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Market Transformation Taking Place with Advanced Energy Design Guide
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For Immediate Release |
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Washington, D.C., June 24,
2008 — Nine million tons of carbon dioxide. $600 million in energy
costs.
That’s the potential savings represented by 100,000 copies in
the Advanced Energy Design Guide series now in circulation. More
than 88,000 of the publications have been obtained via free
download since January.
The series includes publications on small retail and small office
buildings, K-12 school buildings, and warehouses and self-storage
units. The books provide guidance on how to achieve 30 percent
energy savings over building code minimum based on
ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999.
Calculations show that if every guide downloaded resulted in a
single building designed to save 30 percent beyond code minimum,
the estimated energy and carbon savings would be 52 trillion btus
and 9 million tons of carbon dioxide. With an average cost of
electricity of 5 cents per kwh and gas at $7 per mmbtu, the
estimated cost of energy savings is over $600 million.
The guides are developed by ASHRAE, the American Institute of
Architects, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
and the U.S. Green Building Council, with support from the U.S.
Department of Energy. The downloads are available at www.ashrae.org/freeaedg.
“ASHRAE is committed to energy optimization and producing
guidance that will help move the building industry toward
market-viable net-zero energy and carbon neutral buildings,”
ASHRAE President Kent Peterson, P.E., said. “The call for
these high performing buildings is transforming our industry, and
the guidance in the Advanced Energy Design Guide series is useable
technology guidance to help owners, architects and engineers in
accomplishing high-performing buildings.”
“This is proof positive that there are substantial economic
benefits to green building strategies,” said AIA President
Marshall E. Purnell, FAIA. “Hopefully this will help convince
skeptics of the value and payback of green building design and that
practitioners will take advantage of this excellent resource so
that we can move closer to reaching our shared goal of carbon
neutral buildings by 2030.”
“IES is pleased to part of the team developing these important
guides, whose success demonstrates that collectively the
collaborating organizations are raising awareness about how to
achieve energy savings and developing a receptive audience for
future guidance on net-zero energy and carbon neutral
buildings,” said Rita M. Harrold, IESNA director of
technology.
“The green building movement offers an unprecedented
opportunity to respond to the most-important challenges of our
time, including global climate change, dependence on
non-sustainable and expensive sources of energy, and threats to
human health,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO &
Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council. “Working with
ASHRAE, AIA and IESNA on the Advanced Energy Design Guide series is
part of a critical collaborative effort to provide the industry
with the tools it needs to make an immediate and measurable
impact.”
Upcoming publications in the series include 30 percent guidance
books for highway lodging, existing buildings and small health care
facilities. For more information on the Advanced Energy Design
Guide series, visit www.ashrae.org/aedg.
About The American Institute of
Architects
For over 150 years, members of the American Institute of Architects
have worked with each other and their communities to create more
valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings and
cityscapes. By using sustainable design practices, materials, and
techniques, AIA architects are uniquely poised to provide the
leadership and guidance needed to provide solutions to address
climate change. AIA architects walk the walk on sustainable design.
Visit www.aia.org/walkthewalk.
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