Ongoing commissioning ensures energy efficiency

摘要

In 2010, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) Southeast Network (known as VISN 7) energy management office embarked on a program to comply with the retro-commissioning requirements of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) law. The 2007 EISA law and the executive orders issued pursuant to this law mandated that all federal agencies reduce energy by 30% under the 2003 energy baseline usage (Executive Order 13514 and Executive Order 13423). Leveraging information from a 2009 Retro-commissioning Training Seminar conducted by the National Environmental Balancing Bureau for the VA Energy Managers group in Little Rock, Ark., VISN 7 constructed a retro-commissioning program to evaluate and improve the 8.6 million sq ft of hospital and medical support facilities within the network consisting of 10 hospital campuses.