SBC News Archives - Smart Buildings Center

Clean Buildings: Building Efficiency Program Professional

September 26, 2019 By SBC

Commerce Specialist 4 – Buildings Unit [09481]

The Washington State Department of Commerce Clean Buildings program is seeking an energy professional to develop and implement an energy performance standard for existing commercial buildings and provide incentives to encourage efficiency improvements. This position requires a combination of the highest technical energy expertise, program implementation experience, and knowledge of Washington State’s clean energy initiatives. If you have the technical knowledge and communication skills to guide people through complex processes, we’d like to meet you. For the full position posting follow this link.

SBC welcomes voltage optimization company, Legend Power

September 10, 2019 By SBC

We’re Legend Power® Solutions Inc. and we’re really pleased to be up and running in the Smart Buildings Center! As we ramp up our presence in Seattle, we couldn’t think of more aligned organizations than NEEC and the SBC. We now have a presence in the Tool Lending Library (you can now borrow our proprietary Voltage Loggers to easily measure real time voltage in your building) and you can check out our interactive map of the scope of overvoltage across Seattle on SBC’s Smart Board.

Legend manufactures the SmartGATE™; an innovative energy conservation and management platform for high-performance buildings. We reduce your building’s energy usage by 3-5% and reduce the impact grid volatility has on your building.

After an initial meeting, a usual first step is to do a voltage profile of the building using our Voltage Logger, which you can borrow for free from SBC’s Tool Lending Library. It lets you see voltage. It simply plugs into a wall socket and records detailed voltage levels in the building. We recommend approximately 2 weeks of data. We download the data from the on-board SD card, from which we then provide the voltage profile for the period.

Curious about your building? Or a client’s building? Check for yourself if your building is over or under voltage, and what you could potentially be saving on energy. SmartGATE™ also improves your building’s resiliency by minimizing downtime due to voltage issues. We combined voltage readings from around town with publicly available Seattle City Light data to create our interactive map of overvoltage, and projected usage and savings. Check it out here: https://legendpower.com/markets/#Seattle, or at the Smart Buildings Center.

We don’t know your issues yet, so we don’t know if SmartGATE™ is a solution for you. But we do know that with almost 300 installed, 74% of our customers have purchased between 2 and 18 systems. They install SmartGATE™, it works, and they install more. We couldn’t put it better than our customer Spencer Wood, Director of Facilities Management at Humber College:

“It’s not like when you change a light… you just save on the light. You change this… you save on everything!”

Certified Energy Manager Training & Certification Opportunity

September 10, 2019 By SBC

The local AEE Columbia River Chapter will be hosting the Certified Energy Manager (CEM) training and certification in downtown Portland October 28th – November 1st. The five-day training seminar provides an in-depth, comprehensive learning and problem-solving forum through examining the fundamentals within key areas of energy management. Participants learn, system by system, how to diagnose and analyze energy savings opportunities. The CEM certification exam will be proctored on the final day of the training. If you’re interested in participating, you can learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gmuXjjN

One week until the next Why Smart Buildings event – don’t forget to register!

September 10, 2019 By SBC

This is your last chance to register for the ‘Why Smart Buildings? Creating a Compelling Business Case” on September 17th at the Pacific Tower from 11:30am – 2pm.

We will be discussing the latest in smart technologies during an expert (and unbiased!) panel discussion focusing on the business case for smart building technologies. This will be a fantastic event and we hope to see you there!

After the event concludes, we will also be hosting a Tool Lending Library Open House along with AESP Evergreen Chapter, we hope you can join us for some drinks and apps!

The Tool Lending Library Open House is free to attend and we will hear from tool manufacturer, Fluke, to provide a demonstration on some of the tools we offer through the library, like our IR camera, as well as a brand new leak detecting tool for compressed air or other gasses. Find out about energy savings opportunities during this demonstration directly from the manufacturer!

You don’t want to miss this event on Sept 17th – register today!

September 5, 2019 By SBC

At our next Why Smart Buildings event we are going to dive into the conversation around what smart building technologies have to offer to the commercial building world and how to create a compelling business case for investing in these technologies.

Join us for lunch and hear from unbiased experts in the industry that have real world experience in implementing smart technologies at the ‘Why Smart Buildings? Creating a Compelling Business Case” on September 17th at the Pacific Tower from 11:30am – 2pm. We will also be hosting a Tool Lending Library Open House directly after the event, we hope you can join us!