	0
21	Data Collection Part A Property Use Data	City of Seattle				Benchmarking	0
22	Introduction to Benchmarking Your Building	City of Seattle				Benchmarking	0
23	Data Collection Part B Energy Meter Data	City of Seattle				Benchmarking	0
24	Creating a Portfolio Manager Account and Entering Data	City of Seattle				Benchmarking	0
25	Obtaining Data Usage: Seattle City Light	City of Seattle				Benchmarking	0

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