TRACK DESCRIPTION: *New for 2011* Nine sessions have been specially designed for experienced managers and decision-makers. This advanced level training will provide insights into solving complex energy challenges.
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Monday, Room: 200 | SESSION TITLE: Guidelines for Achieving Net-Zero/High-Performance Sustainable Building PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: Energy 501 SESSION INTENT: Gain in-depth knowledge of net-zero/high-performance sustainable building planning and construction. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Learn how to achieve high-performance sustainable or net-zero buildings with today's technologies and occupant expectations. Understand the three overarching elements to achieving success: energy-efficient design, occupant engagement, and energy generation; and learn why it is imperative that all stakeholders are intimately involved in these projects. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Monday, Room: 200 | SESSION TITLE: Achieving Long-Term Sustainability PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: Energy 501 SESSION INTENT: Discuss sustainability and where it will be in 10 years. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Discover how sustainability affects everything we do and why your organization will be more efficient in 10 years if you begin making sustainable changes now. We will discuss how the concept of sustainability will change over the next 10 years and discover if "do nothing" really is a viable option. Learn about improved sustainable business processes for your organization. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Monday, Room: 200 | SESSION TITLE: The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) 189 PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: Energy 501 SESSION INTENT: Understand the advanced concepts of ASHRAE 189 and how to prepare for the changes it will bring. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Learn about the proposed design standards for high-performance green buildings. This includes new buildings and their systems, new portions and their systems, and new systems and equipment in existing buildings. This session also addresses energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and buildings' impact on the atmosphere, materials, and resources. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Tuesday, Room: 200 | SESSION TITLE: Advanced Contracting for Renewable Projects PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: Energy 501 SESSION INTENT: Discover how to address the most complex issues in on-site renewable project execution and how to prepare for them. SESSION DESCRIPTION: What could possibly go wrong with an on-site renewable energy project? This session will present some of the complexities related to developing a successful renewable energy project. Discussion topics include issues such as land use agreements, termination schedules, ownership assignments, performance guarantees, National Environmental Policy Act reviews and long-term contracting authority. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Tuesday, Room: 200 | SESSION TITLE: Mitigating Energy Security Risks at Your Installation PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: Energy 501 SESSION INTENT: Learn about the latest developments in energy security and how they impact your facilities and installation. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Even without a worldwide shortage of fossil fuel resources, large installations are expected to experience logistical burdens, operational constraints, and vulnerabilities to fuel supply lines. Discover what new, long-term installation plans will entail, such as networked local power delivery and storage control systems centered on the micro-grid, power delivery innovations, and smart facility energy efficiency interfaces with local and utility-provided power. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Tuesday, Room: 200 | SESSION TITLE: Interconnection Control Issues for Connecting Large Scale Utility Systems to the Grid PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: Energy 501 SESSION INTENT: Gain in-depth insight into utility renewable system planning, construction, and operations and maintenance. Topics include typical stakeholder and facility design, performance and interconnectivity challenges, overcoming design and interconnection challenges and solutions, and lessons learned. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Historically, photovoltaic (PV) systems have been dispersed throughout the grid. Disturbances caused by PV systems dropping off-line due to voltage fluctuations on the grid, or suddenly reducing their output due to a passing cloud, were minor relative to total grid capacity. As large, utility-scale PV systems increase, these disturbances threaten grid stability on a wider scale. Learn how future inverters will require functionality that enables low-voltage ride through, voltage support, and communications and control capabilities. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Tuesday, Room: 200 | SESSION TITLE: How Metering Data Impacts Human Behavior PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: Energy 501 SESSION INTENT: Discuss how metering data impacts human behavior and consider initial sets of metering data from our facilities. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Advanced metering offers opportunities to collect vast amounts of data on energy consumption patterns. Discover how that data can be used to improve energy-related behavior and incorporate energy considerations into strategic and operational decision-making that is constantly evolving. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Wednesday, Room: 200 | SESSION TITLE: Moving Toward Continuous Building Commissioning PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: Energy 501 SESSION INTENT: Understand guidelines for continuous building commissioning that can provide facility managers with optimized building performance in accordance with ASHRAE Guideline 1.1-2007. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Learn to optimize building system operations and controls based on building conditions and maintenance personnel. Explore continuous building processes to identify and correct building operation and performance that deviates from the original system design and intent. Improve occupant comfort while reducing the expenditure of unnecessary energy and identifying energy efficiency retrofits as an integrated approach. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Wednesday, Room: 200 | SESSION TITLE: Advanced Alternative Financing PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: Energy 501 SESSION INTENT: Explore the possibilities and discover the complexities of alternative financing projects—an immediate need, due to dwindling federal funds. SESSION DESCRIPTION: With decreasing funding for government agencies, alternative financing opportunities are a viable option to fulfill significant funding shortfalls. Alternative funding traditionally includes energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs), utility energy service contracts (UESCs), and enhanced use lease (EUL) contracting mechanisms. For many years, government agencies have benefited from these contracts. Yet, these contracts are complicated and carry risks for both government agencies and contractors who provide the required results. To be successful, both government and contractors must work together |