New research on rooftop units (RTUs) is now available from the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program. Unitary RTUs are responsible for cooling at least half the floor space in commercial buildings in the U.S., yet their actual energy performance is below what it could or should be with today’s technologies.

Join us to learn about updates in two key areas of heating and cooling performance improvement in the light commercial buildings sector: (1) advanced controls and (2) performance monitoring, including fault detection and diagnostics (FDD).

Speakers:

Mark Cherniack, Senior Program Manager, New Buildings Institute
Kristin Heinemeier, Senior Engineer, Western Cooling Efficiency Center, University of California at Davis

You will learn:

• How the use of RTUs today affects a building’s overall energy performance tomorrow
• What are the available products, services, and behaviors related to HVAC operations and maintenance that define minimum FDD requirements for RTUs
• What product features are available for codes and standards consideration
• How the inclusion of performance monitoring and FDD in Title 24 will affect building requirements
• What new RTU performance monitoring and advanced control products are entering the market

Who should attend:

Professionals in the building industry, office managers, building asset managers, mechanical engineers, and utility commercial program managers

The characterization and approaches of performance monitoring and FDD from PIER funding is led by New Buildings Institute in conjunction with the Western Cooling Efficiency Center and in collaboration with the California utilities Codes & Standards Enhancement program. Results from this research have contributed to a new code proposal mandating fault detection functionality on RTUs for the California 2013 Title 24 code revision.

For more information about attending this web conference, please contact Customer Service or call 1-800-376-8723 option 6.