February 2012
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Make Your Green Strategies Generate Some Green!

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Unless you have one of these trees growing in your mechanical room--you'll need to attend BOMA/NY's Energy Action Day. Because amid all the talk about going green and staying green, it’s time to focus on generating green for the bottom line. We address that need on March 8, 2012 at the morning-long annual Energy Action Day Seminar at Club 101 located at 101 Park Avenue, which will run from 8-11 am.

Because energy currently eats up 40 percent of operating costs, the seminar will focus on cost-containment and revenue-generating strategies that have already been tested and put in place by the panelists.

Jeff Brodsky, President, Related Management, leads off as keynoter, and is followed by these two featured panels:

Panel 1: Make the Most of Local Law 87: Learn How to Save $$$ While Complying

NYC’s Greener, Greater Buildings Plan requires buildings over 50,000 sf to complete energy audits and retro-commissioning of base building systems every ten years. The seminar will help you comply by providing:

• A brief overview of LL 87 requirements/deadlines

• A case study of RXR Realty’s 340 Madison Avenue featuring the first public discussion on the implications of Local Law 87, with Christopher Cayten of CodeGreen Solutions, and Mitchell Grant and John Hatton, 340 Madison building team members, Abe Ramadan, CBRE, Building Manager, 5 Penn Plaza and Ed Doherty, CBRE, Chief Engineer, 5 Penn Plaza. The case study will focus on energy audit and retro-commissioning processes, including:

o energy-saving ideas
o which ideas worked
o how much energy and money was saved

Panel 2: Demand Response Revenue and Energy Efficiency

Capacity payment value has declined in the last five years, and regulations may further impact prices. Moderator Catherine Luthin of Luthin Associates will guide the panel, which at press time, included Anthony Abate of NYSERDA. Topics under discussion include:

• creative, technology-driven solutions to increase the amount of load that can be pledged, while integrating energy efficiency
• the next generation of demand control systems/equipment with high levels of automation and inexpensive implementation, coupled with high demand response

Special thanks to our sponsors: ABM, CodeGreen Solutions, Con Edison Energy Efficiency Programs and Luthin Associates.