December 2021 Our podcast, Building HEROes completed its first series this year. The series entitled; Learning from the Greats, included four episodes with individuals from all sides of the industry to help teach people just like you about the built environment and those that inhabit it. Speakers included Lisa Heschong, Barbara Erwine, Steve Brooks, Martin […]
December 14th, 2021 With support from WSU’s Revolving Energy Fund (REF) and NEEA’s BetterBricks Program, the ID+CL has completed the first phase of implementing a tenant engagement program designed to help building occupants on the WSU Pullman campus manage their personal comfort while learning strategies to save energy while on campus. Project Goals: Reduce energy […]
December 8th, 2021 The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC) program seeks to: (1) accelerate the adoption of LLLCs by addressing barriers such as cost, product readiness, value propositions, and (2) to increase awareness of LLLCs as a cost-effective option for commercial new construction, renovation, and retrofits. To assist with these efforts, our […]
December 2021 Our goal with the tenant engagement program is to help teach building users strategies to reduce their personal energy consumption, change departmental habits of energy use, and deliver useful information that you can use to improve your comfort. The three objectives of this campaign are to improve the energy efficiency of WSU facilities, […]
October 21, 2021 This project team will develop Building Operator: Grid-Occupant (BOGO) training modules to expand the training of entry-level building operators beyond a focus on energy efficiency and peak demand reductions, to include energy flexibility. Such grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) can shed, shift, and modulate their load to provide added value to the grid. […]
October 6th, 2021 For Energy Efficiency Day 2021, the ID+CL Tenant Engagement Team handed out 48 9w LED lightbulbs to employees working in French Administration and Lighty Student Services buildings on the Pullman campus to help reduce energy use in targeted departments as a part of the Energy and Comfort at WSU campaign. Each individual […]
September 10, 2021 (posted on behalf of ID+CL partner, Lighting Design Lab of Seattle) Seattle City Light has contracted with D&R International and Ecotope to deliver an instructor-led virtual Commercial Heat Pump Water Heating educational series starting in September, hosted by LDL, and having deliveries go through Q1 2022. We are taking registrants on the education page of […]
August 30, 2021 After a year of preparation and program design, the WSU Tenant Engagement program has begun! If you are an employee working in the WSU Pullman Campus French Administration, Lighty Student Services, or Smith Center for Undergraduate Education buildings, you will be seeing guidance designed specifically for you in the coming weeks. These […]
August 13, 2021 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced nearly $83 million in funding for 44 projects that will lower Americans’ energy bills by investing in new energy-efficient building technologies, construction practices, and the U.S. buildings-sector workforce. DOE’s Building Technologies Office competitively selected these projects from its Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) funding opportunity announcement. […]
July 17, 2021 Life and buildings have changed significantly over the last several decades. Many buildings are becoming highly sophisticated with building controls and automation. On one hand, these controls can be helpful in terms of energy savings and safety, for instance. However, on the other hand, some controls may not be intuitive or certain […]