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Commissioning Resources - Large Buildings
Funding for the development of this web page was provided for by Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance and DOE Rebuild America Program
- Overview
- Commissioning of Buildings
- Government Resources
- Efficient Building Operation
- Financing Energy Retrofits-Schools
- Financing Energy Retrofits-Government
Program Overview
- Buildings - Commissioning and Energy Conservation: Are you...
- Responsible for maintaining commercial, institutional or multi-family facilities?
- Planning any building construction, remodeling or HVAC and lighting system/control improvements?
- Interested in reducing operating costs, discomfort, unscheduled operation disruptions and/or ventilation problems?
- Definition of Commissioning for new and existing buildings
- Commissioning of buildings is the systematic process of ensuring that the complex array of equipment that provides heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, and other amenities in buildings is designed, installed, tested to perform interactively and determined capable of being operated and maintained according to the design intent and the building owner's operational needs.
- How to use this website
- If you are interested in more information regarding the commissioning programs available in Montana, double click on the appropriate Commissioning Program Resources. The Montana Rebuild Program provides a one-stop contact to assist in sorting through the various programs. For additional building commissioning resources, click on the underlined "Links of Interest."
If you answered "yes" to any of the above, you may be interested in commissioning your building.
Resources and Links of Interest
- Pre-qualified Retro-Commissioning Authority List
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued a Request For Qualifications (RFQ) to develop a list of pre-qualified individuals and firms to conduct Retro-Commissioning projects for K-12 public schools, community hospitals, community colleges, universities, state buildings, and federal buildings in Montana under the State Energy Program. This list of individuals or engineering firms have successfully submitted qualifications through the RFQ process to conduct Retro-Commissioning projects.
- Commissioning Program Resources:
- DOE Rebuild Building Commissioning Manual - "Guide"
- Montana Building Commissioning Projects (funded by Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance)
- Montana Commissioning Case Studies Published (Existing & New Public Buildings):
- Cx-Overview 09-02-03
- Army Aviation 04-28-04
- East Valley Middle School 09-02-03
- Gallagher School 04-28-04
- Wallace Building
04-28-04
- Montana Rebuild
- State Buildings
- Schools and Hospitals (also see Rebuild America and Energy Smart Schools)
This Guide is written to aid building owners and retrofit project managers involved with HVAC and lighting systems and control improvements of existing buildings.
Best Practices in Commissioning in the State of Montana
- Commissioning of Buildings
- State of Oregon
- State of Idaho
- Better Bricks
- Building Commissioning Association
- PECI (Portland Energy Conservation, Inc.)
- Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA)
- State of Montana A&E
- National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) State programs with links to their sites
- Florida Design Initiative
- Texas A&M Energy Systems Lab
- Association of Energy Engineers
- Western Regional Coalition for Energy Performance Contracting
- ASHRAE (Association of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers)
- National Association of Energy Service Companies (NAESCO)(Energy performance contracting)
- Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (Strategies for universities and colleges)
U.S. Government Agencies
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (general information and resources)
- DOE Denver Regional Office
- DOE Seattle Regional Office
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Oakridge National Labs (Rebuild America Financial Services)
- U.S. DOE "Building Commissioning - The Key to Quality Assurance,"Rebuild America Guide Series (DOE/EE - 0153, March 1998
- Building Technology Center (Energy efficiency research, demonstrations and technology transfer)
- Energy Fitness Program (Support and procedures for energy performance contracting)
- Rebuild America (Technical support and financing advice for community partnerships)
- Resources from Other Federal Agencies
- Energy and Technology
- Sponsors
- Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance)
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance is a nonprofit group of electrical utilities, state governments, public interest groups and industrial representatives committed to bringing affordable energy-efficient products and services to the market place in the Northwest.
The Alliance is promoting "Commissioning of Public Buildings in the Northwest." The goal of this project is to make commissioning standard practice in public buildings in the Pacific Northwest states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.
- Montana Rebuild America
The Montana Rebuild Program is a voluntary network of community partnerships made up of local governments and businesses that save money by saving energy. Montana Rebuild is funded through a grant from the US DOE Rebuild America Program.
Both the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance and the DOE Rebuild America Program promote building commissioning to maximize building performance and energy efficiency.
- Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance)
