Commercial Efficiency Book

Energy-Efficient Operation of Commercial Buildings: Redefining the Energy Manager’s Job

by Peter Herzog

Peter Herzog’s excellent reference, Energy Efficient Operation of Commercial Buildings, is back in print and available through NEEI.

Today’s commercial buildings are complex super-systems that rely, not only on the efficient operation of individual equipment components, but on sub-systems of these components, and on control systems. Over time components and systems tend to wander from their design operational points and controls tend to drift from their set-points. Typically this means less efficient operation and greater energy and operation costs. Often this decreased performance goes unnoticed.

LCC STUDENT SELECTED FOR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

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Note: Cody Fish is also previous student of the Energy Programs at the Northwest Water and Energy Education Insitute (NWEEI)

PORTLAND, Ore. – May 15, 2013 – Lane Community College student Cody Fish has been selected as one of the nation’s top rising young leaders in the sustainable energy sector by national non-profit organization Focus the Nation.

Twenty students from across the country have been selected for their dedication, passion, and unique contribution to advancing sustainable energy in America. The young leaders—five each in the categories of Technician, Innovator, Politico, and Storyteller—will meet for one week on August 11th, 2013 on Oregon’s Mt. Hood at the ReCharge! Retreat to explore an area of the country where energy is accelerating towards renewables.

NWEEI Works with SEED as Rose State College Mentor

AACC’s SEED Center Mentor Connect program pairs best-in-class green colleges with “mentee” colleges in an effort to build and expand programs that prepare students for careers in clean energy and sustainability-related fields. The benefits of peer mentoring are well-documented, but this project (documented in SEED's new report marks the first time the concept has been applied on a national scale to green and sustainability programs at community colleges. With 470 community colleges pursuing sustainability in some form, and with many struggling to define the curricular opportunities, this kind of technical assistance can be an effective way to replicate the most innovative community college practices. The LCC Water and Energy Program is a featured mentor college.

Read the Entire Article Here: ACC-Mentor-Connect-Report-2013.pdf04/11/2013

Lane's Energy Management students excited about 90,000-square-feet lab

Lane Community College Energy Management Program Coordinator Roger Ebbage talks with students

By Bonnie Henderson
Origionally Published by LaneCC Marketing & Public Relations
March 2013. Article source: http://www.lanecc.edu/mpr/success/story91.htm

When Lane Community College Energy Management Program Coordinator Roger Ebbage calls the new downtown campus academic building "the building that teaches," students believe it.

"The first week we were just walking around with our necks craned, looking up," says student Amy Hill, 27. They were looking at the ceiling, where intentional gaps in acoustical tiles expose the building's essential heating, electrical, and water systems.

The building opened to students in January 2013, but the program has been around for more than two decades. It is still one of just a handful of community college energy management programs in the country, thanks in part to generous support from the Eugene Water and Electric Board. Classes used to be scattered around Lane's main campus, Ebbage notes; if instructors wanted students to see a particular heating or water system, "we had to leave our building and go to another building on campus or downtown to see it. Now they're all inside the same building shell."

LCC and EWEB continue internship program

Two new LCC interns at EWEB - EWEB's current LCC interns, Roy Smith and Lief Hochendoner

The Eugene Water & Electric Board has been an active participant and supporter of the Lane Community College Energy Management Program since its inception in 1980. The program has produced graduates with a 95 percent placement rate into family-wage jobs. Students have found positions in private and public organizations under a wide variety of job titles in Eugene and throughout the Northwest. EWEB over the past few decades has offered more than 30 LCC students internship opportunities in its Commercial and Residential Energy Management Services departments.

Entire article: LCCand_EWEBcontinue_internship_program.pdf03/15/2013
Origional article Link: EWEB Efficiency By Design – Spring 2013

Lane Community College to hold Downtown Center open house

By Chris McKee
Origionally Published on kmtr.com : March 1, 2013

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LCC will hold an open house to showcase the new Downtown Center on March 15. While hundreds of students and teachers have been using the building for classes over the last two months, the college says it now wants to show the community the all of the features inside.

Building representatives say the Downtown Center is basically “one giant classroom” from the top floor down thanks to several green elements and the incorporation of real building function into the student work environment.

On the green side, the building is going after a LEED Platinum status. LEED Platinum is one of the highest rankings for sustainable building projects as set by the U.S. Green Building Council. Throughout its design and construction, crews incorporated elements like a significant use of natural light, using the heat of the earth to help control air temperature, also using plants and water to help shed and reuse rainwater.

Entire article: KMTR_LCC-toholdOpenhouse.pdf03/11/2013
Origional article Link: Lane Community College to hold Downtown Center open house

Energy efficiency curriculae: where it all started
By Jane Pulaski -- Origionally Published on irecusa.org: May 16, 2011 - A version of this article appeared as a feature in the IREC email newsletter

Feature: Energy Efficiency Education: a conversation with NEEi's Roger Ebbage

Roger’s a very compelling (though modest) kind of guy.  Back in 1992, he convinced Lane Community College (LCC) to hire him as its Energy Management Coordinator, and (not surprisingly) transformed a moribund program into the national model for energy education.  We all owe him, big time.  Today, as the Northwest Energy Education Institute’s (NEEi) Director of Energy and Water Programs, Roger’s visionary work continues—he’s busier than ever.  I called him on Earth Day (how appropriate) to chat about his work and the changes he’s seen over the past two decades.  As with the first time we talked, Roger was gracious, compelling and modest.  Read more...

irec-energyefficency-education_rogerebbage_neei.pdf

Community College Training for Managing Green Jobs

By Elizabeth Olson
Origionally Published on nytimes.com: August 25, 2010 - A version of this article appeared in print on August 26, 2010, on page F8 of the New York edition.

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Government money is helping smaller institutions build programs that train students in various emerging and established energy fields.

Entire article:  community_colleges_on_green_studies_nytimes.pdf
Origional article Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/education/26GREEN.html