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ASU in the News Publication Name: Financial Times, London, GBR Market Name: Publication Date: 2008-01-30 00:00:00.000 Frequency: Daily Circulation: 449187 Market Rank: 0 Title: ASU’s Brian comments on "green buildings" Byline: Danny Bradbury Favorability: Positive 10
Every user to be part of move to green buildings Giving staff information on how much power is being used could be the next step says Danny Bradbury started to get seri Last ous year about the green world IT The main goal was making servers work harder using less energy and many companies have made progress But what about the build ings people work in Many offices are not designed with energy efficiency in mind meaning that as servers work hard to save power heating and lighting systems are wasting it What can be done Green buildings has become a popular term over the past few years but designers have been experi menting with energy effi ciency for decades says Har vey Bryan professor at the school of agriculture at Arizona State University We started to bring in computer controls for build ings back in the 1980s he says explaining that origi nal pneumatic controls were replaced by actuators and then by digital controls Today new buildings are almost all fitted with compu terised controls for heating and air conditioning The more advanced com puter controlled systems present a console on a single screen that building manag ers check and adjust occa sionally But the next step is to adopt what Prof Bryan calls the Prius factor Toyota s hybrid car tells drivers how much fuel they are using at their current speed reminding them to ease up on the accelerator Buildings are starting to do the same We re now seeing that screen moving out of the building manager s cubicle in the basement and into the front lobby and on to every user s desktop he says They re now providing information to building own ers and tenants That data can be displayed anywhere For example Oberlin College in Ohio uses a system created by Lucid Design Systems It logs energy consumption within its 26 dormitories using sen sors and displays the results in public kiosks within the building The real time statistics can also be viewed online at www oberlin edu dorm energy and are used to run competitions between the dorms to see which can use the least energy Sensor technology is becoming more sophisti cated says Prof Bryan Zigbee a low powered radio technology is being used in sensors that commu nicate with each other wire lessly A mesh of wireless sensors in the building can relay environmental information between each other and back to central control systems which means that old build ings do not have to be rewired A Zigbee sensor could be programmed to tell a building control system when no one is in a room dimming the lights or lower Financial Times Circulation: 449187 DMA: ing the heat Prof Bryan also likes the idea of micro sensors embed ded in walls to provide a more accurate reading of the heat in a room based on sur face temperature rather than air temperature You could read those and then do a mean radiant tem perature calculation he says explaining that putting a thermostat at a single point in a room often fails to provide an accurate reading because heat is rarely dis tributed evenly in the air in a room By installing a series of such sensors in the wall you give users more control and have a better temperature indicator One drawback is that even basic upgrades to heating and lighting systems can be expensive However the costs can be covered by energy savings Energy services companies will often install systems in return for little or no up front payment with the cus tomer using the money saved on energy bills to cover instalments Performance based con tracts provide a benchmark to adjust payments based on actual savings over time But adapting existing buildings with fancy tech nologies is not the only way to make structures greener Experts are proposing changes in architecture to design energy efficiency into buildings right from the start You can make a lot of © Copyright 01/30/2008 Financial Times Cision USA, Inc. 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City: London State: GBR difference by simply con structing things the right way says Helen Goodland executive director of Light house a Vancouver based organisation that collects market intelligence and develops policies on green buildings Ms Goodland believes that buildings use between 30 and 40 per cent of energy in the Pacific Northwest s Using virtual building envi ronments to model air flow daylight and heat absorption can help designers make the right decisions at the outset These are all important and tie into the CAD com puter aided design models that the architects use to generate the plans and ele vations she says The move to environmen tally friendly building design and adaptation is gaining such force that there is even a standard The US Green Building Council s LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmen tal Design rates buildings throughout their lifespan design construction and operation It spans a range of types including commer cial interiors healthcare and schools It rates the environmen tal footprint of a building with energy efficiency being a major component says Roy McBrayer deputy state architect and programme manager for California s green building initiative The state is on a mission to improve the energy effi ciency of government build Account: 2565G0 Date: 01/30/2008 Pub Num: GBD5008 Section/Page: DB6 Page Count: 1 / 2 ings as part of a wider initi ative called the Green Build ing Executive Order signed in 2004 All buildings that the state will build will be built to LEED silver certification standards explains Mr McBrayer The 1 650 existing facilities in the state under the execu tive authority of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will also be brought up to that standard and the 250 of them that are more than 50 000 sq ft in size will receive LEED certification he adds Mr McBrayer expects most of the changes will increase energy efficiency in areas such as lighting heating and air conditioning sys tems However he also says that a lot can be achieved purely through changes in opera tional procedures We are signing a perform ance contract agreement with the energy services company that has guaran teed savings says Mr McBrayer If not then it will pay the state the difference With whole US states try ing to make public buildings more energy efficient com mercial organisations may follow suit RefNo: 3306ce
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