Energy Performance Evaluation of an Educational Facility: The Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

Energy Cube and Energy Magnets

“…The story of Oberlin College's Adam Joseph Lewis Center (AJLC) for Environmental Studies as a ZeroEnergy building [15] is particularly encouraging.The AJLC project employed over 150 environmental sensors installed throughout the building and landscape to make interactions between the built and natural environments visible and easy to interpret. A major part of the project is a data monitoring system for real-time energy flows.The premise of the project is that "real-time feedback on building and ecological performance increases awareness, connectedness to place, and motivation to act" [16].We have taken a similar position in our work.…”

Assessment of the Technical Potential for Achieving Net Zero-Energy Buildings in the Commercial Sector

“…al. 2005;Deru et al 2005a;Deru et al 2005b;Pless et al 2005;Torcellini et al 2005a;Torcellini et al 2005b). These buildings are not part of this study, but they show that some of the best buildings today can come close to or even exceed the "Max Tech energy-efficient scenario.…”

An Analysis of Variation in the Energy-Related Environmental Impacts of LEED Certified Buildings

“…Other literature has focused on the relationship between modeled and actual energy use in LEED and related high performance buildings (Pless and Torcellini 2004;Scofield 2004;Diamond et al 2006), the stringency of energy requirements in LEED (Eley 2001), the level of effort required to achieve various LEED points (Eijadi et al 2002), the need for weighting of LEED points with respect to environmental benefits (Eijadi et al 2002), the effectiveness of energy strategies to earn LEED points (Werthan and Navvab 2006), the potential inadvertent environmental consequences of relying on LEED (Bray and Natasha 2006), the relationship between a building's ENERGY STAR Score and its level of electricity savings compared to code (Johnson 2002), and decision support for selecting building energy strategies (Chalifoux 2006;Pulaski et al 2006).…”