Building Automation and Metering

Energy efficiency improvements can be realized simply by more closely monitoring building systems performance and adjusting systems to run appropriate to occupancy levels. UW-Whitewater has made several improvements in monitoring and control capabilities to allow technicians to quickly respond to inefficiency and utilize automation to eliminate the neeed for constant human monitoring. There are also several opportunities under consideration to further this effort.

• - Performance contract to upgrade building system controls in academic buildings.

• Utilize electronic energy metering for all campus buildings.

• Ongoing inspection, testing, recalibrating, and resetting of academic building thermostats to state recommended temperature levels.

• Ongoing cutbacks of HVAC operations in unoccupied academic buildings.

• Installed Johnson Controls HVAC control software (MetaSys) extended architecture.

• Assess and adjust academic building air exchange rates, possibly setting up interdependent system (“smart system”) using CO2 sensors to stagger air handler operation to reduce peak electricity load.

• Reduce academic building air handler operation to a rotating and reduced operating schedule during non-building hours.

• Assess and adjust fume hood air flow rates in science labs.