The What: The Zero Net Energy Early Adopters Leadership Network will host its series’ third workshop titled “Developing Your ZNE Plan” along with a tour of the host facility, the LEED Platinum SMUD East Campus – Operations Center, one of the largest net zero energy projects in North America. The Workshop is designed to help public sector leaders create and advance their ZNE building knowledge, plans and policies, and will provide strategies for communication, planning, design, and financing. Following the issuance of the California Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan to achieve Zero Net Energy for all new commercial buildings by 2030 and the California’s Governor’s 2013 Executive Order B-18-12 requiring all new state buildings be ZNE by 2025, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) asked New Buildings Institute (NBI) to help create ZNE leadership in the public sector, advance adoption of ZNE in the market, and convene a group of public sector “Early Adopters” to develop strategies that would enable successful ZNE projects.
The When: Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
The Where: Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Rubicon Room, 6301 S St., Sacramento, CA, 95817 United States
The Who:
- Staff from local governments, state agencies, K-12 schools, institutions of higher education, and utilities.
- Design teams of ZNE public buildings.
The How: Sign up for the event and/or to receive updates from the New Building Institute, please to go to Survey Monkey. Space is limited so sign up now.
The Details: Participants can advance their knowledge of ZNE buildings and market trends, gain valuable tools and resources for developing zero net energy plans and policies, hear case studies of new ZNE public projects, get a tour of the new SMUD ZNE Operations Center, and benefit from an opportunity to connect and share lessons learned with other public sector ZNE leaders. One of the presentations will be on California’s first ZNE library, the West Berkeley Public Library designed by Harley Ellis Devereaux.
Designed by Stantec and built by Turner Construction, SMUD’s new LEED Platinum certified, 51-acre East Campus Operations Center is slated to become the largest, most sustainable fleet operations campus in the United States. The new, super-green campus will be a Net Zero Campus producing sufficient energy on-site using solar photovoltaics and solar thermal panels to power the campus. Energy saving strategies such as low-energy heating, cooling, and lighting are utilized, including displacement and evaporative cooling, external shading, light louvers for enhanced day lighting, ceiling fans, chilled beams, geothermal energy storage, radiant slab heating and cooling, use of building exhaust air to precondition incoming air, and a heat recovery heat pump system all help save an estimated 3.7 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year.
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