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Green Design: A Work In ProgressGreen buildings have the potential to offer great energy cost savings in addition to helping the environment.
However, developers often create "green buildings," but we never hear if the building actually runs at its peak efficiency.
Now, one green building is letting it all hang out. Having been in its new green headquarters for one year, The Woods Hole Research Center in Woods Hole, Mass., is addressing those issues by tracking and making available information on the performance of its building.
Because the center's Ordway Campus incorporates so many different efficiency and renewable (clean) energy collection strategies, they will display the energy flows through the building in a series of Web pages designed to provide a full overview of the building's energy performance.
This near-real time display collects and synthesizes data from over 70 different sensors that measure flows of electricity, heat, and fluids (air and water) into and out of the building as well as the site's local environmental conditions.
"Engineering is, by nature, conservative-and if large gains are to be made in the efficient design and specification of mechanical systems to support very efficient building design and operation, the engineering community needs real performance data to support their efforts," said Joe Hackler, a research
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