Holistic Building Renovation to Achieve 50 Percent Energy Reductions
Keith Rule, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is one of 17 member institutions collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEBH) at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (PNS). The EEBH, a five-year, $125 million initiative, is designed to improve energy efficiency and operability, reduce carbon emissions of new and existing buildings, and stimulate private investment and quality job creation in the Greater Philadelphia region, the larger Mid Atlantic region, and beyond. EEBH will focus on a full spectrum retrofit of existing average-size commercial and multi-family residential buildings. The specific project will design and build a deep-retrofit of a circa 1946 multi-use building spanning 88,000 square feet at the PNS. The project will involve design modeling, data collection, cutting-edge technologies, systems integration, policy development, occupant behavior analysis, market development, workforce development in education and training, and commercialization and deployment of technologies. PPPL recently achieved LEED® for Existing Buildings: Operations and MaintenanceTM Gold certification of its circa 1981 administration building that spans 118,000 square feet. During this presentation, the speaker will detail the many green building technologies and systems that were used to achieve this certification and how PPPL is testing and deploying new technologies in support of the EEBH. These technologies are being developed by Penn State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, PPG, Carlisle Roofing Materials, Princeton University, and other materials suppliers and manufacturers.
Keith Rule has been employed at PPPL for 19 years. Mr. Rule currently implements sustainable technologies for buildings and grounds in the areas of water conservation, energy conservation, improved materials, alternative fuels, and land conservation. He is currently involved with EEBH at PNS as a planner and principal investigator.