Workshop Overview
In many advanced economies today, companies are capitalizing on Energy Audit as a tool for inspection, survey and analysis of energy flows in a building, process or system with the goal to seek opportunities to reduce the amount of energy input into the system without negatively affecting the outputs. Many businesses are relying on Energy Auditing to help sustain their buildings and save energy. The savings through Energy Auditing has brought direct profits to these businesses. Apart from helping companies to run cost effective buildings, Energy Auditing has been proven to be effective in saving the environment and improving human comfort, health and safety.
Since, most of existing buildings are not energy efficient, there are several opportunities for building operators to upgrade these buildings with more efficient system designs and newer equipment. This workshop will describe easy methods of screening buildings for energy efficiency using utility data, and how to address the building owner’s concerns of efficiency and comfort. Delegates will learn systematic yet flexible approaches for auditing existing buildings in order to improve energy efficiency and reduce operating costs. Focus areas for energy auditing include building envelope, electrical systems, and HVAC systems. This workshop will also expose delegates to sound economic analysis to assess the cost effectiveness of energy efficiency measures as well as state-of-the-art calculations methods and simulation tools for energy analysis of existing buildings.
Workshop facilitator profile
The course facilitator is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at a prestige engineering university in the United States. He is also the director of the Architectural Engineering Program at the university. He has conducted several research projects in a wide range of applications related to building energy systems and renewable technologies. He is considered one of the world’s best experts in energy efficiency of building systems. He has published over 10 books and handbook chapters as well as over 180 technical publications in referred journals and conference proceedings. He has received several awards from professional organizations including American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and International Solar Energy Society (ISES) for his service to promote and improve the engineering profession. He has conducted projects in several countries to promote energy efficiency and renewable technologies. In particular, he has conducted over 1000 energy audit of various residential, commercial, and industrial facilities throughout the world.
Partial Client List:
- EDF: Electricite de France (France)
- Xcel Energy Company (US)
- Honeywell (US)
- Johnson Controls (US)
- ICAST: International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technologies (US)
- Summit Blue (US)
- NREL: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (US)
- ORNL: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- KISR: Kuwaiti Institute for Scientific Research (Kuwait)
- EMS: Energy Management Services (Jordan)
- Housing Research Council (Egypt)
- ANME: Agence Nationale de Maitrise d’Energie (Tunisia)
- Steven Winter Associates (US)
- Architectural Engineering Corporation (US)
- UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme (Sri Lanka)
- USAID: US Agency for International Development(US)
Testimonials
“The course provides the best proven tools to perform energy audit of energy systems in any type of facility”, Jerome Adnot, Director, Ecole des Mines de Paris (France) 2/10/2008.
“The energy efficiency course is the best I attended in over the last 15 years. I will be sending 5 of my engineers to attend future training courses by this trainer”, Ravi Malhotra, International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technologies (US) 6/4/2007
“The techniques that were outlined by the course facilitator are systematic and easy to implement and should be taught to all energy auditors”, Mounir Bahri, Director, Agence Nationale de Maitrise d’Energie (Tunisia) 5/15/2005.
Key benefits for attending this event
- ANALYZING utility bills to estimate retrofit opportunities
- GATHERING preliminary data on the building’s operations for analysis precision
- AUDITING the facility to gather equipment design data for electrical and HVAC systems
- CONDUCTING an on-site inspection and determine actual equipment performance to prolong asset life cycle
- MASTERING strategies to determine specific retrofit opportunities for HVAC as well electrical systems
- ANALYZING the cost-effectiveness of each energy efficiency measures to reduce operation costs
- FAMILIARIZING with the latest methods for measuring and verifying energy savings to maximize profit
- ACQUIRING winning skills to prepare and present energy report
Who Should Attend
This Master Class is specially designed for practitioners who have ‘hands on’ role in maintaining and constructing Energy Management Plan. This includes:
CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, Managing Directors, Vice Presidents, Heads, Senior Managers, Head of Departments, Chief Engineers, Building Systems Engineers, Architects, HVAC Electrical Professionals and Facilities Managers of:
Commercial | Facility | Operations | Asset | Environmental, Health and Safety | Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning | Maintenance | Industrial | Energy | Technical | Energy Specialist | Electrical and Mechanical | Plants and Buildings
From the following industries:
Real Estate | Oil and Gas | Telecommunication | Maintenance | Education | Government | Banking & Finance | Construction | Engineering | Tourism
