Sustainable Building 2030

www.mn2030.umn.edu

The goal of this project is to introduce and pass legislation to establish cost-effective energy-efficiency performance standards (referred to as the Sustainable Building 2030 Standards) for new and substantially-reconstructed commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions by lowering energy use.

Download presentations from June 15, 2009 SB 2030 Advisory Group meeting:

1-John Carmody, CSBR: Sustainable Buildings 2030
2-The Weidt Group: Building Energy Benchmarks
3-Sheldon Strom & Russ Landry, CEE: Development of Utilities Conservation Programs and Cost Effective Analysis
4-LHB: Case Study Metrics
5-Peter Herzog, Herzog/Wheeler & Associates: Ongoing Operations

Download presentations from December 12, 2008 Advisory Group meeting:

1-Carmody: Introduction to SB 2030 Project
2-McDougall: Building Energy Benchmarks
3-Carter: Case Studies
4-Strom: Cost-Effective Analysis
5-Herzog: Ongoing Operations

The Sustainable Building 2030 Standards will address the following issues:

1. Training architects and designers to incorporate performance standards in building design,
2. Incorporating the performance standards into utility conservation improvement programs, and
3. Development of procedures for tracking energy use in buildings that have adopted the performance standards.

The development and justification of recommendations for specific energy-efficiency performance standards will be performed annually by qualified technical experts under subcontracts.

Other work that may be included:

1. Research, development, and demonstration of new energy-efficiency technologies and techniques suitable for commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings.
2. Analysis and evaluation of practices in building design, construction, commissioning, and operations.
3. Analysis and evaluation of energy use in the commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors
4. Analysis and evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Sustainable Building 2030 conservation improvement programs and building energy codes.
5. Development and delivery of training programs for architects, engineers, commissioning agents, technicians, contractors, equipment suppliers, developers, and others in the building industries, and
6. Analysis and evaluation of the effects of building operations on energy use.