This dynamic document provides background information to any potential audience of building re-tuning training. This document provides background information specifically geared toward small- to medium-sized commercial building operations. It introduces basic building energy terminology associated with building energy use to “prime” targeted participants to get the most out of the building re-tuning training. The intent is for participants who are less familiar with the concepts to review this material before taking the building re-tuning training class.
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The primary audience for this instructor manual is the person who will be teaching the re-tuning course. In addition, community college instructors, retro-commissioning training providers and building operator training providers may find value in the material presented in this instructor manual as well. The purpose of this course is to help building operations staff to learn how to operate buildings more efficiently, reduce operating cost and provide energy savings. The knowledge and skills learned through the training will be highly valued by organizations and companies seeking to improve the performance of their buildings. Provides additional information on what to highlight in each of the small building re-tuning slides.
A prescriptive approach to re-tuning small to medium sized commercial buildings including how to understand and collect necessary building information.
This is chapter 2 of 3. The full training can be found at http://buildingretuning.pnnl.gov/small_bldg_training.stm
Re-tuning focuses on a number of commonly occurring operational problems in buildings. These guides, through examples, provide details on how to detect good (normal) and bad (abnormal) operations. The purpose of the zone heating and cooling control guide is to show, through use of examples of good and bad operations, how the heating and cooling at the zone level can be efficiently controlled.
Re-tuning focuses on a number of commonly occurring operational problems in buildings. These guides, through examples, provide details on how to detect good (normal) and bad (abnormal) operations. The purpose of the occupancy scheduling control guide is to show, through use of examples of good and bad operation, how occupancy scheduling should be utilized and efficiently controlled
Re-tuning focuses on a number of commonly occurring operational problems in buildings. These guides, through examples, provide details on how to detect good (normal) and bad (abnormal) operations. The purpose of the central utility plant (CUP) heating control guide is to show, through
examples of good and bad operations, how CUP heating can be efficiently controlled. This guide will focus on hot water boilers and their operations
Re-tuning focuses on a number of commonly occurring operational problems in buildings. These guides, through examples, provide details on how to detect good (normal) and bad (abnormal) operations. The purpose of the air-side economizer control guide is to show, through use of examples of good and bad operation, how air-side economizers should be utilized and efficiently controlled. An air-side economizer is a duct/damper arrangement in an air-handling unit (AHU) along with automatic controls that allow an AHU to use outdoor-air to reduce or eliminate the need for mechanical cooling.
Re-tuning focuses on a number of commonly occurring operational problems in buildings. These guides, through examples, provide details on how to detect good (normal) and bad (abnormal) operations. The purpose of the air-handling unit (AHU) static pressure control guide is to show, through examples of good and bad operations, how the static pressure can be efficiently controlled.
Re-tuning focuses on a number of commonly occurring operational problems in buildings. These guides, through examples, provide details on how to detect good (normal) and bad (abnormal) operations. The purpose of the air-handling unit (AHU) minimum outdoor-air operation control guide is to show, through examples of good and bad operations, how AHU outdoor-air operations can be efficiently controlled.