The overall goal of CEE’s Whole Building Performance exploration is to develop the bi-national infrastructure to encourage and enable effective implementation of whole-building commercial energy-efficiency programs.

2009 COMMITTEE OBJECTIVES

• To advance whole building benchmarking and automated benchmarking as a core part of member whole-building program approaches.
  
  
• To support members share whole building program information, strategies, successes and challenges.
  
  
• To work closely with ENERGY STAR® and other government and industry partners to support member whole building performance programs.

ACTIVITIES & EVENTS

Building Performance Roundtable Series

Curious about commercial and institutional whole building performance programs offered by CEE members? Wish you could find someone else to talk with about program plans, strategies and lessons learned? If you are a CEE member this is the place to be. Learn more now!

Benchmarking

CEE supports a member subcommittee to advance whole building benchmarking using the EPA’s Portfolio Manager and other tools.

Commissioning

An outgrowth of the Building Performance Roundtable Series, CEE is supporting ongoing efforts related to commissioning (retro-, re-, continuous) programs.

PAST WORK PRODUCTS & DEVELOPMENTS

CEE's early work focused on existing office commercial buildings and harmonizing with the ENERGY STAR® Buildings program. CEE's Commercial Building Performance Committee produced:

1. A Commercial Whole-Building Energy Performance Goal (consistent with ENERGY STAR® targets) and a set of Attributes and Indicators of Whole-Building Energy Performance

2. A Whole-Building Performance Program Model that ties in relevant national programs such as ENERGY STAR and is compatible with existing commercial program portfolios

3. Worked with the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) to develop content for the BOMA Energy Efficiency Program (BEEP). Click here for additional information about the BEEP.