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Tech Report 1 Executive Summay

ASHRAE 62.1 Section 5: Building System and Equipment. It compares what the code requires to what AMIC was designed for in terms of the building enclosure, system, and equipment. Then it analyzes whether or not it met the code requirements. Then it does the same process with ASHRAE 62.1 Section 6: Ventilation Requirements and Standard 90.1: Energy performance. Finally, this report includes an Appendix of the calculations used in order to analyze the code requirements.

ASHRAE 62.1 Section 5 after analyzing the required code to the building design I found that the majority of the building met the requirements. AMIC met all the requirements for controls, mold resistance, building envelope, and moisture protection. I didn’t find any code requirements that AMIC didn’t meet.

ASHRAE 62.1 Section 6 after analyzing it, I determined that the building met the ventilation requirements. I decided to focus my attention on all the buildings spaces such as the classrooms and offices. I chose not to analyze the corridors and lobbies. These spaces were too difficult to determine the occupancy as they are constantly changing and different throughout the day. Therefore, trying to predict the ventilation requirements would be near impossible.
 
ASHRAE 62.1 Section 6 I determined that AMIC exceeded the exhaust requirements. The required exhaust for the manufacturing labs is one hundred percent. The area of the manufacturing laboratories was 2,215 square feet. This would require exhausting 2,215 cfm from the space. However, the construction documents showed that they designed the lab space to exhaust 3,830 cfm. Therefore, they overdesigned the exhaust needs for the manufacturing labs. This prevents air contamination to all other spaces however this is a lot of extra energy being used to exhaust this air.
 
Standard 90.1’s analysis showed that AMIC met the requirements for the buildings energy performance. However, AMIC did not exceed any of the building energy performance standards where it definitely could have. In conclusion, the majority of the Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center met the
 
ASHRAE 62.1 and 90.1’s requirements. It seems that the owner of AMIC chose not do go above and beyond on any additional energy savings as they only met the requirements. They could have been potentially trying to save initial costs by doing this.

Tech Report 2 Executive Summary

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Technical Report 2 discusses the building energy consumption and analyzes the cost associated with the energy consumption per year. The information used for this report was obtained through the construction documents. Architectural set provided by Bostwick Design partnership and the mechanical drawings provided by CJL Engineering. The information was used and input into Trane Trace 700 To be analyzed.

Through Trane Trace 700, AMIC was modeled and analyzed the energy loads throughout the building using block load analysis, and the annual cost analysis associated with energy consumption. Using the specification and construction documents provided I found the information needed to input into Trane Trace 700. Where information was unobtainable I used ASHRAE Standard 62.1.

In order to calculate the loads using Trane Trace 700, I used block load calculations. I blocked the rooms together by occupancy and use type in order to simplify my building. I blocked spaces such as classrooms, offices, labs, bathrooms, future tenants, and mechanical space. By blocking these specific spaces together, it still provided me with 13 spaces to model. This assumption is fairly accurate because I modeled similar spaces together. These spaces are conditioned through 4 rooftop air handling units. Three of these units are entirely electric and one is gas heated.

Through Trane Trace 700 the loads were calculated per month and annually. However, because I don’t have CJL Engineering’s Trane Trace 700 model I was unable to compare my results to the actual building results. If I had this model I am sure that because of the simplification in block modeling I made that my calculations would be lower in comparison. This is also true for the cost analysis because I didn’t have any of the initial costs of the equipment to calculate the economic depreciation. In my Appendix A you can find all of my Trane Trace 700 block load calculations.

In conclusion I found that AMIC consumes on average annually more than four times the amount of electrical energy consumption then gas energy consumption. Also that the total annual utility cost is approximately $44,661. Which comes out to a total annual utility cost of 0.88 $/sf. Also it puts out a total of 774,454 pounds of CO2 per year.
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Tech Report 3 Executive Summary

Technical Report Three is an evaluation the Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center’s mechanical systems evaluation. Additionally, Tech Report Three analyses the cost of the annual utility cost of the mechanical system, initial costs, as well as a LEED accreditation evaluation. Technical report 3 includes and summarizes the important information from Technical Report One and Two.

The mechanical systems up front cost was $1.625 Million. Which is about 9.8% of the total project cost. The mechanical space in the building that takes space away from the occupants is less than 1% of the total buildings square footage of 59,300 SF. This is due to all the large mechanical equipment being placed on the roof.
AMIC was designed for maximum control to each zone to provide the occupants with individual controls for the classrooms and office spaces. The indoor design cooling thermostat setting is 75°F, heating is 70°F, and relative humidity of 50%. These cooling conditions are met through four roof top units that provide air to the VAV boxes in each zone. The air is then reheated to electric hot water unit heaters. The heating conditions are met using fin tubes that run the perimeter of the zones as well as radiant wall panels.

The building is mostly fueled though electric power. Three of the four roof top units are electric. In addition to the electric power, AMIC also utilizes gas for some mechanical equipment such as the final roof top unit as well as the two boilers. AMIC has a total annual utility operating cost of $44,661.

Finally, the owner of AMIC decided not to attempt any LEED certification. This was due to budget problems during construction. However, after more closely examining the LEED credits AMIC had a total of 23 out of 40. 40 credits would have earned AMIC with a LEED certified. These 23 earned were mostly because of the systems that Penn State University already has in place. Though, the building doesn’t sit on Penn States campus and is not owned by Penn State it is still considered part of Penn State.

Overall, the Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center located on Penn State’s Knowledge Park is a well-designed building. The building meets and exceeds all ASHRAE codes, attempts to be as environmental friendly as possible, and is a well-designed HVAC system for the building type.
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