SPC 211 Standard for Commercial Building Energy Audits

Meeting Minutes

October 17, 2014

Purpose of Meeting

Track progress of writing effort.

Coordinator

Jim Kelsey, Chair, VM

Attendees

Barry Abramson, VM
Chris Balbach, VM
Michael Bobker, CUNY, VM
Fred Goldner, VM
Adam Hinge, Sustainable Energy Partnerships, VM
Bruce Hunn, consultant, VM
Dennis Landsberg, L+S Energy Services Inc., VM
John Lee, NYC Mayor’s Office, VM
Paul Mathew, LBNL, VM
Ron Nelson, IMT, VM / Mark Baines
Michael Deru

Regrets

David Eldridge, Grumman Butkus Associates, VM
Ellis Guiles Jr., VM
Vince Galatro, Fulcrum Group, VM
Glenn Hourahan, ACCA, VM
Dawen Lu, VM
Tom Paxson, ACCA-ASHRAE, VM
Jim Vallort, ESD, VM
Marija Trcka, UTRC, VM
Joe Zhou, Iowa Energy Center, VM
Minutes, and announcements
o Called to order at 1:05 pm ET
o Minutes
Adam moved to accept the minutes from the September 4 meeting; Bruce seconded; all voted aye except two who did not attend and abstained; minutes approved
o Announcements
ASHRAE seeks comments on new EPA regulations; deadline for comment extended into November; ASHRAE is collecting member inputs; contact Jim for additional details
o Work plan
Targeting advisory public review (APR) as early as possible
§ want to stay ambitious but APR will likely follow the Chicago meeting
§ the timing for comments should allow feedback before the summer meeting
§ aim for APR one month after Chicago
Review of action items
o Data collection/reporting forms -- Adam, Fred, Bruce, Chris, and Joe
draft reporting form for level 2
Bruce scanned the draft Standard for references to the reporting forms and revised the text to indicate appropriate references to proposed normative and informative forms.
Fred circulated the normative portion of the form to members; the building use categories need to be updated; the informative portion not yet circulated
relationship to BEDES
§ the DOE has renamed BEDES Audit Use Case to BuildingSync; function remains the same
§ DOE has two asks
- SPC 211 become the home for BuildingSync
- Std 211 include in its data forms all the data needed to generate the DOE's new Asset Rating
§ Chris to identify any gaps in our draft of required data that would be needed for the Asset Rating; Chris to develop spreadsheet with data fields and columns for BuildingSync, Asset Rating, and Std 211 data forms; data not related to Std 211, e.g. campuses, should be ignored
§ Jayson Antonoff (IMT) is making a parallel assessment of gaps in data between the Asset Rating and the data sought by the Cities Project
§ a subcommittee of TC 7.6 would make a logical home for BuildingSync data
next steps
§ members provide feedback on current draft by email
§ the team recommends draft reporting form next month
§ Bruce to assess relationship to bEQ forms and level 1 audits
o Sections 5.3.5, 5.3.6, and 5.4.2 -- Bruce
revised and integrated into draft
section 5.4.2 needs additional update
§ reference to "other performance requirements" is ambiguous and open ended
§ committee updated the draft
o Level 2 report outline -- Barry
outline realigned to required procedures
all language for requirements removed
Michael B to review to see if any gaps have developed since his earlier draft of this report outline
appendices
§ what appendices should be prepared?
§ what appendices should be given to the client?
§ Fred and Michael B to sort out the issues and report back
Jim to incorporate the report outline into the draft
o Section 5.4.8 now included into the draft; Michael B to resend his comments
o Section 5.4.9 -- David Jump; work in progress
o Section 5.4.5 -- Dennis; revised; Dennis to see if updated version in "clean" draft
o Sections 5.4.8.5 and 5.4.8.6 -- Dennis
included in "clean" draft
Michael B to provide additional edits
New business
o BuildingSync
engage TC 7.6 as potential home
o DOE Asset Score
Chris to assess alignment issues with Standard, value to Standard, and rationale for possible inclusion
level 1 requirement?
§ perhaps too new to reference
§ further discussion tabled for today
o QC/QA
want to ensure the value of the reporting; don't need excess paper
Fred and Dennis to review 5.4.8.5 and 5.4.8.6 to ensure value and make recommendation
o terminology for "building owner"
draft currently references "owner" in places and "owner's representative" in others
henceforth use "owner or owner's representative"
Next steps
o each member dedicates a couple of hours to review the "clean" draft of the Standard
assess if it is ready for the APR
come to next meeting with questions and comments
o develop draft data forms in 2 weeks
o Conduct meetings as needed
Next call to be scheduled for mid-November; Jim will circulate a Doodle poll
o Chicago meeting January 26
o adjourn 3 pm ET