TRACK: Specialty Buildings

SESSION INTENT: Master the issues, challenges, impacts, and opportunities of implementing and exceeding federal design guidelines and requirements for energy and water conservation, sustainability, and efficiency in your laboratories.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Learn from and discuss with commercial design professionals, representatives from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, and U.S. Department of Energy experts about the issues, challenges, impacts, and opportunities related to federal legislation on energy, water conservation, and efficiency in specialty facilities.

TRACK: Specialty Buildings

SESSION INTENT: Discover best practices of the seemingly impossible challenges of achieving energy efficiency and energy savings from federal historic buildings.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: This session will cover how previously off-limits historic building projects have successfully paired energy efficiency and historic preservation to meet energy goals.

TRACK: Specialty Buildings

SESSION INTENT: Learn about specific issues, challenges and unique opportunities to achieve federal energy efficiency mandates in these highly secure and highly utilized facilities.

SESSION DESCRIPTION:  Feeling locked into high energy costs and water usage?  Hear how USP Atlanta, FCC Petersburg and the Federal Bureaus of Prisons are utilizing ESPC agreements to install the latest renewable energy, energy efficiency and water efficiency technologies to take their correctional facility to a new level.  Learn how a biomass boilers, lighting retrofits and ozone/water technology can play a key role in comprehensive energy and water retrofits.

TRACK: Specialty Buildings

SESSION INTENT: Learn from case studies and research how a variety of innovative energy efficiency and management measures have been used to improve existing data centers.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Case studies will show how a variety of technologies, systems, and designs can be used to dramatically reduce energy usage in existing data centers.

TRACK: Specialty Buildings

SESSION INTENT: In this two-part session, discover how the Sustainable Return on Investment (SROI) process can emonstrate benefits on federal healthcare and healthcare facilities with multiple project drivers, such as evidence-based design, federal mandates and LEED Certification. Then, learn about the impacts of federal energy and water legislation on indoor air quality and infection control in federal hospitals and healthcare facilities.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: In part one, the Health Facilities and Planning Agency and HDR, Inc. will present the SROI process and how it converts typical non-financial expenditures and benefits such as energy saved, water conserved, and improved safety or efficiency into monetary terms to provide an objective perspective linked to a healthcare project's triple bottom line. In part two, experts on hospital infection control, indoor air quality, and process loads provide the latest techniques, measurements, means, and methods of meeting and exceeding federal energy and water conservation mandates.

TRACK: Specialty Buildings

 SESSION INTENT: Learn what it takes to plan, implement, and maintain an innovative and sustainable central utility plant in support of special purpose or critical operations.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Experts will share the latest sustainability strategy and design concepts needed to develop, construct, operate, and maintain innovative central utility plants that support critical operations and missions.

TRACK: Specialty Buildings

SESSION INTENT: Learn about the ideas and innovations that make reliable energy possible in a remote environment.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Learn from experts in the field how to operate with limited energy availability and achieve greater energy efficiency through the use of energy innovations and conservation methods that have been successfully adapted for remote locations.

TRACK: Specialty Buildings

SESSION INTENT: Hear about the Federal Data Center Consolidation initiative and its impact on energy, utilization, and the “post consolidation” future of federal data center operations.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Learn from experts about data center consolidation efforts already underway and how they will impact agency operations and energy and real estate costs.

TRACK: Specialty Buildings

SESSION INTENT: Review examples of how to assess current industrial operations and develop measures using new energy technologies and practices to realize higher levels of energy efficiency, utility cost management, and sustainability.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Learn from case studies of successful methods, technology applications, measures, and practices that effectively reduce energy use, manage energy costs, and promote sustainability related to industrial operations.