Panel 3. Commercial Buildings: Technologies, Design, Performance Analysis, and Building Industry Trends

Zero Energy Windows
Dariush Arasteh, Steve Selkowitz, and Josh Apte, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marc LaFrance, U.S. Department of Energy

Empirical Benchmarking of Building Performance
Paul Bannister, Exergy Australia
Adam Hinge, Sustainable Energy Partnerships

How Monitoring-Based Commissioning Contributes to Energy Efficiency for Commercial Buildings
Karl Brown, California Institute for Energy & Environment
Mike Anderson, Newcomb Anderson McCormick
Jeff Harris, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Evaluating the Energy Performance of the First Generation of LEED-Certified Commercial Buildings
Rick Diamond, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mike Opitz and Tom Hicks, U.S. Green Building Council
Bill Von Neida, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Shawn Herrera, U.S. Department of Energy

Displacement Ventilation in Action: Performance Monitoring of Demonstration Classrooms
Charles Eley and John Arent, Architectural Energy Corporation
Bradley Meister, California Energy Commission

De-Scaling the Peak: The Impact of a Polarized Refrigerant Oil Additive on Chiller Performance at a U.S. Postal Service Processing & Distribution Center
William Golove, Alex Lekov, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Best Practices for Data Centers: Lessons Learned from Benchmarking 22 Data Centers
Steve Greenberg, Evan Mills, and Bill Tschudi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter Rumsey, Rumsey Engineers
Bruce Myatt, EYP Mission Critical Facilities

Halfway to Zero Energy in a Large Office Building
Mark Hanson, Hoffman LLC/Vertegy
Steven Carlson, CDH Energy Corp.
Dan Sammartano, Alberici Constructors Inc.
Thomas Taylor, Vertegy

The Premium Economizer: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Reid Hart, Dan Morehouse, and Will Price, Eugene Water & Electric Board

Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings
Philip Haves and Robert Hitchcock, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kenneth Gillespie, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Martha Brook, California Energy Commission
Chris Shockman, Shockman Consulting
Joseph Deringer, The Deringer Group
Kristopher Kinney, QuEST

Moving Toward Transparency and Disclosure in the Energy Performance of Green Buildings
Adam Hinge, Sustainable Energy Partnerships
Donald Winston, The Durst Organization
Byron Stigge, Buro Happold

Radiant Night-Sky Heat Rejection and Radiant Cooling Distribution for a Small Commercial
David Houghton, Resource Engineering Group, Inc.

Sidelighting Photocontrols Field Study
Owen Howlett, Lisa Heschong, Jon McHugh, and Abhijeet Pande, Heschong Mahone Group, Inc.
Gregg Ander and Jack Melnyk, Southern California Edison Company
Steve Blanc, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
David Cohan, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance

IDeAs Z² Design Facility: Design for a Net Zero Energy Building
David K. Kaneda, Integrated Design Associates, Inc.
T. Scott Shell, EHDD Architecture
Peter H. Rumsey, Rumsey Engineers Inc.

Dynamic Controls for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response: Framework Concepts and a New Construction Case Study in New York
Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, and Dave Watson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Glenn Hughes, The New York Times

Low Energy Building Case Study: The Rest of the Story
Curtis Klaassen, Iowa Energy Center
Tom McDougall, The Weidt Group
Kevin Nordmeyer, RDG Planning & Design

Update on California Commercial Building Benchmarking
Nance Matson and Mary Ann Piette, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Martha Brook, California Energy Commission

Cost Effective Simplified Controls for Daylight Harvesting
Konstantinos Papamichael, Erik Page, and Keith Graeber, California Lighting Technology Center, University of California, Davis

Energy Savings from Daylighting: A Controlled Experiment
Scott Pigg and Abby Vogen, Energy Center of Wisconsin

LED Lighting in Interior Commercial Applications: Hype or a Real Contributor?
Jeffrey Schwartz and Paul Vrabel, ICF International

On-Site Generation Simulation with EnergyPlus for Commercial Buildings
Michael Stadler, Ryan Firestone, Dimitri Curtil, and Chris Marnay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Zero-Energy Economics
Ryan Stromquist, David Kaneda, and Nabeel Sultan, Integrated Design Associates, Inc.

Enhanced Refrigeration Diagnostics for an Improved Air Conditioning Tune-Up Program
Keith Temple and Todd Rossi, Field Diagnostic Services, Inc.

Zero Energy Buildings: A Critical Look at the Definition
Paul Torcellini, Shanti Pless, and Michael Deru, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Drury Crawley, U.S. Department of Energy

Strategies for Demand Response in Commercial Buildings
David Watson, Sila Kiliccote, Naoya Motegi, and Mary Ann Piette, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory