Synapse: This Week's News for LA’s Best Buildings
City of Los Angeles Delivers Update on EBEWE Ordinance in light of COVID-19
Existing Buildings Energy and Water Efficiency Ordinance (EBEWE) compliance deadlines have been suspended until further notice for 2019 benchmarking and and January thru July 2021 audits and retro-commissioning. LADBS has confirmed they will provide six months notice ahead of new deadlines.
Learn About Building Energy Asset Score & Audit Template
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Energy Asset Score (Asset Score) is a national standardized tool for assessing the physical and structural energy efficiency of commercial and multifamily residential buildings. The following two webinar trainings will provide an overview of Asset Score from concept to implementation and the Audit Template, a web-based tool for entering building energy audit data, performing data validation, exporting and sharing audit data, and submitting data to cities that have local energy audit ordinances. Read more about the upcoming webinars and register below!
Webinar: Introduction to Building Energy Asset Score
Step by step, you will learn how to create an energy model of your building and generate the Asset Score report in less than 30 minutes. No modeling experience required. You’ll also be able to navigate through the DOE’s online resources and learn how to understand your Asset Score report.
When: Tuesday, April 28th 10am PDT
Webinar: Introduction to the Audit Template
In this training, we will demonstrate how Audit Template can support a standard ASHRAE Level 2 energy audit. Step by step, we will show you how to create an account, choose the corresponding template, share your building data, and output your data in various formats. You will also learn how Audit Template can help maximize your audit data utilization and value through standard formatting, automated error checking, and integration with other DOE tools.
When: Thursday, April 30th 10am PDT
Register Today: LABBC’s 6th Annual Innovation Awards
Next Wednesday 4/29 at 12pm PDT, tune into our annual Innovation Awards program to find out the winners and hear from LA Chief Sustainability Officer Lauren Faber O'Connor on the central importance of sustainability in the City’s COVID-19 response.
Every year, we are privileged to collaborate with an exceptional group of organizations who dedicate their time to judge the submissions; it is their individual perspectives and backgrounds that make the awards meaningful and unique. See our list of collaborating organizations below, and be sure to register to attend the virtual event!
Watch: Energy Efficiency Can Get Us Halfway to Climate Goals, an ACEEE Webinar
On Earth Day, ACEEE presented a webinar exploring how Energy Efficiency as a tool can help revive the COVID-19 wracked economy and at the same time, get us halfway to U.S. climate goals by halving energy use and emissions. ACEEE’s new Call to Action offers a roadmap.
Listen: Greenbiz 350 Podcast for a Week in Review
Tune into this week’s episode that covers corporate sustainability amid the COVID-19 crisis, biodiversity and pandemics, and the 'fragility' of auto-centric cities.
