What are some innovative green building technologies you have seen?
Submitted by mproul on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 - 8:57 AM
GSA’s Green Proving Ground (GPG) program is working to make our buildings more efficient and minimize resource consumption. GPG is proud to release the evaluation results for three innovative technologies:
Daylight Harvesting
Biomass Boiler Systems
Condensing Boilers
Please let us know some of the most innovative green building technologies you have seen.
<p>This company, Blue Penguin (bluepenguin.com), says they can reduce building energy consumption by 20% in 12 months and they offer a money back guarantee. They do this through collection and analysis of megadata in buildings. They've got an impressive client list.</p>
Posted 10/09/2014 11:53 AM
mproul
<p>This recent post on GSA's blog discussing the opening of the Puerto Rico passport office mentions some of the energy efficient building technologies being used:</p><p><a href="http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/gsablog/2014/09/24/energy-efficient-puerto-rico-u-s-passport-office-opens/">http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/gsablog/2014/09/24/energy-efficient-puerto-rico-u-s-passport-office-opens/</a></p>
Posted 09/30/2014 3:57 PM
JudyBradt
<p>GSA HQ is cutting workstation energy consumption by 30% using the HiSaver surge protector (available on GSA Schedule). This power strip has a sensor attached, which senses when there is no human moving at the workstation, and shuts down peripherals after a specifiec time period of inactivity, and also shuts down the standby power when the user powers down the workstation. I'd like to get in touch with people who are either using it now, or want to know more about it</p>
Posted 09/23/2014 10:00 PM
cwtesco
Retro-Commissioning also uncovers building pressurization problems that also requires additional energy consumption to cool outside air drawing through doors and windows.
Posted 08/06/2014 2:47 PM
cwtesco
Retro-Commissioning of existing buildings uncovers often over-looked wasted energy consumption. We have found outside air dampers improperly set to allow more CFM than building usage requires. thus requiring additional energy to heat and/or cool outside
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