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Perseverance Pays Off with Energy Savings for Lab HVAC Control Project

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Title image source: VicktorCap from Getty Images via Canva.com Providing the required environmental conditions for lab experiments always takes priority over energy savings in laboratory buildings. This can create extra challenges for retrofit projects designed to improve sustainability. But with experience and perseverance, you can navigate through almost anything to achieve your energy and performance […]

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New Smart Labs Incentive Program Combines Sustainability and Safety

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We’re excited to announce our new Smart Labs Incentive Program, which brings the Smart Labs optimization process to Northern California’s lab buildings. With our partners 3Flow, we’re providing free technical assistance and incentives for implementing energy-saving solutions in laboratory buildings located in PG&E’s service territory. You may have heard of the Smart Labs process before.

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Increasing Lab Sustainability with Better Lab Benchmarking

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Earlier this year, I wrote about the brand new Lab Benchmarking Tool we developed with our partners at LBNL, I2SL, and DOE. I’m pleased to report that we’ve gotten lots of positive feedback since the LBT’s release! We’ve also been busy developing new features to enhance the tool, and it’s time for an update. The

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Smarter Lab Benchmarking is Here!

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I’ve written before about the special challenges of benchmarking lab buildings’ energy usage. It’s always been worth the extra effort, but I’m happy to report that we’ve finally made lab benchmarking a little bit easier. It’s my great pleasure to introduce the brand new Lab Benchmarking Tool (LBT)! kW Engineering designed and developed the LBT

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Sharing the Road to Lab Energy Efficiency with Principal Investigators

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A few years ago, I helped put together an I2SL guide for facilities staff who find themselves conducting energy projects in lab buildings – a daunting prospect for many! The guide contained a host of strategies for helping retrofit projects proceed successfully and to the satisfaction of engineers and scientists alike. I keep referring back

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A Plug for HVAC Savings from Efficient Lab Equipment

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We recently worked with our Center for Energy Efficient Labs partners My Green Lab and Frontier Energy on an Emerging Technologies study funded jointly by the three California IOUs. The study involved testing the energy performance of modern, high-efficiency ultra-low temperature (ULT; -80C) lab freezers and calculating the energy savings achievable via the use of

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Is Benchmarking Labs Worth the Effort?

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Energy benchmarking is often the first step in a new energy efficiency program or sustainable design project. Benchmarking helps us to prioritize and focus attention; it also provides useful metrics for target-setting or gauging progress. Lab buildings need benchmarking more than most. At first glance, the high energy intensities of labs make them appear wasteful

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