The Ohio State University Marion Campus Energy Audits
Heapy Engineering has been selected to provide an energy audit and conservation retrofit design for five buildings on the OSU Marion Campus. These audits will assist with compliance of House Bill 251 enacted by the Ohio General Assembly in December of 2006. The goal of the energy audit is to reduce on and off campus energy consumption by 20% by the end of 2014.
Buildings / Facilities to be included in the Energy Audit include:
- Morrill Hall, 73,528 SF, built in 1968
- Technical Education Center, 61,604 SF, built in 1977
- Alber Student Center, 30,781 SF, built in 1986
- Library Classroom Building, 48,970 SF, built in 1996
- Maintenance / Storage / Receiving Building, 10,566 SF, built in 1999
Our Energy Auditing Services will include:
- Determine the building's gross conditioned square footage.
- Review of utility bills. Review the monthly patterns for irregularities.
- Complete an energy performance summary to develop the energy index and the cost index for each fuel, or demand type, and their combined total.
- Compare the Energy Usage and cost with buildings having similar characteristics.
- Perform a brief walk-through survey of each facility
- Meet with owner/operator and occupants to learn of special problems or needs of the facility.
- Perform a rough estimate to determine the approximate breakdown of energy use for significant end-use categories, including weather and non-weather related uses.
- Identify low-cost/no-cost changes to the facility or to operating and maintenance procedures, and determine the savings that will result from these changes.
- Identify potential capital improvements for further study, and provide an initial estimate of potential costs and savings.
- Review mechanical and electrical system design, installed condition, maintenance practices, and operating methods.
- Review existing operating and maintenance problems.
- List all possible modifications to equipment and operations that would save energy and provide a list of preliminary cost and savings estimates.
- Review the list of practical modifications with the owner/operator.
- Estimate the potential savings in energy cost and its energy index.
- Estimate the cost of each practical measure.
- Estimate the combined energy savings from implementing all of the practical measures
- Prepare a financial evaluation of the estimated total potential.