University of British Columbia

Over the past 10 years, UBC has been committed to reducing their energy footprint and operating costs. Starting in 2010, UBC enrolled their most energy intensive facilities in BC Hydro’s Continuous Optimization for Commercial Buildings program. These buildings included their chemistry, biology, and engineering labs and the prestigious Life Sciences Centre, a 500,000 square foot LEED Gold facility housing some of the most cutting edge medical research facilities in North America. SES was hired as the continuous optimization service provider in 22 buildings to date, working to identify energy saving measures that will reduce the total consumption of these buildings by at least 10%. This work has involved a thorough DDC analysis in which opportunities including, but not limited to, free cooling, demand controlled ventilation, advanced lighting control and fume hood optimization have been identified.

SES is also stepping back to look at the bigger picture and determine how these facilities can be integrated to exchange waste heat with one another and reduce their energy consumption even further. SES is proud to be working with UBC to achieve their ambitious long term goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

Simon Fraser University

Continuous Optimization study on SFU’s Applied Sciences (ASB) and South Science Buildings (SSB)representing 26,064 m² of total floor space with dry and wet labs.  This work was completed in Winter 2008. Recommended energy conservation measures included:

• Repair and optimization of existing heat reclaim system
• Building-scale ventilation optimization
• Weather prediction for heating system control
• Demand controlled ventilation
• VSD installation and optimization
• Refrigeration system optimization
• DHW system downsizing
• Load shedding

To date these buildings have demonstrated annual dollar savings of 19 and 6 per cent respectively; with building performance indexes of 300 equivalent kilowatt hours per square meter (ekWh/m²) at ASB, down from 417 and 577 at SSB, down from 769. Since these first studies SES has gone on to do work in an additional 11 buildings at SFU.

Learn more about our work at SFU.

University of Victoria

SES is working with the University of Victoria as their continuous optimization service provider to improve the energy efficiency of six of their buildings.  These buildings include a diverse range of uses including offices, classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, cafeterias and common use spaces.  This projects aims to reduce energy consumption by a least 10% based on low and no cost upgrades, with a strong focus on optimizing their building automation system.