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    (Canceled) Energy Efficiency Forum: Dialing it in-building tuning strategies, April 23, Ladysmith, WI

  • 23 April 2020
  • Start time : 09:00 AM
  • End time : 02:30 PM
  • Event Host : Xcel Energy
  • Event Location : The Tee-Away Golf & Grill, 1401 East 11th Street North, Ladysmith, WI, 54848, United States
Energy Efficiency Forum: Dialing it in-building tuning strategies, April 23, Ladysmith, WI Xcel Energy
Event Description

Join for an informative half-day event dedicated to helping industrial and commercial customers “dial it in” by improving the energy efficiency and productivity of their facility. The featured topic includes a two-part workshop on building tuning processes and strategies that will highlight existing building commissioning, ventilation, heat recovery, and control strategies. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to network with colleagues, earn continuing education credits, and learn immediate tactics to reduce energy costs in your building.

As a result of this training, you will be able to:

  • Explain the steps of existing building commissioning.
  • Identify low cost/no cost energy efficiency opportunities to reduce energy consumption and lower costs with the equipment you have.
  • Identify strategies for optimizing outside air ventilation to meet process, health, and safety needs as efficiently as possible.
  • Discuss how to apply heat recovery innovations to minimize wasted energy.
  • Define holistic solutions to building controls.

Who should attend?

The forum targets commercial and industrial customers (specifically industrial facilities and large commercial customers). Facility managers, facility operators, plant engineers, maintenance personnel, account managers and representatives, engineers, contractors and anyone involved with operating or managing equipment and systems to improve energy efficiency will also find the forum of value.

  • Host Company/Organization Name
    • Xcel Energy
  • Agenda
    • 9 – 9:30 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast

      9:30 – 10 a.m. - Opening remarks

      Introductions and welcoming remarks from Xcel Energy account manager
      Updates on Xcel Energy’s electric vehicle program and charging stations
      10 – 10:15 a.m. - Networking break/table-top exhibits

      10:15 - 11:45 a.m. - Dialing it in - building tuning strategies (part 1)

      Presented by: Rebecca Ellis, PE, LEED AP BD+C, CCP, BCxP, CxA, president, Questions & Solutions Engineering; Miles Ryan, PE, CEM, mechanical commissioning engineer, Questions & Solutions Engineering

      Existing building commissioning
      Define performance criteria
      Documentation review
      Control system familiarization
      Field testing
      Identify/quantify low-cost/no-cost energy conservation opportunities
      Identify performance issues
      Implementation
      Ventilation (outside air)
      Under-ventilating
      Over-ventilating
      Filtration
      Building pressurization
      11:45 – noon - Networking break/table-top exhibits

      Noon - 12:45 p.m. - Lunch - Focus on Energy incentive program updates followed by Xcel customer case study. Learn how C&I customers deployed energy efficiency systems and technologies in their facility while also improving production processes.

      Presented by: Sadith Osseni, energy project manager, Cascades, John Radle, plant engineer, American Phoenix, Oscar Brandser, key account manager, Xcel Energy, Bill Lobner, Focus on Energy

      12:45 - 1 p.m. - Networking break/table-top exhibits

      1 - 2:30 p.m. - Dialing it in—building tuning strategies (part 2)

      Presented by: Rebecca Ellis, PE, LEED AP BD+C, CCP, BCxP, CxA, president, Questions & Solutions Engineering; Miles Ryan, PE, CEM, mechanical commissioning engineer, Questions & Solutions Engineering

      Heat recovery
      Ventilation-to-exhaust
      Process-to-HVAC
      Process-to-domestic hot water
      Thermal storage
      Controls
      Standalone vs. building automation systems
      Meeting without exceeding varying plant needs
      Integration
      Lighting controls
      Submetering
      2:30 p.m. - Energy efficiency forum concludes
  • Speakers / Presenters
    • Rebecca Ellis, PE, LEED AP BD+C, CCP, BCxP, CxA, president, Questions & Solutions Engineering

      Rebecca is a nationally recognized leader in the building commissioning industry. In addition to being a licensed professional engineer in 16 states, she is a LEED Accredited Professional and holds commissioning certifications from ASHRAE, the Building Commissioning Association, and the AABC Commissioning Group. She has master’s and bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and the University of Minnesota, respectively. She has helped define mainstream commissioning services and has written a monthly column about commissioning for Engineered Systems magazine for more than 20 years. Rebecca is founder and president of Questions & Solutions Engineering, a consulting engineering firm committed to working with facility owners and operators worldwide to achieve high performance from their new and existing mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems.

      Miles Ryan, PE, CEM, mechanical commissioning engineer, Questions & Solutions Engineering

      Miles is a licensed professional engineer with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Montana State University and a master’s degree in architectural engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He has ten years’ experience in the industry, getting his start as a civil engineering officer in the Air Force. He served in various roles overseeing the design, construction, and operation of facility mechanical systems at Grand Forks AFB, ND. In 2015, he became a mechanical systems instructor at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). Since leaving active duty in 2018 to join QSE, he has remained on faculty at AFIT as an Air Force Reservist to continue teaching courses in HVAC control systems as well as HVAC design and analysis.
  • Cost
    • FREE Event
  • Event type
    • Other

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