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Commissioning High-Tech Facilities
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By Evan Mills, Ph.D.

igh-tech facilities have, at times, been passed over in the quest for energy savings, often under the pretense that they “must”

already be optimized or that they are mission critical and should not be disturbed. While it is true that these facilities receive a far higher level of quality assurance and optimization in construction and operation than traditional buildings, energy performance per se is often not a central focus. Energy-saving opportunities have received more attention in recent years, including successful efforts to commission new and existing buildings.

High-tech facilities include laboratories, data centers, cleanrooms, health care, and specialized research facilities such as particle accelerators. Although these buildings are specialized, they are also pervasive, occurring in:
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• Private industry (from semiconductor fabs to hospital operating rooms); • Educational institutions (from high school to university labs); and • The public sector (from agricultural research labs to high-energy physics facilities).
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Across the United States, high-tech facilities in the private and public sector have been estimated to spend upwards of $10 billion per year on energy.1 These facilities have a number of common characteristics, including around-the-clock operation, high airchange rates and critical activities and safety requirements that rely on proper indoor environmental control for building performance. In some cases, all of the air is once-through and/or requires dehumidification, with far larger volumes of air needing treatment than in conventional buildings. Together these requirements translate into particularly high energy intensities, and correspondingly large opportunities for energy savings. (For more on the energy efficiency potential in these facilities, see http:// hightech.lbl.gov.)2 About the Author
Evan Mills, Ph.D., is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ASHRAE Journal - November 2011

ASHRAE Journal - November 2011
Contents
Commentary
Industry News
Letters
Meetings and Shows
Feature Articles
Commissioning High-Tech Facilities
Streamlining Energy Simulation to Identify Building Retrofits
Technology Award Case Studies:
Laundry Upgrade
Creating a Healing Environment: Efficient Hospital
Standing Columns
Emerging Technologies
Products
Special Supplement: BACnet® Today and the Smart Grid
Commentary
BACnet: Operator Workstations
BACnet Alarming Revised
Information Model Standard for Integrating Facilities with Smart Grid
Demand Response and Standards: New Role for Buildings in the Smart Grid
Getting Smart on the Electrical Grid
Washington Report
Special Section
InfoCenter
IAQ Applications
Classified Advertising
Advertisers Index
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Meetings and Shows
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Commissioning High-Tech Facilities
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Laundry Upgrade
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Creating a Healing Environment: Efficient Hospital
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Products
ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Special Supplement: BACnet® Today and the Smart Grid
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Commentary
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - BACnet: Operator Workstations
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - BACnet Alarming Revised
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Information Model Standard for Integrating Facilities with Smart Grid
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - B20
ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - B21
ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - B22
ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Demand Response and Standards: New Role for Buildings in the Smart Grid
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - B27
ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - B28
ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Getting Smart on the Electrical Grid
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Washington Report
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