Tools and Technical Advice
Are you ready to reduce your building's energy bills? If you are, you need a good set of tools to accomplish the work.
Some tools are familiar, like wrenches and temperature probes. Others are less physical and more about "best practices" for conducting the work. For example, you may need a good tool for analyzing your electric or gas utility data or a good tool for tracking down the root cause of a performance problem.
These links will take you to tools that will help you implement best practices and achieve more efficient, lower cost, building operation.
Performance Indicators Use performance indicators to identify buildings and systems where you can substantially reduce operating costs and energy use by fixing energy-performance problems.
Common Opportunities: The Top Four Follow this guided tour of the top four expensive energy-performance problems.
Symptom-Diagnosis Tool Have you noticed symptoms of poor performance, for example, a boiler that runs all the time? This tool will help you find the problem?
Best O&M Practice for Major Equipment Here you will find advice on best practices for operating and maintaining major energy systems and equipment.
Examples and Templates Here you will find checklists and example reports that will guide your efforts to scope out performance problems and tune up your building.
