Building Tune-Up Accelerator Award Number: DE-EE0007556 CX(s) Applied: A9, A11, B5.1 Building Technologies Office Date: 8/3/2016 Location(s): WA Office(s): Golden Field Office
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August 11, 2016
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Building Tune-Up Accelerator
Award Number: DE-EE0007556
CX(s) Applied: A9, A11, B5.1
Building Technologies Office
Date: 8/3/2016
Location(s): WA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the City of Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment to implement their Building Tune-Up Accelerator project. The City of Seattle would engage with building owners, managers and service providers to develop market expertise and accelerate the voluntary, early implementation of mandatory energy-efficiency improvements in Seattle’s small to medium sized commercial buildings. This would be achieved through workforce and program development, design of individual improvement plans, implementation of energy-efficiency upgrades, and evaluation of subsequent energy savings.
Proposed workforce development activities would consist of curriculum and database development, classroom training for service providers, and the storage and loaning of diagnostic tools and would be completed by the Smart Buildings Center at their offices and conference rooms in Seattle, WA. Program development and design of improvement plans would include grant management and outreach managed by the Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment from their offices in Seattle; utility incentive development to be completed by Seattle City Light from their offices in Seattle; and research, technical assistance and energy modeling provided by the University of Washington from their Bullitt Center in Seattle. Necessary building energy audits and improvements to building-specific mechanical and lighting systems would be completed by City of Seattle service providers. Follow-up computational and advisory services would be provided by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA. All activities aside from energy audits and improvements are limited to purely intellectual, academic, or analytical activities and would use no materials other than basic office supplies, computers and software.