In response to growing concerns by potential buyers that a building may be using more energy than its peers, ASTM recently published its new Building Energy Performance and Improvement Evaluation Standard E3224-19.

This new standard establishes a methodology to determine if a building is under-performing, i.e., consumes more energy than its peers.

For PCA professionals this creates an opportunity and a challenge.

The opportunity: it expands the scope of work. The challenge: how to comply without conducting an expensive energy audit.

The PCA-EPIC solution empowers PCA professionals to quickly determine if a building is under-performing vs. its peers. If the subject building is indeed underperforming, EPIC determines both the specific measures needed to bring energy performance in line with its peers and estimate the costs of these measure… all in real time. The results are summarized in a comprehensive report that can then be appended to the PCA consultants standard report.

What drives building energy efficiency improvements?

Under-performing Buildings

• Higher operating costs
• Lower net income
• Lower valuation

Higher-performing Buildings

• Lower operating costs
• Higher net income
• More competitive in the marketplace

Implementation

Market Responds

Experienced PCA consultants will require access to multiple ever-changing databases including:

• Energy consumption (by building type and climate zone)
• Per cent saving formulae for different energy improvements
• Installed cost (by region?) of energy improvements

• Prospective building owners increasingly demand building energy efficiency assessments
• ASTM publishes its Building Energy Performance and Improvement Evaluation Standard Guide E3224-19
• E3224-19 establishes a methodology to:
  • Determine a building’s energy performance relative to its peers
    if underperforming
  • Identify measures to achieve parity with its peers