Commercial Construction & Renovation

JAN-FEB 2014

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87 January : February 2014 — CommerCial ConstruCtion & renovation M ichigan State University (MSU) has long been committed to energy conservation, environmental stewardship and sustainability. With 5,200 acres of contiguous campus, 2,100 acres developed for the main campus and more than 550 buildings, the challenge to maintain and operate the mechanical systems is enormous. Doe's Better Buildings challenge helps MsU shows it's a model others can follow By Jason Vallance Five steps to energy- effcient building renovation Anthony Hall, a 317,200-square-foot multi-pur- pose building, will be the frst at MSU to undergo a complete upgrade process, setting the blueprint for future energy effciency improvements in MSU's aging building portfolio. Anthony Hall also is a showcase project for the De- partment of Energy's (DOE) Better Buildings Challenge, which supports commercial and industrial building owners by providing technical assistance and solutions to energy effciency among building facility managers. The program provides a forum for collaboration and problem solving in energy effciency. The Challenge's ultimate goal is to make American commercial and industrial buildings at least 20 percent more energy effcient by 2020. Construction currently taking place in Anthony Hall is step four in its fve-step existing building commissioning process. This process is being carried out in buildings all across the MSU campus. Buildings were chosen using a profling system that helped assess where it could save energy and how to prioritize projects based on where energy was being used the most. The profling system used historical data about the building, including the type and age of systems, and energy use per square foot to determine an opportunity rank. The ranking system ultimately helped its engineering experts identify target areas for funding. The following steps are being carried out as part of MSU's existing-building commissioning process in an attempt to prioritize candidate facilities, evaluate building information, identify CCR-JanFeb.14_48-.indd 87 2/7/14 2:26 PM

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