Cary Vandenberg, CEO of Agilewaves noted: “The pillars of any building energy efficiency project are a solid vision, technology, and financing. At Johnston Square, we have that combination at work, plus we are starting to see how behavioral change is achievable via monitoring and other green programs. To get to Net-Zero Energy Buildings, we have to truly optimize building performance by both tuning operations and driving behavioral change.”
Vandenberg also highlighted the new rigorous requirements in LEEDv3 to achieve significant reductions in energy use and emissions. “Detailed building performance data is the key – it’s the foundation to identify efficiency projects, set baselines, support on-going commissioning and document efficiency and emissions by end-use. That’s how we get to high-performance buildings – perpetual monitoring and tuning building operations.”
Agilewaves (www.agilewaves.com) is an energy management system firm based in Menlo Park, CA. The firm’s Building Optimization System provides facility managers and building owners with real-time, rigorous metrics needed to increase energy efficiency, reduce energy costs and meet the persistent monitoring requirements for LEED, commissioning and Net-Zero Energy Building projects.