IMPORTANT NOTE: As of January 1, 2014, EPA will no longer offer ENERGY STAR
certification for medical office buildings or residence halls/dormitories/barracks. In 2015, EPA will assess the data with a goal to re-introduce ENERGY STAR certification for medical office buildings and residence halls/dormitories/barracks. For more information about this and EPA’s overall plan for the next generation of ENERGY STAR scores, visit www.energystar.gov/building
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Description
For each ENERGY STAR-enabled building, it is necessary to submit 12 months of utility bills and certain building attributes such as number of occupants and hours of operation in order to receive a rating. The required building attributes vary depending on the building type.
To receive a basic "best guess" ENERGY STAR rating, it is only necessary to submit the building type, floor area, and ZIP code. Other building attributes will be assigned standard EPA default values. However, ENERGY STAR participants are encouraged to enter all available building attributes for their buildings in order to get a more accurate ENERGY STAR rating.
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describe the process for setting up a building to submit data to the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.
provide information on various building use 'spaces' which can be set up under the primary building type.
Prerequisites
The User must have ENERGY STAR access permissions associated with the following User Roles:
Administrator - Full Access Bill Entry & Account Setup Building Administrator Step-by-Step
Select Buildings and Meters from the Main Menu. The Buildings navigation Tree View will be displayed Select the Building that will be submitted to ENERGY STAR.
Click the Edit button beneath the Tree View.
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Check the Enable automatic ENERGY STAR ratings check box.
Select the Primary Space Type that represents the largest floor area associated with the building. A corresponding tab will be created under Space Type Properties for the Primary Space.
At least one of the space types must have square footage corresponding to more than 50 percent of the total building area or an ENERGY STAR rating will not be returned for the building.
If there is a dedicated segment of the building representing a different Space Type, select it from the A drop-down.
dditional Space Type
Click to select the additional Space Type, then click the Add This Space button. A tab under the Space Type Properties will be created for the Additional Space Type. Up to eight additional Space Types can be added for a single building.
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Enter or update values for all relevant building attributes and effective dates by clicking to select the desired field, and entering the information.
Official attribute instructions are available from EPA at: http://www.energystar.gov/ia/busin ess/tools_resources/target_finder/help/Space_Use_Information.htm
If there are meters associated with the building that should not be included in ENERGY STAR calculations, click the Include/Exclude tab.
On the Include/Exclude tab, uncheck the Include/Exclude checkbox for all meters that are not related to the energy usage of the space(s) managed. See Additional Information, below, for a list of legitimate exclusions.
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Click Save. The Building Properties window will close and ENERGY STAR attributes will be updated.
Rules & Restrictions
There are 14 building types eligible for ratings. If the specific building type is not available, select Othe . Although a building classified as will not receive a 1-100 rating, it will still receive valuable
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energy metrics.
The ZIP code and Gross Floor Area fields of the primary type are automatically populated from the General and Floor Area tabs of Building Properties. Either attribute can be modified on the respective tab.
24/7 building access is indicated as 168 hours/week.
Additional Information
When ENERGY STAR setup for a building is complete, EnergyCAP submits the building energy data to the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager via the EPA's Automated Benchmarking Service (ABS) as soon as enough billing and setup data is available. Thereafter, building data will be resubmitted when data has changed or new bills have been entered.
For EnergyCAP, Inc Hosted clients, the submittals are done automatically.
For Self Hosted clients, the submittals must be initiated by the client.
An ENERGY STAR rating is calculated against a U.S. Dept. of Energy statistical model known as CBECS.
The CBECS model takes certain building characteristics into account when deriving the ENERGY STAR rating. For instance, a General Office Building Type would be assumed to contain both the actual office area AND other areas like lobbies, conference rooms, fitness areas, etc. When a building has 10,000 sq/ft of space, all of these space types would be expected to be part of this number. Likewise, a hospital will always have spaces used for storage, administrative offices, medical offices, restaurant, etc. These are assumed to be present and it is not necessary to define these space types.
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However, suppose that an electric meter also powers the lights in the building’s parking lot. The parking lot is an additional space type not typically associated with that building type. The additional draw on energy resources should be accounted for, in order to obtain the most accurate ENERGY STAR rating.
There may be times when it would be advantageous and appropriate to exclude meters from ENERGY STAR submission (see Step 9 in the Step-by-Step, above). Some examples include:
A meter that serves exterior signage should be excluded.
If a parking lot has a separate meter, exclude the meter and do NOT create a parking sub-space.
One of the meters on a building is associated with space assigned to a tenant with a high-energy industrial application.
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A meter represents a commodity associated with a utility point of service. All utility bills are associated with a meter, and every meter must be associated with a utility account and a building or organization. This mandatory structure standardizes reporting and viewing of data. Bills must be associated with a meter even when no physical meter exists.
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describe the process for adding a meter.
NOT describe the process for adding a chargeback meter. Please refer to Creating a Chargeback Meter. Prerequisites
The ability to add meters is incorporated in the following User Roles:
Administration Full Access Bill Entry & Account Setup
Obtain a paper copy or facsimile of the utility bill to be modeled. The bill will provide most of the information necessary for setting up the meter.
Step-by-Step
Select Buildings & Meters from the Main Menu. The Buildings navigation Tree View will be displayed on the left.
Click the Add button below the Tree View. Click the Add Meter menu option.
Review the instructional information provided with the Introduction tab. Then click Continue.