Rapid Building Assessment Project
Abstract
The Rapid Building Assessment demonstration project focused on determining whether FirstFuel's end-to-end solution can enable the DoD to scale energy efficiency initiatives across its large and varied building portfolio. FirstFuel analytics were applied to 100 Department of Defense (DoD) buildings in total across five different DoD specific categories ofbuilding types and 11 locations. The successful achievement of the performance objectives suggest that the FirstFuel RBA can present significant advantages for the DoD over traditional approaches to onsite energy audits and continuous performance monitoring. Traditional audits are too costly and time-consuming to deliver savings at scale, and yield reports that are often difficult to use for efficiency prioritization and planning. In contrast, FirstFuel's remote audits can be accomplished at a fraction of the cost and time, without a site visit, and at minimal complication to the site managers, while simultaneously yielding performance analysis results similar to ASHRAE Level II onsite audits (the comparison onsite used in this demonstration project). In addition, the FirstFuel remote analytics solution was found to be compatible with approximately 90% of the DoD's building portfolio.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA607537
Entities
People
- Swapnil Shah