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The EEB (Energy Efficient Buildings) Hub.

As part of the DOE-wide Energy Innovation Hub initiative, EERE awarded the Energy-Efficient Building Systems Design Hub in August 2010 to a consortium of academic, industry and National Laboratory partners led by The Pennsylvania State University.

The consortium, originally known as the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC) conducts a program of research, development and demonstration (RD&D) at the Pennsylvania State University Clean Energy Campus to accelerate the innovation, commercialization and deployment of energy-efficiency technology for buildings.

In May 2012, the consortium changed its name to the EEB HUB.

Overall Program Goal

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The Hub team will retrofit an abandoned 30,000-square-foot building at the Philadelphia Navy Yard to serve as its headquarters. This is a conceptual rendering of the post-retrofit building.

The program goal is to transform the commercial building retrofit and new construction processes into a systems delivery industry and demonstrate building operational energy savings of 50% by 2013-2015 in a scalable, repeatable and cost effective manner across a broad range of building types in existing building stock, while preserving workplace quality.

A comprehensive research, development and deployment program will be performed that simultaneously addresses the maturation of integrated design and system technologies, exploration of new business models and public policies that accelerate the technology adoption, and the creation of robust workforce development paths. Commercial building stock turns over slowly, and major overhauls are relatively rare. Major retrofit demonstrations are emerging, like the Empire State Building, but they are rare point solutions and achieve less than 40% energy improvement and are not generally scalable, for reasons given below, to less than 100,000 square foot building stock.

DOE’s building energy goal is to reduce the annual energy use of buildings by 80% in the year 2050. New approaches to design/build/operate building system technologies, new business models, public policies, and workforce development paths are required. An interim goal of demonstrating 50% energy efficiency improvement was selected to stretch beyond applying conventional solutions which have been demonstrated in select retrofit examples in the ~30% efficiency improvement range. This 50% energy efficiency goal requires that the technical, policy and workforce solutions sets are scalable to at least 50% of today’s commercial building stock. This goal demands rethinking every technical approach and solution set as well as adopting new business value propositions, public policy positions and workforce development processes.

Consortium partners

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The members of the EEB HUB consortium.

As of September 2011, the GPIC partners are:

Timeline

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Hub Technical Director Jim Freihaut speaks with President Obama and Secretary Chu during a visit to Penn State on February 3, 2011.

The FOA is available hereor here.

  1. DOE released the FOA on February 12, 2010.
  2. DOE and other agencies held a public information session on February 22, 2010.
  3. DOE announced a second public information session in the Federal Register on April 7, 2010.
  4. DOE held a second public information session on April 14, 2010.
  5. DOE amended the FOA on April 26, 2010.
  6. Applications were due on May 6, 2010.
  7. DOE announced the selection on August 24, 2010. The full proposal from the winning consortium (GPIC) is available here.
  8. The Hub website went live in November, 2010.
  9. NETL made the Hub award (DE-EE0004261) on January 21, 2011, which is also the effective date. The Contract Officer is Richard Rogus (NETL). The CX designation form is here.
  10. President Obama and Secretary Chu visited Penn State and toured the labs of Hub Technical Director Jim Freihaut on February 3, 2011.
  11. GPIC management released the Five-Year-Plan and an RFP to the member organizations to determine Year 2 activities and funding on September 6, 2011.
  12. GPIC management will submit the Year Two SOPO to NETL in November, 2011.

RD&D program

To achieve the program goal, GPIC will conduct a comprehensive RD&D program that will focus on several technology areas, including integrated computer design tools; building subsystems such as envelopes, HVAC equipment, on-site energy generation, waste-heat utilization, and energy storage; and building control systems that integrate and optimize overall building energy operations. The program will also focus on efforts in education and workforce development, by working with regional Workforce Investment Boards to train the construction- and retrofit-related workforce in energy technologies and energy-efficient building practices, and the manufacturing workforce for building systems and components. Finally, the program will focus on understanding the impacts of policy, market, and behavioral factors in the spread and adoption of energy-efficient technologies in buildings.

The program will be divided into eight tasks, as follows.

Title Description Sub-tasks Task Lead
Task 1  Management Overall management of the Hub effort.
  • 1.1: Project Management Plan
  • 1.2: Building 661 Retrofit Project at the Navy Yard
  • 1.3: Information and Communications Systems to Support HUB
  • 1.4: HUB Public Information Program
  • 1.5: Task 1 Documentation, Assessment, and Continuous Improvement
 Paul Hallacher (PSU), Jim Freihaut (PSU), Jan Mahar (PSU)
Task 2 Tools for Integrated Design Establishment of design tools, methods and processes which enable interactive, interdisciplinary team design and delivery of energy-efficient buildings for both retrofit and new construction for "typical" commercial buildings.
  • 2.1: Development of an Integrated Building Lifecycle Process (IBLP)
  • 2.2: Models for Integrated Building Design
  • 2.3: High-Performance Computational Tools and Applications
  • 2.4: Cloud-Based Platform Design System
  • 2.5: Task 2 Documentation, Assessment, and Continuous Improvement
 Jane Snowdon (IBM)
Task 3 Integrated Technologies and Systems Providing the technological specifications for the Building 661 retrofit at current state-of-the-art (including envelope, lighting, mechanical, IAQ, energy, controls, and operations); and identification of next-generation technologies for the 2013-2018 timeframe.
  • 3.1: Treating Whole Buildings as Single Integrated Systems
  • 3.2: Developing Mechanical, Electrical and Thermal Components and Subsystems
  • 3.3: Developing New Control Approaches for Integrated Buildings
  • 3.4: Optimizing Building Performance via Monitoring and Diagnostics
  • 3.5: Providing for Task 3 Integration, Assessment, and Continuous Improvement
 Tim Wagner (UTRC)
Task 4 Policy, Markets, and Behavior (PMB) Ensure best knowledge and best practice inform and guide technology deployment at GPIC; provide the basis for policy instrumentation designed to transform the market for building retrofit.
  • 4.1: PMB Assessment of Integrated Design and Retrofit Technology Process
  • 4.2: Navy Yard Test Bed for Behavior and Building Performance
  • 4.3: Repository of Key Policies and Practices
  • 4.4: Moving from Existing to Desired Policies and Best Practices
  • 4.5: Task 4 Documentation, Assessment, and Continuous Improvement
 Mark Alan Hughes (U Penn)
Task 5 Education and Workforce Development Assure that new innovative energy efficiency technologies and systems developed and demonstrated at the Navy Yard are supported by a robust human capital infrastructure for deployment throughout the Greater Philadelphia region and beyond.
  • 5.1: Education and Workforce Development Advisory Board
  • 5.2: Skill Barriers to Improved Building Energy Efficiency
  • 5.3: New Education and Workforce Development Programs
  • 5.4: Recruitment and Placement of Underrepresented Workers in Quality Jobs
  • 5.5: Recruitment of Displaced Workers
  • 5.6: Outreach to K-12 Teachers and Students
  • 5.7: Task 5 Documentation, Assessment, and Continuous Improvement
 Andrew Zwicker (Princeton)
Task 6 Commercialization and Deployment Monitor HUB RDD&D activity; operate GPIC virtual proof-of-concept center; coordinate team-based business mentoring program; operate the Creativity and Commercialization Institute Fund (C2IF).
  • 6.1: Building 661 Retrofit Project and Spherical Integration
  • 6.2: Active Harvesting of HUB Technology, Best-practices, and Policy
  • 6.3: Intellectual Property
  • 6.4: RDD&D Project Monitoring and Assessment
  • 6.5: Creativity and Commercialization Institute Fund (C2IF)
  • 6.6: Commercialization
  • 6.7: Task 6 Documentation, Assessment, and Continuous Improvement
 James Gambino (Ben Franklin Technology Partners)
Task 7 Collaborative Demonstration Projects Demonstrate performance of integrated building systems through collaborations with non-GPIC-member DOE National Laboratories and other external building technology organizations. None Paul Hallacher (PSU), Jim Freihaut (PSU)
Task 8 Reporting Meet DOE reporting requirements. None Paul Hallacher (PSU), Jan Mahar (PSU), Christine Wilson (PSU)

Management and operations

Similar to the other Energy Innovation Hubs, the GPIC consortium will operate under a new model of conducting multidisciplinary, integrated research programs. DOE will encourage risk-taking by the consortium by making the initial grant period five years, renewed thereafter for up to 10 years. For the period of the grant, Principal Investigators from the 22 Hub partners will be co-located at a single research facility in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a former DOD facility closed in the mid-1990s under the Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) process. The consortium will use the Navy Yard, which has over 200 buildings and an independent electric microgrid, as a "virtual municipality" testbed for building energy technology systems and "policy simulation experiments" related to energy pricing structures.

The work of the Hub will be integrated with three other related DOE investments in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, including the Mid-Atlantic Clean Energy Applications Center (focusing on combined heat and power technology), the GridSTAR Smart Grid Training Application Resource Center (focusing on training smart grid installers), and the Northern Mid-Atlantic Solar Regional Training Center (focusing on train-the-trainer programs for solar installers).

The Hub will work with a Project Historian, Professor Roger Geiger of Pennsylvania State University, to record the history and progress of the Hub's work.

DOE Points of Contact

  • Alexis Abramson (EERE/BTP)
  • Rich Karney (EERE/BTP)
  • Colin McCormick (S3)
  • Paul Giles (NETL)
  • Rich Rogus (NETL)

Hub Personnel

Role Name Institution
Executive Director Hank Foley Pennsylvania State University
Director for Technology and Operations, Task Leader (Management) Jim Freihaut Pennsylvania State University
Director for Management and Administration, Task Leader (Management & Reporting) Paul Hallacher Pennsylvania State University
Project Historian Roger Geiger Pennsylvania State University
Task Leader (Reporting) Christine Wilson Pennsylvania State University
Task Leader (Management & Reporting) Jan Mahar Pennsylvania State University
Task Leader (Tools) Jane Snowdon IBM
Task Leader (Controls, Components, Systems) Tim Wagner UTC
Task Leader (Policy, Markets, Behavior) Mark Alan Hughes University of Pennsylvania
Task Leader (Education, Workforce) Andrew Zwicker Princeton University
Task Leader (Deployment, Commercialization) James Gambino Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Advisory Board

The Hub is advised by an external Advisory Board. As of June 3, 2011, the members are:

Name Institution Notes
Joseph Bordogna University of Pennsylvania CHAIR
William Bahnfleth Penn State University Treasurer of ASHRAE, 2011-2012
Brian Castelli Alliance to Save Energy
Tony DiLeonardo Building Commissioning Association
Anna Dyson Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Louis Geschwindner American Institute of Steel Construction
Henry Green National Institute of Building Sciences
William Hankowsky Liberty Property Trust
Trevor Houser Rhodium Group
Yi Jiang Tsinghua University
Robert Kumpf Bayer Material Science
Charlotte Matthews Related Companies
Michael McQuade United Technologies Corporation
Anthony Picarazzi National Energy Management Institute
Dorothy Robyn US Department of Defense EX OFFICIO

Energy Regional Innovation Cluster (E-RIC)

The Hub will also serve as the anchor of the multi-agency Energy Regional Innovation Cluster (E-RIC) initiative. Under this initiative, several other federal agencies will award funding to organizations partnering with the GPIC to bring expertise in manufacturing and supply chain issues; economic development; education; and workforce development. The participating E-RIC agencies and their respective grantees include:

Related facilities and companies at the Navy Yard

There are a number of related facilities and companies at the Philadelphia Navy Yard that are not formal partners with the Hub. These include:

  • The Mark Group, a home retrofit company, opened its first US office at the Navy Yard in October 2010.[1]
    • The Mark Group opened its home energy retrofit training academy at the Navy Yard in April 2011.[2]
    • As of April, 2011, the Mark Group is hiring up to 70 home retrofit technicians at the Navy Yard.[3]
  • Pace Controls, Inc., a building controls company, moved to the Navy Yard in March, 2011.[4]
  • As of May 2009, Conergy is planning a 1.5-MW solar PV installation at a brownfield site at the Navy Yard.[5]
  • The Philadelphia Technology Park, a data center facility.
  • The Naval Surface Warfare Center - Philadelphia, a Navy R&D facility.

GPIC/HUB Web Site

The GPIC/HUB website [1] went live in November 2010. The site provides visibility for the GPIC/HUB, as well as a gateway to allow interested parties to get involved with the project. The primary intended audiences are private companies in the building industry that want to be engaged in the GPIC/HUB, individuals looking for employment and training opportunities, educators seeking educational programming and opportunities for their students, government agencies at all levels, and current GPIC /HUB members and partners, among others.

Conference and Workshop Presentations

Senior GPIC/HUB personnel are participating as speakers at many clean and alternative energy and broader public policy conferences and workshops. These include:

  • Put China In Your Business Future Conference, Woodrow Wilson School for International Scholars, Philadelphia, September 8, 2010
  • Annual Meeting of the Metropolitan Partners, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, September 28, 2010
  • Regional Innovation "Deep Dive" Retreat, Center for American Progress, Pocantico, NY, October 4-5, 2010
  • US Clean Heat & Power Association Conference, Washington, DC, October 5-7, 2010
  • Strategic Planning Meeting for the Sustainable Energy Fund of West Penn Power, Hershey, PA, October 22, 2010
  • Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 25-26, 2010
  • World Green Energy Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, October 28-30, 2010
  • Sustainable Design Conference of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, Great Valley, PA, Nov. 4, 2010
  • USEA-sponsored PSU Energy Day, Washington, D.C, Nov. 19, 2010

Press coverage

References

  1. ↑ Mark Group Opens New US Office, accessed February 1, 2011.
  2. ↑ Mark Group USA Opens North American Energy Efficiency Training Academy, accessed July 15, 2011.
  3. ↑ Navy Yard's Mark Group hiring for 70 energy efficiency jobs, accessed July 15, 2011.
  4. ↑ Pace Controls Completes Move to Philadelphia Navy Yard Clean Energy Campus, accessed July 15, 2011.
  5. ↑ RE-Powering America’s Land: Siting Renewable Energy on Potentially Contaminated Land and Mine Sites, EPA, May 2009 (accessed February 3, 2011).

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