Technical Session

ASHRAE bEQ and ASTM BEPA: What the Difference Is Between Them – and How You Can Use Them

Energy benchmarking for commercial buildings is gaining momentum. Dozens of cities and states already require, or are considering requirements for, buildings to publicly share their Energy Use scores.

This is good news to building owners whose buildings are energy efficient, but not particularly good news to those whose buildings are not. In most cases, EPA’s Energy Star® Portfolio Manager, or ASTM’s BEPA Standard (Building Energy Performance Assessment) together with ASHRAE’s new bEQ label (Building Energy Quotient), will form the basis for these scores.

In this live webinar, building owners and managers, architects, and mechanical or electrical design engineers, will learn what information is required to create a building’s Energy Use Index or report card, how that information is collected, and what the results can mean. Another live webinar, “Transforming Older Buildings into High Performance Facilities,” covers strategies for improving the energy scores of low-performing buildings – and many of these are low-cost and even no-cost.

Jim Newman, CEM, LEED AP BD+C, ASHRAE BEAP & OPMP, FESD, participated as an energy auditor in the pilot program for the new ASHRAE Building Energy Quotient (bEQ) program to measure, verify and certify energy used by commercial buildings.

 As a certified Building Energy Assessment Professional he draws on his many years of experience conducting energy audits, and implementing green and sustainable practices in buildings around the world. 

Learning Objectives

• Understand BEPA, bEQ and Energy Star and the similarities and differences among them
• Understand the Energy Use Index (EUI) and its background
• Learn methods to improve the rating of an existing building
• Discover why buildings with better scores, i.e. lower energy costs, will command higher rent and/or sale prices.
• Find out how to use the bEQ to your advantage, both from a functional and a marketing standpoint

Dinner Program

Green & Sustainable Practices and ASHRAE Standards

How to Design a Healthier, More Profitable Building with Better Coordination with Owners and their Team

In this session, you will learn how to surpass ASHRAE Standards to better design building systems in conjunction with other disciplines and with the Owner. This will help conserve energy, enhance the health, well-being and productivity of the building occupants, and save (read that “make”) more money for the building owner. Jim Newman draws on his many years of experience teaching ASHRAE standards and implementing green building practices in buildings around the world to help you understand why going “green” makes sense in tough times, and how to work with the building team to meet market demands. 

Learning Objectives

• Identify how to coordinate better with other disciplines (including owners)
• Recognize why people don’t want to change (especially building engineers) – and how to help them
• Modify design practices to broaden your horizons, excite your designs and excite your people
• Find resources to develop your expertise in sustainable design practices
• Apply ASHRAE Standards to help you accomplish more sustainable design practices

Discover what’s happening to codes for the building industry in North America and around the world – and how buildings are changing to meet and surpass the codes

Speaker

JAMES L. NEWMAN

Owner / Managing Partner
Newman Consulting Group, LLC

Jim Newman is an active member of many technical societies, a member of the Construction and Design Committee and of the Speakers Bureau of the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD), and ESD’s spokesperson on energy and environmental issues. He is a Fellow of the ESD.

Jim is a trainer for ASHRAE Energy Standard 90.1 and has trained hundreds of architects, engineers, code officials, and contractors on the use of the Standard. He has been active in several ASHRAE TCs, was Vice-chair of the Industrial Air Conditioning TC in the 1970s, chaired many symposia and was responsible for the rewrite of 10 chapters in the Applications Guide and Data Book during that time. He has also been active on TC 5.5, Air-to-Air Energy Recovery, for the past 12 years. He was a member of the committee that developed ASHRAE’s Energy Policy Document for 2008 and a Provisional Energy Auditor for the pilot program of the ASHRAE Building Energy Quotient (bEQ).

He is a member of the Energy and Environment Committee of BOMA International, Chair of the Sustainability Committee of the Detroit BOMA chapter, a past Board member of the Detroit Regional Chapter (DRC) of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and of the Detroit ASHRAE chapter. Jim is Past Chair of the Public Policy Committee of USGBC-Detroit Regional Chapter (DRC), and makes presentations to municipalities on how they can Green their cities and attract Green development.

Jim lectures at area colleges and universities, is a frequent speaker on radio and television programs, and provides webcasts and podcasts to varied audiences on Indoor Air Quality, Energy, Sustainable Buildings and Proper Operating and Maintenance Techniques..

Jim has published numerous papers on Indoor Air Quality, Energy Conservation and USGBC and LEED, and is an internationally recognized speaker on these issues and on Green Design and Efficient Operating and Maintenance practices. His most recent book, co-authored with two attorneys, Current Critical Issues in Environmental Law – Green Buildings and Sustainable Development, was published by Lexis Nexis in June 2008.

He writes a periodic column for the monthly Newsletter of the Detroit ASHRAE Chapter on LEED and Sustainable Design and is LEED Project Administrator for many LEED-certified buildings in the United States as well as elsewhere in the world, with certifications ranging from Certified to Platinum in many different categories