Fabio Battaglia, Jason Kelly, Dana Savage, Dr. Farah Singer, Prof. Michael M. Ohadi, Chauncey Jenkins (Facility Management, UMD)
Knight Hall is a small journalism building comprising of offices, classrooms and media labs. It has a gross surface of 55,861 square feet and it was built in 2010. Although it’s a recent construction, the building offered opportunities to improve the energy efficiency.
The most important ECMs suggested were: adjust the thermostat temperature and for some of the AHUs, reschedule the summer occupancy, avoid external light during daytime and reduce the lighting level when and where unnecessary.
The implementation of these no cost ECMs would save $12,000 every year, corresponding to 7% of a building which was considered to be at the state of the art.