EMCOR

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Implementing Metering Measures to Maximize the
Efficiency of Buildings by Tim
Angerame Utility Programs and Metering II
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Agenda

• What is building oversight management?
• Metering, monitoring and submetering
• How is this a benefit?
• Why todays technology is insufficient?
• The difference between real-time interval data
  and instantaneous data.
• How should a metering system interface?
• Conclusion

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Building Oversight Management

• The key to continuous energy savings is the pay
  strict attention to the facility operations.
  Maintenance, training and continuous
  commissioning are required to maintain and
  protect the life and operation of your buildings
  equipment.
• UPM II acts as the outside source that works as
  an inside source for all energy and utility
  management needs.

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How is this metering and monitoring a benefit?

• Measure, quantify and verify actual energy
  management results
• Operational strategies and improvements
• Validate energy saving projects
• LEED Compliance and MV
• Continuous Commissioning
• Facilitate Demand Control
• Provide sub-metering of discreet loads and
  utility consumption

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Who Else is Advocating Metering and Monitoring?

• USGBC
• LEED Buildings
• NYSERDA
• ASHRAE
• IPMVP

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What is the benefit of metering building
performance?

• Submetering
• Paying for what actual utilities are consumed
• Benefiting from coincidental demand
• Verifying meter accuracy
• Indexing utility usage
• Documenting carbon footprint
• Verify common area costs are the lowest they
  could be.

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• Understanding and monitoring all the energy
  components of the building is essential when
  maximizing the energy consumption with maximum
  output.
• Each building is unique in its operation and how
  energy is utilized by its tenants.

Building Load
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Why todays technology is insufficient

• BAS systems cant process data fast enough.
• Maintaining data histories for 18 months is
  difficult.
• System analysis is cumbersome for engineers to
  analyze system performance in real-time.

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The Difference between real-time interval data
and instantaneous data

• Instantaneous data is great for control loops and
  continually running automation but not for
  understanding performance.
• Understanding performance through interval data
• Alarms
• Calculation of Performance
• Trending of data for eighteen months

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How should a monitoring system interface?

• Must be able to interface to connect BAS systems
  without adding any control devices.
• Easily obtaining data either through an ftp site
  or email.
• Integrate industrial BTU-meters and electric
  meters into the BAS.
• View as one platform.
• Push only information for the elimination of
  security problems.

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Conclusion

• Continuous monitoring is the only method towards
  understanding building performance and accurate
  utility consumption.
• Documentation and accurate data is essential when
  submitting for certifications and publication of
  energy efficiency.
• Indexing utility consumption to identify energy
  conservation measures will set standards and
  compare different facilties to each other.
• Remote monitoring, verification and validation by
  a third party ensures accurate results.
• If you cant measure it, you cant manage it.

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• Tim Angerame
• Sales Engineer
• Utility Programs and Metering II
• 135 West 36th Street
• New York, NY 10018
• P 1 212 260 4800
• M 1 917 710 6567
• timothy.angerame_at_up-m.com
• www.up-m.com