Tuesday, 09 March 2010

Hospital & Labs

Hospital and laboratory energy use is dominated by the need to condition air for proper temperature and humidity conditions and to maintain safe and healthy environments by exhausting potentially hazardous air. Integrated energy efficiency design can reduce the high energy costs associated with these systems while meeting the demands of these specialized building types.

published Tuesday, March 09, 2010   4 Views :: 0 Comments

La Maestra Community Health Centers is an award-winning not-for- profit organization that has been serving low-income and immigrant communities for 19 years.
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published Friday, June 26, 2009   1958 Views :: 2 Comments

Saving Lives, Saving Energy: Top Strategies for High- Performance Hospital Design

Ongoing construction and major retrofitting of hospitals in California, driven by aging facilities and the demand for new medical technologies, offers an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically improve the energy performance of healthcare facilities for decades to come.


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published Friday, June 12, 2009   2441 Views :: 1 Comments

The Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences (TCES) is a three-story, 45,000 ft2 building on Sierra Nevada College’s Lake Campus that demonstrates how an ambitious project team can successfully reduce energy usage by implementing a variety of innovative mechanical designs at minimal additional first cost.
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published Saturday, February 24, 2007  

eQUEST® is a sophisticated, yet easy to use building energy use analysis tool which provides professional-level results with an affordable level of effort.

This freeware tool was designed to allow you to perform detailed analysis of today's state-of-the-art building design technologies using today's most sophisticated building energy use simulation techniques but without requiring extensive experience in the "art" of building performance modeling. This is accomplished by combining a building creation wizard, an energy efficiency measure (EEM) wizard and a graphical results display module with an enhanced DOE-2-derived building energy use simulation program.
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published Thursday, December 01, 2005  

It’s no easy undertaking to design a high-performance laboratory building that uses very little energy while meeting comfort, health, safety and programmatic requirements. Laboratory buildings typically have very energyintensive heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems that operate 24 hours per day and use 100 percent outside air.
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published Tuesday, October 01, 2002  

The Pharmaceutical Research Institute in La Jolla, California, is a 123,000-square-foot laboratory and office building completed in 1999. Among the energy efficiency measures included in the building are systems for limiting energy waste associated with its 92 fume hoods and its air handling, space conditioning, and lighting systems.
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published Monday, September 02, 2002  

Using the integrated energy design approach, designers can cost-effectively lower building operating costs while improving workers’ comfort and boosting productivity.
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published Saturday, February 02, 2002  

Not all energy-efficiency measures are appropriate for all building types, but some are especially useful for particular buildings. This Design Brief reminds designers and builders of opportunities they should consider in each of their projects.
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published Tuesday, January 01, 2002  

A few building simulation runs early in a project can lead to design solutions that, though they appear simple, significantly improve building energy performance.
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published Friday, March 30, 2001  

Laboratory-type facilities represent an important segment of the building stock, especially when considered in terms of energy intensity and overall energy consumption. According to researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL), there are more than 50 million square feet of laboratory-
type space in California alone. Energy intensities are often five times higher than
those found in other building types such as offices.

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