Transcript WAP Multifamily

WAP: Multifamily Weatherization
NASCSP Annual Conference
Sept 20-23, 2011
Seattle, WA
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Greg Reamy &
Jennifer Somers
DOE HQ
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Multifamily Related Program
Notices
• WPN 10-15 Final Rule on HUD/USDA Eligibility Listings
• WPN 11-09 Updated HUD/USDA Eligibility Listings
• WPN 10-15A Accrual of Benefits to Tenants in MF Buildings
• WPN 10-17 Using Non-Federal Resources as a Buy-Down
for SIR
• WPN 11-04 Prioritizing Weatherization Work Based on
Housing Type
• WPN 11-13 DRAFT Documentation Required for HUD
Properties on DOE List
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The WAP T&TA Plan
Quality Work = Sustainability
• The T&TA Plan is building tools and resources to ensure
that the WAP is able to produce high quality work and
demonstrate that quality to stakeholders.
• The Weatherization Assistance Program has 30 years of
building science expertise and energy retrofit work
behind it. It is the largest group of experts in home
energy upgrades in the country.
• By utilizing the expertise of the WAP program, the DOE
is seeking to lay the foundation for a robust private
market for home energy upgrades.
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Framework for Sustainability
Professional Workers/
Quality Work
Training and
Certification
of Workers
Defining Worker
Tasks
Market Expansion
•Multifamily
Energy Audit Tool
Standard Work Specifications
Weatherization Innovation Pilot Program
•Private Market Integration
Better Buildings
Building America
Energy Star
•Healthy Homes
Wx Plus Health
•Regulatory Changes
Grant to Loan
Appendix A
Creating Work
Specifications
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•National Evaluation
Non Energy Benefits Study
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Building Markets on Quality
• Markets are driven by consumer confidence
• WAP’s long history and extensive expertise support the development of
consumer confidence
• Market rate programs can rely on the technical expertise within the WAP
program to set standards for work quality and quality assurance
• WAP has a skilled workforce ready and able to transition into the middleincome market
• Common standards and certifications across markets and programs will
ensure that the workforce is able to deliver a consistent product that
consumers can trust
• WAP has spent 30+ years developing quality standards - a resource that
can be utilized by all energy efficiency programs
• Standard Work Specifications (SWS) are outcome driven, but not
prescriptive (not protocols or best practices)
Standard Work Specifications = setting the bar for quality work
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Expanding The Market
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Guidelines for Home Energy Professionals:
Update SWS for Multifamily Buildings
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Developing the Standard Work
Specifications: Multifamily
• Collaboration between industry, labor and the building
trades, and the DOE, HUD, USDA, and EPA
– Continue collaboration with EPA on Protocols
• National Renewable Energy Lab, Advanced Energy,
Association for Energy Affordability, Weatherization
Assistance Program, Industry
• Will follow a process similar to the Single Family SWS
development
• Multifamily is unique in that individual trade workers
often play a larger role
• Overall Goal: Industry acceptance and market
transformation!
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Overall Goals
• Build on the work and experience of the Guidelines for
Home Energy Professionals: Single Family
• Market Lead:
– Define Multi-Family building types
– Assess existing standard and resources for inclusion and
reference in the SWS
• Fill gaps in existing materials through collaboration of
market players
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Eight Detail Areas
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Baseload and Lighting
Forced Air
Hydronic 1
Hydronic 2
Ventilation
Envelope 1
Envelope 2
Water Heating and Conservation
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Job Task Analyses:
On-going Discussion
• Identified Need
– Multifamily Energy Auditor
– Multifamily Project Manager
– Multifamily Building Operator
• Existing/New Resources in Development: Examples
– BTP/NREL: Commercial Building Energy Auditor
– BTP/NREL: Commercial Operating Engineer/Building Technician
– BPI: Multifamily Building Analyst/Energy Auditor
• Multifamily Energy Audit Standard
• Additional research is needed
• In order for MF to become an ISO 17024 certification will
need to create JTA
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Guidelines for Quality Work: Standard
Work Specifications for Multifamily Buildings
• Outreach for Review of Multifamily SWS
– Ensure all stakeholders are appropriately aware and/or engaged
in development and review of standard work specifications
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Technical review, includes healthy homes and worker safety
Two industry reviews
Federal review
Two public comment periods
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Email blasts
Webinars
Conferences and meetings
“Ambassadors”
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Guidelines for Quality Work: Standard Work
Specifications for Multifamily Buildings
Webinars for Specific Audiences—All at 3 p.m. EST
Thu Aug. 18: For the Weatherization Assistance Program (register:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/992747630)
Tue Aug. 30: For multifamily building operators (register:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/879697470)
Thu Sept. 1: For multifamily developers, members of the multifamily finance community, and
affordable housing organizations (register:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/756258950)
Tue Sept. 13: For home energy industry professionals and organizations (register:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/434637022)
Thu Sept. 29: Information about the multifamily standard work specifications’ technical
review by healthy homes experts (register:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/538110878)
Thu Oct. 6: Information about the multifamily standard work specifications technical review
by worker safety experts (register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/271655622)
Webinars for General Audiences—All at 3 p.m. EST
Thu Sept. 8: Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/352148230)
Tue Sept. 27: Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/535705206
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Multi-Family SWS Timeline
AugustSeptember 2011
Technical
Review:
•Additional
Detail
Development
•Healthy Homes
•Worker Safety
Winter 20112012
OMB and
Agency
Review
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Winter
20122013
Issue Final
Guidelines
Fall 2012
Public
Comment
Period #2
Revision
Revision
October
Industry
Review
Revision
Spring 2012
Public
Comment
Period #1
Revision
July 2011
1st draft
Standard Work
Specifications
(SWS)
Summer 2012
Incorporate
Public
Comments
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WAP Standardized
Training Curriculum
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WAP Standardized Training
Curriculum
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Weatherization Installer/Technician Fundamentals
Weatherization Installer/Technician Intermediate
Weatherization Installer – Mobile Homes
Crew Chief
Energy Auditor – Single Family
Energy Auditor – Multifamily
Technical Monitor/ Inspector
Heating Systems for Energy Auditors – Single Family
Multifamily – HVAC
Train the Trainer
• Weatherization Program Manager (In development)
Available for Download at:
http://www.waptac.org/Training-Tools/WAP-Standardized-Curricula.aspx
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Multifamily Curricula
• Builds on Single Family curricula
• Identifies relevant program guidance
• Geared towards auditors:
– Installer work similar to single family
– Audit procedures and background work
– Identifying and evaluating mechanical systems
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Energy Auditor - Multifamily
• Builds on single family curricula
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Introduction
Pre-audit Prep and Walk-through
Testing and Diagnostics
Evaluation
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Mechanical Systems - Multifamily
• Builds on single family materials
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Hydronic Boiler Controls,
Pumps and Motors,
Steam System Piping,
Steam Boilers Operation and
Maintenance,
– And much more.
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Audit Tools
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Multi-Family Audit Tool:
ORNL and LBL Collaboration
Develop Small Multi-Family and
Large Multi-Family Audit Tool and
Programmatic Elements for the WAP
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Add Multifamily HES Consumer
(Home Owners) & HES Pro
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Weatherization Assistant — today
• NEAT and MHEA only — no multifamily-specific
• Locally run on PCs at agency level
• Aggregation to state level by agency
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Weatherization Assistant — planned
• NEAT, MHEA, H&S, NEBs, new multifamily tool
• All run as Internet web service, secure servers
• Central data base
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The Home Energy Saver
Web-based Energy Audit Tools & Services
Home Energy Saver - Consumer
Home Energy Saver - Pro
Home Energy
Scoring Tool
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Multifamily Energy Audit Tool
Primary Needs Tool will Address
• Multiple zones and heating systems
• Improved methods of handling distribution systems
• Improved methods of handling impact of sensor location and
controls
• Better handling of ventilation systems
• Rules-based savings estimation
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What is an API?
Home Energy Saver uses “APIs” - Application
Programming Interfaces - to power its own websites and to
make its underlying data and calculations available to
collaborators and other software developers on the web.
• The APIs allow developers to create user interfaces for
any type of end-user device (desktop computer, smartphone, etc.).
• Deploying at scale through web services so that thirdparty developers (public/private) can create user
interfaces “powered” by HES.
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Home Energy Saver Integration
• HES also adding MF capabilities
• DOE directed that both HES and new WAP MF
tool use the same energy calculation engine
• Integration of WAP and HES development has
provided synergistic benefits and led to some
extra coordination efforts
• WAP MF energy use calculations will occur in
HES “cloud”
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Update: Multifamily Energy Audit Tool
Version 1 (December, 2011) - Pilots
Version 2 (2012)
• Two-step development planned with
extensive front load of software
development to implement initial
version
• Version 1 - simpler buildings &
systems, few extras
– Low-rise walk ups
– Individual dwelling unit space
conditioning systems
– Both dwelling unit and central plant
domestic hot water systems
• Version 2 - more complex buildings &
systems, additional capabilities
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– High-rise with core services
– Central plant space conditioning systems
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The Multifamily Audit Tool will:
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Provide energy auditors with an improved energy simulation and
weatherization measure selection tool for multifamily buildings
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Expand and enhance the energy auditing capabilities of auditors in
multifamily buildings
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Provide a DOE-sponsored multifamily energy audit instrument to
complement the single-family (NEAT) and mobile home (MHEA) energy
audits already supported by DOE under the Weatherization Assistance
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Help improve retrofit work quality and provide a foundation for quality
assurance
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Assist training providers in developing better training materials
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Increase workforce mobility up career ladders and across career lattices
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Build confidence among consumers, building owners, and the energy
efficiency finance community
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WAP Training and Technical
Assistance
Jennifer Somers
Team Lead Training and Technical Assistance/Senior Policy Advisor
Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program
[email protected]
202.287.1740
Ryan Middleton
Training and Technical Assistance Liaison/Project Officer
Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program
[email protected]
202.287.1863
Josh Olsen
Training and Technical Assistance Liaison/Project Officer
Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program
[email protected]
202.287.1813
Erica Burrin
Training and Technical Assistance Liaison/Project Officer
Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program
[email protected]
202.287.1721
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