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Energy Services Technician practical training for a new job title Michael Bobker, M.Sc.,CEM CUNY Building Performance Lab and the EST program at Bronx Community College City University of New York (CUNY) New Ideas in Educating a Workforce for

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M.Bobker, CUNY IREC RE and EE Workforce Development Conference HVCC March 20, 2008

Energy Services Technician practical training for a new job title

Michael Bobker, M.Sc.,CEM

CUNY Building Performance Lab and the EST program at Bronx Community College City University of New York (CUNY) New Ideas in Educating a Workforce for Renewable Energy and Efficiency IREC Conference at Hudson Valley Community College, 3/20/2008

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Overview of Presentation

  • What is the job title “EST for buildings”

and why is it so important now?

  • Knowledge and Skill Areas
  • Practical Exercises in the Curriculum
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EST: A New Job Title

  • Not an HVAC or Environmental Control Tech
  • More energy analysis than equipment troubleshooting

Courtesy: Hampden Engineering Inc.

Great for HVAC, less so for EST

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EST: A New Job Title

  • Energy management
  • Energy use analysis, facility energy performance

monitoring & reporting

  • System optimization, commissioning
  • Energy project id, analysis and development

What the heck is this?

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EST: A New Job Title

  • Market demand for energy efficiency services

– portfolio benchmarking, energy audits, design/build, commissioning services, M&V, maintenance services, “carbon reporting” – LEED for Existing Buildings – End-users, consultants, contractors, utilities

  • Provide a marketable package of skills
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EST: Fulfills an Urgent Workforce Need

  • Energy efficiency in buildings represents a

huge resource for carbon reduction

  • Who will implement critical building

energy efficiency projects? ….and make sure they run as intended over the long-term?

  • Workforce as a supply constraint
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EST - Potential Employers

  • Engineering firms, Consultants, ESCO’s
  • Product companies

– BAS vendors – Solar installers

  • Property Managers
  • Outsource building services firms
  • Utilities
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Who are we educating & training as EST? Two slightly different audiences

  • Present workforce (building operators, maintenance

staff, service technicians) – Upgrading skills, promotions, career ladders – Returning for degree

  • New entrants (engineering, arch tech & enviro sci

students, technical high school grads) – Little or no building experience – In degree program, career options – Importance of internships

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EST KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

  • Data Acquisition

– Historical energy use – Use of plans – Measurement & instrumentation & - tools, readings, tests, sampling – observation of systems, dynamics, opportunities

  • Analysis

– Synthetic skills - integration, interpretation – Calculation - energy loads, modeling, economic analysis

  • Communication

– Written reporting, verbal presentation – Teamwork, Interviewing

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EST KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Academic Subjects

Physics properties of materials, simple thermo Chemistry reactions, equations, combustion Math algebra, statistics, graphical analysis Communications verbal, written Technology spreadsheets, word-processing Business

  • rganizational concepts

Economics market concepts, demand & supply curves

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EST KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Specific Job Performance Areas

  • energy units, conversions
  • energy data, data management, interpretation
  • building characteristics
  • mechanical and electrical system components &

functions

  • system & equipment testing, data acquisition
  • energy efficiency measures & analysis
  • modeling and equipment selection
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PRACTICAL EXERCISES

energy units, conversions

  • Fuel price comparison - spreadsheet
  • Carbon footprint calculation

energy data, data management

  • Compile a data set
  • Use a spreadsheet or db tool - benchmark

building characteristics

  • Work with plan sets
  • Field measurements and drawing
  • Dimensional take-offs

building system components & functions

  • Draw system schematics
  • Read and develop sequences of operation
  • Simulations

data acquisition, testing

  • use data loggers, conduct field tests,

access BAS data energy efficiency measures & analysis

  • Define and calculate an EE project
  • Model and design a system replacement
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PRACTICAL EXERCISES

  • The exercises avoid physical “lab” set-ups
  • Use campus facilities and/or student’s

workplaces

  • Emphasize data skills and energy performance

rather than equipment troubleshooting

  • Understand energy process and outcomes
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PRACTICAL EXERCISES

example of a simple calculation tool

  • Teach fuel / energy values, prices
  • Basic spreadsheet skills

electricity nat gas #2 oil #6 oil unit kwh ccf gallon gallon cost/unit 0.15 $ 2.50 $ 3.20 $ 2.75 $ btu/unit 3,414 102,000 138,700 150,000 $/mmBTU 43.94 $ 24.51 $ 23.07 $ 18.33 $ notes: electric btu value is site energy only fuel values only, does not take into account differences in efficiencies CALCULATING PRICE PER MILLION BTU

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PRACTICAL EXERCISES Schematics & Sequences of Operation

  • logical relationships between equipment elements
  • fundamental fieldwork skill
  • common for mechanical and electrical
  • clarity of thought and presentation
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PRACTICAL EXERCISES

energy data spreadsheet tools

  • organizing data from

individual bills or from utility websites

  • public domain software

– Wisconsin Focus on Energy -- or other - EPA EnergyStar Portfolio Manager

Summary

  • sf - Building Square Footage

1995 Fed- 0 th/sf/yr

Year* therm/sf/yr

Therms Cost Heating Cooling $/therm 2002 NA $0 $0.0000

  • 2003

NA $0 $0.0000

  • 2003 as a % of 2002

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2004 NA $0 $0.0000

  • 2004 as a % of 2002

na na na na na na 2004 as a % of 2003 na na na na na na

*Years listed above are based on the twelve month period ending in Dec

Meter Read Date Therms Cost Heating Cooling $/therm

Start entering your oldest billing data first.

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th/DD/ 10,000sf th/DD/ 10,000sf Degree Days Degree Days

Compile and enter data

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PRACTICAL EXERCISES

energy data spreadsheet tool

  • graphical plots,

trends

  • normalization

by degree-days

  • baseline

creation

Data plots automatically

Gas Use ( therm ) History

1 1 1 1 Jan-02 Feb-02 Mar-02 Apr-02 May-02 Jun-02 Jul-02 Aug-02 Sep-02 Oct-02 Nov-02 Dec-02 Jan-03 Feb-03 Mar-03 Apr-03 May-03 Jun-03 Jul-03 Aug-03 Sep-03 Oct-03 Nov-03 Dec-03 Jan-04 Feb-04 Mar-04 Apr-04 May-04 Jun-04 Jul-04 Aug-04 Sep-04 Oct-04 Nov-04 Dec-04 Month th/ m o 1 1 1 1 1 1 th/ yr - 1 2 m onth rolling Therms 12 month rolling total

Gas Cost ( $ ) History

$0 $0 $0 $1 $1 $1 $1 Jan-02 Feb-02 Mar-02 Apr-02 May-02 Jun-02 Jul-02 Aug-02 Sep-02 Oct-02 Nov-02 Dec-02 Jan-03 Feb-03 Mar-03 Apr-03 May-03 Jun-03 Jul-03 Aug-03 Sep-03 Oct-03 Nov-03 Dec-03 Jan-04 Feb-04 Mar-04 Apr-04 May-04 Jun-04 Jul-04 Aug-04 Sep-04 Oct-04 Nov-04 Dec-04 Month $ / m o $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $1 $1 $1 $1 $1 $1 $ / yr - 1 2 m onth rolling Cost 12 month rolling total

Gas Use and W eather History

1 1 1 1 Jan-02 Feb-02 Mar-02 Apr-02 May-02 Jun-02 Jul-02 Aug-02 Sep-02 Oct-02 Nov-02 Dec-02 Jan-03 Feb-03 Mar-03 Apr-03 May-03 Jun-03 Jul-03 Aug-03 Sep-03 Oct-03 Nov-03 Dec-03 Jan-04 Feb-04 Mar-04 Apr-04 May-04 Jun-04 Jul-04 Aug-04 Sep-04 Oct-04 Nov-04 Dec-04 Month th/ m o 1 1 1 1 Heating Degree Days Therms Degree Days

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PRACTICAL EXERCISES Define & Develop an ECM Project

  • Existing condition description
  • Description of proposed measure(s)
  • Energy Analysis

– Assumptions – Method of Calculation – Measurement plan – Measure interactions

  • Feasibility and Cost Estimate
  • Economic Analysis
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PRACTICAL EXERCISES Model Alternatives in an HVAC Design

  • Develop a schematic design for an HVAC

replacement, following a summary program

  • Use an energy modeling tool to compare alternative

configurations, equipment selections

– E-Quest is a popular free program that provides easy data inputs and graphical outputs for DOE-2 modeling engine

  • Select and size equipment and show on a schematic

plan set

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PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Simulations

  • Lab-on-a-desktop
  • Equipment operation but

not energy use

courtesy: SimuTech Systems Inc.

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PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Advanced Simulators

  • Energy model provides
  • utputs to real digital

controls or on-screen

  • graphics. Response

feeds back into model.

  • Potential to show

energy use outcomes

  • f control and
  • perating decisions

courtesy: LBNL courtesy: NIST

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Fitting Practice to Courses

  • Plans and building characteristics
  • Schematics, mechanical & electrical
  • Simulations

Building Systems-1

  • System design and modeling
  • Write control sequences of operation

Building Systems-2

  • Energy units & conversions, fuel prices
  • Energy data management, benchmarking
  • ECM project analysis

Energy Management-1

  • Project economic/financial analysis (LCC)

Energy Economics

  • ECM project analysis
  • Report Preparation and Presentation

Energy Management-2 (capstone)

  • Carbon footprint calculation

Intro to EST and again in EM-2 (capstone)

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Conclusion

  • Building EST knowledge / skill

requirements can be matched to a set of practical training exercises

  • Practical exercises can be delivered without

large investment (of time and $$) in physical lab facilities

  • Students will obtain a directly marketable

package of skills

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Thank you. Questions?

Michael Bobker Building Performance Lab City University of New York michael_bobker@baruch.cuny.edu 646-660-6977