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UACLA Reduces Energy Use
S ONE OF THE WORLD’S Energy Information Administration reports leading universities, the Univer- that lighting can be up to 40 percent of an sity of California, Los Angeles organization’s energy bill each year—a
(UCLA) is committed to environmental re- sponsibility and sustainability. Part of that commitment is ensuring that all energy is used wisely.
Kevin Borg is UCLA’s assistant athletic director for facilities and project man- agement. He is charged with driving maximum performance from each facility across the school’s intercollegiate pro- grams. Borg also is accountable for stew- arding the budget needed to build and run each facility in an increasingly demanding economic and regulatory environment.
California’s tough new Title 24 regula- tions demand that organizations with large- scale buildings, campuses, and facilities networks prove they are reducing energy usage across their operations each year. The
statistic that rings true with Borg.
After easily retrofitting Audacy’s wire-
less devices into existing light fixtures and infrastructure, UCLA used simple occu- pancy/vacancy, task tuning, and dimming approaches to achieve a 35 percent savings in their overall electrical lighting load. The Audacy system provides the UCLA facilities managers the ability to manage, monitor, and adjust their organization’s lighting sys- tem from a laptop, tablet, or smartphone from anywhere in the world.
Over the 12-month test period, Borg and his team consistently delivered at least a 35 percent reduction in total energy usage “just by delivering the right amount of light to the right room at the right time.” Borg explains, “The most efficient light is
UCLA has achieved a 35 percent savings in their overall electrical lighting load after retofitting Audacy’s lighting control devices into existing infrastructure.
one that is off. So, we’re now set up to auto- matically program lights to turn off when a room isn’t being used.”
“It’s a game-changer,” says Borg. “The Audacy system allows us to optimize both our lighting and energy usage from building to building. It’s simple. Intuitive. Effective.”
www.audacywireless.com
TUMass Reduces Heat Loss, Earns LEED Gold
HE FIVE-STORY 310,000- the effect of sunlight.
square-foot Life Science Laborato- An additional energy-saving strategy ries building at UMass Amherst is was required to mitigate the potential of
designed to foster collaboration among fac- ulty and student researchers. Also designed to qualify for LEED Gold certification, it employs a range of advanced measures to slash energy usage, carbon emissions, and related costs.
Sustainability is especially challenging for a research facility, which typically consumes more energy than comparable buildings.
To meet safety and functional require- ments of the building while minimizing energy use, Wilson Architects and Lim Consultants specified low-flow fume hoods and plumbing fixtures, energy-recovering air handling units and heat recovery chillers, water reclamation and recycling systems, sensor-controlled lighting and water-cooled systems, while maximizing
thermal bridging through steel beams that penetrated the insulated building envelope to support a 300-foot glass canopy span- ning the length of the building’s façade.
However, exterior steel cantilevers supported by interior structural steel would cause interior heat to be conducted through the cantilevers and dissipated into the environment, requiring steel-to- steel insulation in the form of structural thermal breaks, or “STBs.”
The canopy support structure consists of 40 steel beams spaced approximately 10 feet apart. Wilson Architects specified an Isokorb® Type S22 STB supplied by Schöck North America to be positioned where the cantilevers penetrate the insulated building envelope, reducing heat loss by approxi-
UMass Amherst reduced heat loss through steel canopy beams by half at its LEED Gold-certified Life Science Labo- ratories building using structural thermal breaks.
mately 50 percent at each penetration. With the energy-saving technologies in place, including structural thermal breaks
for the canopy support structure, the lab saves approximately $300,000 in energy costs per year. CPM
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