Energy Efficiency Innovation Center, Tool Library & Data Visualization
With support from Energy Trust of Oregon, Seattle City Light, Puget Sound Energy, and Washington State Department of Commerce, the Smart Buildings Center (SBC) provides our Tool Lending Library of energy monitoring and diagnostic tools, a free resource serving the commercial building operations sector in Washington and Oregon. Check out the latest tool videos weāve added to our Tool Lending Library Tutorials playlist on our YouTube channel, including titles such as:
The tools demonstrated (and many more) are available to borrow free of charge at the Smart Buildings CenterĀ website.Ā Follow us on ourĀ YouTube ChannelĀ for additional video tutorials and other smart buildings content!
2023 is almost over! We can’t believe it, it still feels like January. As we prepare for 2024 we took the time to look back on the year and celebrate some of our big accomplishments.
Thanks to you we celebrated our biggest Smart Buildings Exchange yet! We welcomed attendees from around the world and gathered live and in-person on Day 3 to listen to some amazing speakers, share successes, look to the challenges ahead, and enjoy an incredible view of the Seattle skyline. We can’t wait to do it all again next year! We hope you’ll all be there to join us at SBX 2024.
As we get ready to countdown to the new year let’s count UP all the amazing ways we broke records in 2023. Take a look at our End of Year Infographic below!
The Smart Buildings Center Tool Lending Library is excited to announce the latest addition to our tool inventory, the Fluke ii910 Precision Acoustic Imager, which can quickly pinpoint and measure leaks in compressed air, gas, steam, and vacuum systems, even in noisy environments. These types of leaks can be a huge waste of energy, and detecting them has traditionally been a tedious and time-consuming processā¦ until now.
Adam Sheffield, Flukeās Territory Sales Manager for Northern Washington, will join us at the Smart Buildings Center to share pro tips to help get the best results with this instrument. Weāll also have several units available for hands-on learning.
Participation in this event will qualify as 1.5 BOC credential maintenance points.
Thursday, March 9, 2:30-4pm
Smart Buildings Center
1200 12th Ave. S., Suite 110
Seattle, WA 98144
The Smart Buildings Center Tool Lending Library supported a yearlong project led by Mazzetti, a health care engineering, planning, and design firm, to study electricity use at eight hospitals across the country.
During the pandemic, Mazzetti, on behalf of the Fire Protection Research Foundation, studied electrical demand in hospitals. Although the study initially planned to look at electrical loads in multiple occupancies, after the pandemic started, Mazzetti realized there was a unique opportunityāfor the first time in a hundred years, since the 1918 flu pandemicāto look at electrical loads in hospitals during a pandemic.
Mazzetti borrowed Fluke 1730 3 Phase Logging Power Meters from the Tool Lending Library to measure electrical loads at hospital panels. These meters were installed at hospital panels and helped in conducting a robust study.
Our latest case study features a LEED Certification project for Kitsap Community Resourcesā Child Development Center in Bremerton, WA. OāBrien360 managed the LEED Certification process and utilized an airflow capture hood from the Smart Buildings Center Tool Lending Library to measure ventilation flow rates within the building. Download the case study to learn more about the project, improvements made, and lessons learned.
