December, 2003
Pacific Gas & Electric Company awards a new contract to Enovity, Inc. to provide facility energy audits for commercial, industrial, schools and agricultural sites. This contract allows Enovity to expand its auditing services throughout the PG&E service territory, and build on its recent successes on behalf of PG&E at Butte Community College and for the ChemTrace corporation.
November, 2003
Enovity completes the commissioning for the Wild Goose Restaurant in Tahoe City, CA. The commissioning effort, on behalf of the developer East West Partners, was undertaken in support of the U.S. Green Building Councils (USGBC) Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The project is the first in USGBCs Interiors LEED Pilot program. Commissioning focused on HVAC, domestic hot water and lighting systems.
Enovity begins a facility evaluation of the three large PG&E-owned and operated facilities in downtown San Francisco. The three sites total more than 1.4 million square feet over 56 floors of office and support spaces. The evaluation is intended to identify and troubleshoot chronic problems; identify and evaluate energy and operational improvements, their capital costs and constructability issues; will identify on-going maintenance issues; will determine if the HVAC equipment is properly sized; and will create a monitoring plan for project follow-up.
October, 2003
Enovity is hired to complete a facility audit of ChemTrace, a state-of-the-art commercial laboratory facility in Fremont, CA. This work is sponsored by PG&E's 2003 Commercial/Industrial/Schools Audit Program. The purpose of the audit is to identify potential energy and operations savings and to evaluate their energy economics using on-site monitoring, computer modeling and other analysis techniques.
September, 2003
Enovity is hired by the Community Corporation of Santa Monica to evaluate alternative HVAC and domestic hot water systems and to perform energy modeling and life cycle cost analysis for the Broadway 1424 project. The new 41-unit affordable housing development is designed by Pugh, Scarpa, Kodama Architects, an architectural firm currently featured in the September 2003 issue of Architectural Record.
August, 2003
Enovity's role at the Phillip Burton Federal Building is further expanded to include full building operations and facility maintenance of all HVAC, electrical and plumbing systems on a 24/7 basis. Enovity's O&M staff in the in 1.4 million square feet downtown San Francisco building now requires 14 engineers and building specialists in two shifts.
Enovity's role in the development of the RFP Bridging Documents for the County of Alamedas new 400,000 square foot San Leandro Juvenile Justice Complex is expanded to include development of Commissioning and Energy Performance Specifications. Enovity’s interoperable building automation system (BAS) guideline specification for the County is also being adopted for this new project.
July, 2003
Enovity undertakes energy auditing of the Butte Community College Campus in Oroville, CA and a 475,000 square foot office building in downtown San Francisco. The purpose of this work, sponsored by PG&E's 2003 Commercial/Industrial/ Schools Audit Program, is to identify potential energy and operations savings at these sites and to evaluate their energy economics using on-site monitoring, computer modeling and other analysis techniques.
June, 2003
Enovity continues retro-commissioning of building automation systems (BAS) at five Region 9 Federal facilities for the U.S. General Services Administration. This effort involves re-tuning the building controls, verifying correct sequences of operation of equipment, re-programming new energy-savings control strategies, and monitoring and trending of facility energy use.
May, 2003
Enovity is selected as the Commissioning Agent for the Oakland International Airport Terminal Expansion Project. The $252 M project, the first phase of the Port of Oakland’s $1.4B expansion, includes a 108,000 square foot extension to Terminal 2, renovation of the existing terminal, and new central plant. Enovity’s commissioning efforts, scheduled to be completed in the Spring of 2006, are in support of a Port of Oakland initiative to certify the project under the U.S. Green Building Councils LEED program.
April, 2003
Enovity's facility evaluations of PG&E-owned and operated facilities are expanded to fourteen Northern California sites, including Salinas, Merced, Auburn, Madera, Fresno, Colma, Redding and Red Bluff. These audits are intended to determine if the HVAC equipment is properly sized, to assess the condition of HVAC equipment and troubleshoot chronic problems, identify on-going maintenance issues, create a monitoring plan for project follow-up, and to recommend projects based on energy and operations savings, capital costs and constructability issues.
February, 2003
Enovity is hired by Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) to provide energy and sustainable design assistance for the new proposed building additions to the Alma Heights Christian Academy Campus in Pacifica under the Savings By Design Energy Performance Incentive Program. Energy and sustainable strategies being considered are high performance windows, daylighting, efficient lighting and controls, natural ventilation, radiant floor heating and an efficient domestic hot water system.
January, 2003
Enovity is hired by the Waste Management Authority of Alameda County to study the feasibility of installing distributed generation at the County Administration Building and Rene C. Davidson Alameda County Courthouse. Technologies being considered are gas reciprocating engines, gas turbines, micro-turbines and fuel cells. The evaluation will examine heat recovery options, space considerations, parallel electrical connections to the utility grid, potential restrictions imposed by the Air Quality Management District (AQMD), energy cost savings and life cycle cost (LCC) analysis for each feasible option.