May 12, 2021 | 12pm – 1pm
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This free webinar will benefit: building managers, leasing professionals, project managers, space planners, and architects.

As tenants and property professionals prepare for increasing numbers of tenants returning to the office, many are considering alterations to tenant spaces. BOMA is offering this free webinar to members and non-members to clarify the design and configuration requirements of the current building code.

Among the topics covered will be calculating the occupant load of spaces. The building code requires all spaces to be loaded fully for the purpose of egress capacity and plumbing fixture requirements. These code requirements do not reflect the non-simultaneous manner that office spaces may be used where the occupants of conference rooms are drawn from surrounding open office area. The number of occupants per suite may require limitation in order to not overload the egress system or the plumbing fixture capacity of the story. Maximum occupant limitations for individual spaces and meeting the egress requirements per suite will be discussed.

Speakers:
Ardel Jala, PE, Building Official, City of Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections
Richard Pellinger, Building Plans Examiner Supervisor, City of Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections
Amie Joyce, IIDA, LEED, ID & C, Weaver Architects

Topics:

1. SDCI policies for designating a space as Assembly, Office Areas, or the non-simultaneous business use areas (new in 2018 SBC) and the resulting code impacts.
2. SDCI policies around non-simultaneous occupancy for the purpose of determining egress, plumbing fixtures or risk category designation.
3. Design and treatment of smaller tenant suites.
4. Egress design and review of multi-suite office floors and full floor tenant improvements. Including review of occupant loads from a single-tenant and the potential impact to other tenant spaces based on the existing egress capacity from the story.
5. Code compliant options to increase existing egress capacity – Sprinklers, Fire alarm, horizontal exits
6. What does post-pandemic return to work look like?

Wednesday May 19^th
10-11 a.m. PDT
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The COVID-19 pandemic has increased awareness of the critical role that buildings play in our personal health, well-being and happiness. As we build back from the pandemic, the industry is rethinking how we approach health in commercial spaces. Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC) can achieve substantial energy savings (on average up to 63%) and represent the most intuitive, flexible lighting control systems on the market. Beyond these benefits, they can also influence how buildings impact our health. With sensors in every fixture, LLLC offers buildings a distributed mesh-network throughout a space. This has the potential to revolutionize how we monitor and respond to environmental factors that impact human health. Learn how LLLC could be used in countless ways to improve health and efficiency, including:

• Space utilization and optimization
• Asset tracking
• Security and safety
• Ventilation and thermal comfort
• Visual comfort and circadian dosing

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Clean Buildings – Getting to Efficiency

A four-part webinar series

WSU Energy Program no-cost webinars for Resource Conservation Managers, Energy Managers, and Sustainability Managers at public facilities in Washington State (others welcome to attend as space allows)

Operations & maintenance (O&M) and energy management plans (EMP) required for the Washington State Clean Buildings Performance Standard (CBPS) are the focus of this four-part webinar series hosted by the Washington State University Energy Program and presented by Neil Bavins, BOC instructor. While much attention is given to the pathways of compliance for CBPS, this series explores the CBSP requirements of developing EMP and O&M plans, as well as beginning to reduce building energy use.

Each webinar has up to an hour of presentations and a half hour for Q&A. Please register for each separately.

Efficiency through the Clean Buildings Performance Standard March 30, 12:00-1:30 Pacific Gain an understanding of how to use the CBPS and ASHRAE 100 Standard, on which the CBPS is based. Components of the CBPS, including various roles will be discussed. Building Tune Ups as a beginning strategy will be introduced, and explored more fully in the next webinar. Register for Webinar 1

Tune Ups for Clean Buildings April 21, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Pacific Building Tune Ups are a great strategy to prepare for compliance with the energy management plan and O&M plan sections of the CBPS, and at the same time start reducing energy use. Attendees will walk through a Tune Up process, and detailed attention will be given to finding efficiency measures in building systems. Register for Webinar 2

Energy Management Plans for Clean Buildings May 19, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Pacific A requirement for compliance with the CBPS is to develop and maintain an Energy Management Plan (EMP). The components of an EMP, and how to develop such an EMP, will be examined, including training, capital management plans, and schedules. Register for Webinar 3

O&M for Clean Buildings June 9, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Pacific Learn about what must be included in the O&M plan, as required by the CBPS. Elements such as inventory, performance objectives, and O&M tasks will be explored, as well as a more detailed look into O&M measures for HVAC. Register for Webinar 4

Washington State University Energy Program promotes and supports RCM programs with webinars, publications, technical assistance, monthly newsletters, and more. Visit the WSU Energy Program RCM website.

For more information, contact Karen Janowitz at janowitzk@energy.wsu.edu.

These free webinars are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy State Energy Program through the Washington State Department of Commerce Energy Division.