Seminar 14 -- The Importance of O&M to Energy Efficiency, Comfort, IAQ and Energy System Decarbonization

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The earth is warming from emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere with disastrous potential human impacts in this century. Signs are already evident: increasing major storm frequency, melting glaciers and super droughts. Building O&M are often overlooked in this context. Effective O&M is essential to ensure sustainable buildings remain so, and O&M improvements across the large existing buildings sector could cut GHG emissions quickly while improving energy efficiency, comfort and IAQ. The seminar explores ways of improving building O&M and the potential impacts of improved O&M on GHG emissions, energy efficiency and comfort.

1. Best Practices for Building Operations and Maintenance: Where Small Building Performance Meets IAQ and Decarbonization
   Sonya Pouncy, Member, Building Vitals, Detroit, MI
2. Changing O&M Under De-Carbonization Scenarios
   Michael Bobker, Member, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, New York, NY
3. Tuning the BAS: Stabilizing Performance to Improve Energy Efficiency
   Orvil Dillenbeck, P.Eng., Member, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, ON, Canada
4. Commissioning and Training: Setting the Foundation for Success
   Michael Flemming, P.E., Associate Member, Interface Engineering, San Francisco, CA