Separating Fact From Fiction: Results from Building Performance Monitoring at the University of California, Riverside's Health Sciences Research Building
Tim Evans, SRG Partnership, Inc.
The design for the University of California, Riverside's Health Sciences Research Building was presented at the Labs21 2007 Annual Conference. This building incorporated a number of progressive sustainable design strategies including extensive daylighting, night flush/mass cooling, low pressure-drop design, chilled beams, substitution of terminal heat for reheat, and dynamic control of motorized shades that reads the actual exterior sun conditions. An extensive building performance monitoring system was installed, providing empirical feedback on the actual performance of these sustainable design strategies. This presentation will focus on valuable lessons learned from this process. It highlights the features of the monitoring system, the data obtained, and how comparison of this data to predicted performance has provided valuable information to optimize the performance of the systems, as well as a basis for developing future facilities.
Biography:
Tim Evans is an architect and laboratory design principal for SRG Partnership, with offices in Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California. SRG Partnership provides programming, planning, and design services for a wide variety of academic, private, and regulatory clients. Mr. Evans has been directly involved in the programming and design of numerous research facilities over the last 22 years, and specializes in the design of high-performance laboratory environments and project sustainability. Mr. Evans has presented at previous Labs21 Annual Conferences and participates in several I2SL Working Groups.