Increasing Building Energy Efficiencies: Policies and Practice

While LEED and Sustainable Design dominated the industry landscape in the 2000’s, the last several years have witnessed a pivot to specific improvements in resources, specifically in the areas of water and energy use and efficiency. That bar has been raised through increasingly stringent standards in ASHRAE 90.1-2010 and 189.1-2011, as well as Federal mandates increasing in stringency from EPAct05 through EISA 07, Executive Order 13423, EO 13423 & EO 13514, and most recently 10 CFR 433: Energy Efficiency Design Standards for new Federal Commercial Buildings.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
  • Discuss the requirements of Federal building mandates and codes.
  • List the requirements of ASHRAE 90.1 and 189.1 standards, upon which most State & Local codes are based and written.
  • Describe and appreciate the impact locally, nationally, and globally of these efforts and the trends towards increasing energy efficiency, and competing interests globally between efficiency and a cleaner environment, and cheaper fuel and resulting pollution and associated deleterious effects thereof.
  • Practically implement and adopt these requirements in building systems, and design and construction strategies.

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Course Level Fundamental
Languages English
Compatibility Audio, WebCast, MobileReady

Greg Scheurich

Greg has earned degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He also holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Texas in Dallas. He has also completed additional graduate program work towards an MS in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. Greg has extensive MEP experience, having been involved in the design and construction of critical facilities for 15 years for MCI, Verizon, Sprint, and EDS. He has been with the Corps of Engineers for over 5 years, currently working as the Deputy Chief of the Engineering Branch, Ft. Worth District, and previously as the Ft. Worth District Sustainable Design Program Manager. Greg is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Texas, a LEED accredited Professional, and a Certified Energy Manager. He has delivered a number of industry papers and presentations on topics such as Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, and Engineering Economics at various conferences. He has guest lectured at SMU and the University of Texas at Arlington, and was a board member for the United States Green Building Council Program Working Group for Greenbuild.

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