Build It Bright Solar and the Green Building Movement

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Build It BrightSolar and the Green Building
Movement
Ann Jones Gerace Executive Director Conservation
Consultants, Inc. RG08
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What is a Green Building?

• - Green buildings are designed to reduce the
  overall impact of the built environment on human
  health and the natural environment by
• - Efficiently using energy, water, and other
  resources
• - Protecting occupant health and improving
  employee productivity
• - Reducing waste, pollution and environmental
  degradation

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The Purpose of Green Buildings

• - Green Buildings help illustrate links between
  everyday life, energy efficiency, sustainability,
  and consumption of natural resources.
• Green Building projects provide an opportunity to
  raise awareness of environmental concerns to the
  general public.

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What LEED Measures

• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
  (LEED)
• LEED is an internationally recognized
  certification
• system that measures how well a building or
• community performs across all the metrics that
  matter
• most energy savings, water efficiency, CO2
  emissions
• reduction, improved indoor environmental quality,
  and
• stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their
• impacts.

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9 Key Areas a few examples of them
Sustainable Sites

• Discourages development on previously
  undeveloped land
• Minimizes a building's impact on ecosystems and
  waterways
• Encourages regionally appropriate landscaping
• Rewards smart transportation choices
• Rewards stormwater runoff
• Reduces erosion, light pollution, heat island
  effect and construction-related pollution.

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Energy Atmosphere

• Encourages a wide variety of energy strategies
  commissioning energy use monitoring efficient
  design and construction efficient appliances,
  systems and lighting the use of renewable and
  clean sources of energy, generated on-site or
  off-site and other innovative strategies.

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Materials Resources

• - Encourages the selection of sustainably grown,
  harvested, produced and transported products and
  materials.
• - Promotes the reduction of waste as well as
  reuse and recycling, and it takes into account
  the reduction of waste at a products source.

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Awareness Education

• Encourages home builders and real estate
  professionals to provide homeowners, tenants and
  building managers with the education and tools
  they need to understand what makes their home
  green and how to make the most of those features.

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Making the Biggest Impact in a Building
The biggest energy users in a building are
Heating and Cooling and Hot Water.
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Benefits of Renewable Energy

• Creates no climate changing emissions
• Cleaner air better quality of life
• - Increases independence from foreign sources
• of energy
• Can be distributed- power source closer to
• load bring benefits and efficiency to grid

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The American Clean Energy and Security Act (HR
2454)

• Currently being considered by the U.S House of
• Representatives.
• Promotes
• - Efficiency in new and existing buildings,
  complementing provisions to require the
• nation to obtain 20 percent of its
  electricity from
• renewable sources like wind and solar by
  2020.

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Solar Integrated Green Buildings

• CCI Center, Pittsburgh, PA

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Conservation Consultants, Inc. (CCI)

• - Conservation Consultants, Inc. (CCI) was
  established in 1978 to promote responsible energy
  use in homes and other buildings
• - CCIs expertise is in energy efficiency for
  homes and small to mid-sized businesses
• LIURP (low-income usage reduction programs) for
  regulated utilities in 50,000 Pennsylvania homes
• Parent the Green Building Alliance

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CCI Center Environmental Hub

• 12,000 sq. ft. commercial building
• Home to four environmental organizations
• CCI owner and operator

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CCI Center Adaptive Reuse

• Green renovation began in 1993

• Buildings originally constructed in 1910 (not
  including garage)

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CCI Center Design Goals

• Integrated design goals
• Energy efficient design
• Cost efficient design
• Environmentally sound materials and techniques
• Resource-efficient
• Recycling
• Water-efficient
• Non-toxic

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CCI Center Design Features

• Gas-fired heating and cooling
• Recycled steel studs and Agriboard addition
• Extensive daylighting
• High-performance operable windows
• Insulation levels in excess of codes
• T-8 fluorescent lamps with electronic ballasts
• Salvaged materials
• Access to gardens from every floor

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CCI PV
- 2.5 kW PV Array since 1998. Size to double this
summer. - 10 - 15 of our electricity comes from
our solar array
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DEP Southeast Regional Office BuildingNorristown
, PA

• LEED Gold Office Building is home to SERO, who
  oversees air quality, emergency response,
  environmental cleanups, waste management, water
  supply and water management, and radiation
  programs in the five-county area (Philadelphia,
  Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery).

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PV Features of SERO

• - 4.8-kW solar power system
• 30 160-watt-poly crystalline solar photovoltaic
  modules
• The panels generate approximately 5,343 kWh per
  year
• Ensures that the building can offer consistent
  and reliable services during blackouts.

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How Solar Fits with the Green Building Wave

• The biggest cost of a buildings operation is
  energy consumption
• Solar is more than a viable alternative to fossil
  fuels
• Renewables can significantly reduce the
  environmental impact of the building
• PV on a Green Building provides the ideal
  opportunity for public exposure (building as a
  teaching tool)
• Nearly every commercial building that meets
  LEED's energy efficiency demands has some type of
  solar energy system to offset its carbon footprint

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Tapping into the Green Building Network

• CCI 31 years young
• 1993 Renovated South Side office building,
  loose coalition supporting green building
• 1997 First Executive Director, GBA
• 1998 - Heinz Endowments, RK Mellon
• - 5 environmental organizations
• - CCIs commitment to solar mission of
  using energy wisely
• 2009 CCI offering solar installer training for
  new green workforce

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Green Building Alliance

• - GBA Professionals workshops, training ,
  community meetings, demonstration sites
• - Lunch and Learn brown bag lunch workshops

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Marketing

• - Green Building is often used in referring to
  new construction but it applies to retrofits, too
• - Home Performance for Energy Star
• For solar to become accepted and well-established
  in PA and other areas with plentiful existing
  housing, solar must be marketed for use in
  existing homes.
• - Demonstration Site (Building as a teaching
  tool)
• -100 years old -E-mod
• -PV solar/net metering -Solar thermal
• -Thousands of visitors annually