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Planned Research Activities
Current Research Projects
Completed Research Projects
Non-prioritized Research Ideas
Other Research Documents
Planned Research Activities
The most recent version of the Research
Plan prepared for the Research Subcommittee Meeting
in Salt Lake City in June 2008. Below is a summary of
projects that are currently prioritized by the Research
Subcommittee. Priority order not finalized...
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Title
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Author
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Documents
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Most recent status
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RTAR 1502: User Interface Design for Advanced
System Operation |
TC 1.4
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Jan 09: In the subcommittee meeting, WS 1502
was set as priority #1. RAC conditionally approved
this work statement, so it is cycling off our
priority list. It is expected to go out for bid
shortly.
June 08 report: Project is to be submitted after
Salt Lake City for approval in Chicago.
[We were previously referring to this RTAR under
the number 1528.]
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1
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Improved Tools for Control Loop Performance Measurement
and Evaluation |
Bill Pienta
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Jan 09 report: Bill distributed new version.
He has responded to the issues listed below. Committee
continues to support this effort. Put it as priority
#2, right after 1502. Might be valuable to have
support from another controls vendor, to stress
objectivity and non-proprietary nature of the
expected results - maybe approach John Seem. Should
be submitted with minor changes. The committee
voted to ask Bill to make a few minor changes
and then submit it to ASHRAE, under the following
schedule: deadline for any last minute comments
to Bill was January 30th; Bill to send revised
version to Dave soon after (received Feb 2nd);
Dave to send to those present for final approval,
and then submit to ASHRAE for 9 February. The
main TC supported this decision. The resulting
RTAR (link at left) was submitted 9 February,
2009.
June 08 report: This RTAR has been previously
rejected by RAC. The committee gave Bill the following
suggestions for improving the RTAR:
- The title was changed
- Current tools are proprietary, this tool should
be available to all.
- Research all patents before hand
- Create an objective criteria for use on EMCS
Systems.
- Relate the RTAR more toward commissioning
and ongoing commissioning.
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RTAR 2005-57: Utilization of Random Sampling Technology
in Performing Building Commissioning |
Kristin Heinemeier
Jay Enck
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Jan 09 report: Jay has the file. Has e-mailed
Kristin to request the RAC comments, which Dave
did not bring with him.
June 08 report: Jay is willing to carry this
RTAR forward with some help from Kristin.
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WS 1241 - Impact of Commissioning HVAC Systems
on Life Cycle Cost |
Kristin Heinemeier
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Jan 09: Natascha will keep working on this.
June 08 report: Natascha Castro has agreed to
investigate what other research may be ongoing
in this area and report back to the subcommittee
and to Kristin.
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Human Factors in Operations-phase Commissioning |
Michael Bobker
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June 08: Define and consider the human factors
impacts on the acceptance and implementation of
findings by building operators from emerging technology
represented by tools and platforms for on-going
commissioning, FDD, and remote monitoring. Human
factors engineering can be applied for improved
performance. This research can be seen as an add-on
phase to the current generation of research projects
and pilots that are developing and testing such
tools and platforms. Early findings suggest that
there are barriers to resolve on the operations
staff side in making full use of the emergent technology.
This work would be coordinated with TRG-7's work
under the Strategic Plan Objectives. |
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User Manual for SPC 0 |
Gerry Kettler
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Jan 09: Create a user manual for SPC 0. |
Current Research Projects
The Research Subcommittee is represented
on the monitoring subcommittee for 1274-RP, which was
co-sponsored by this TC.
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Title
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Sponsoring TC
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Contractor
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Most recent status
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Field Performance Assessment of Packaged Equipment
to Quantify the Benefits of Proper Service and Assessing
the Long Term Need for Monitoring, FDD, and Continuous
Commissioning Technology |
7.5, Smart Building Systems
Co-sponsored by TC 7.9
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ADM Associates, Inc.
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Sponsored by 7.5 (formerly 4.11; Prioritized
RTAR.
Jan 08: This project is wrapping up. The contractor
has provided a draft
final report and also made a final
presentation to the PMS.
Jan 09: Todd Rossi is the chair of the PMS. The
PMS completely dropped the ball on pushing it
to completion. Final report is done and in review.
PMS has not provided comments to the contractor
yet.
June 08: We received the final report from
the contractor and reviewed it at the PMS Meeting
yesterday. The committee is to review it and make
any changes so that the final documents can be
submitted in July. We will post everything from
the contractor on the TC website.
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Completed Research Projects
The Research Subcommittee co-sponsored
project 1032-RP, which is now complete. The Subcommittee
also closely followed 1137-RP, which was sponsored by
TC 1.4.
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Title
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Sponsoring TC
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Contractor
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Most recent status
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| 1137-RP: Field Performance Assessment of VAV Control
systems Before and After Commissioning |
1.4, Control Theory and Application
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Patrick Fleming/ Stantech Consulting
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Project is complete. Larry Fisher presented final
report at full TC meeting. (June 2004) |
| 1032-RP: Identification
and Preservation of Building Design Information
for Use in Commissioning and Operations |
1.5, Computer Applications
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PECI
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Reps on PMS: JR Anderson and Eli Howard. Project
complete, final report has been delivered, reviewed
at last meeting. Symposium will be held in Jan 2003.
(June 2002) |
Non-prioritized Research Ideas
The Research Subcommittee has identified a large
number of research ideas over the past several years. Many
of these are described on one-page write-ups or RTARs, and
several were developed as work statements. The research ideas
that have been written up are summarized in the table below.
Other research ideas that have never been written up can be
found in the old Research Reports, on the Meetings page.
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Title
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Author
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Documents
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Most recent status
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| Field-Based Evaluation of Methods for Commissioning
DDC Systems |
Larry Fisher |
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Larry Fisher has agreed to write the RTAR and
seek TC 1.4 Control Theory and Application as a
co-sponsor. (June 2004)
Jan 06 report: Ken will check with Larry and
get info to Dave. Larry did not respond, because
of international travel.
Jan 07: Ken will ask Larry one more time about this.
Possibly the best thing to do would be to take this
away from Larry and appoint another champion. That
person is Ken Gillespie. |
| RTAR 2005-56: The Impact of Commissioning on Comfort |
Dave Shipley
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June 08 report: The committee as well as the author
agree that this RTAR should be dropped. |
| M&V for Cx |
Kristin Heinemeier
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California Commissioning Collaborative is starting
a project on this topic, so the Subcommittee decided
to drop the topic. (Jan. 2007) |
| Methods of Improving Persistence of Commissioning
Savings in Control Systems |
Ken Peet, David Underwood
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Seminar 26 at the January 2007 meeting
addressed this topic. This seminar was proposed
to find out what is already known and to identify
any gaps. Any new topics arising from that seminar
can be proposed as a new research topic. The Subcommittee
decided to drop this topic, however. (Jan. 2007) |
| One Time vs Short-Term vs Seasonal Testing of
Air-Handling Units |
Mingsheng Liu
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This was put on hold until WS-1092, but the original
author has been too busy to take further action
since then. The Subcommittee decided to drop the
topic. (Jan. 2007) |
| WS 1312 - Tools for Evaluating Fault Detection
and Diagnostic Methods for Air-Handling Units |
John House
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This draft work statement was presented to the
Subcommittee at Anaheim. Members had some questions
about it, which were not fully resolved during the
discussion. The Subcommittee expressed interest
in the work statement, and planned to consider it
again at the meeting in Nashville. (Jan. 2004) |
| WS 1115 - Identification of Ideal Monitoring
Data Points for Comnmissioning Support During HVAC
Design |
Dave Shipley
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Submitted, accepted, and contractor selected
before Tech Council turned it back. We believe some
parts may be done by others, so we will reassess
need for project, and rescope/redraft WS if necessary.
Dave will follow up with Ken Gillespie (PG&E), PECI,
and TC1.7 (GPC 4) and make recommendation at next
meeting whether to resubmit or drop. (January
2002 - Decision was made in June 2002 to drop this
work statement and monitor parallel work by CEC
PIER program.) |
| Quantifying Building Energy Performance Persistence
of Savings after Retro-Commissioning |
Needs champion
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RTAR was rejected with comments. Author revised
RTAR. However, much of this work has been done….need
to revise to focus on any gaps. (June 2002) |
| Development and Implementation of Commissioning
Strategies for Optimal Control Evaluation |
Dave Shipley
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Deleted after June 2002 meeting, due to lack of
action/interest from TC 4.6. (June 2002) |
| The Building Automation System's Role in Commissioning
of HVAC Systems |
Jim Gartner
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Deleted after June 2002 meeting due to lack of
action/interest from TC 1.4 or from IEA Annex 40
participants. (June 2002) |
| Diagnostic tools for maintenance, operating and
commissioning cost optimization |
Tom Tamblyn
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No further action was taken on this research
idea, due to lack of action/interest from TC 1.8.
(Feb 2000) |
Other Research Documents
Research Plans: Previous versions of
our Research Plans may be found in the meetings
area of this site.
Research Meeting Notes: Notes on previous
Research Subcommittee meetings may be found in the meetings
area of this site.
Sample Size Calculator: In the development
of one of our work statements, the Research Subcommittee needed
to calculate the sample size required to obtain statistically
significant results. We developed a simple
spreadsheet for making this calculation, based on the
answers to several questions. We are providing the spreadsheet
without restriction. Remember, it's usually best to have someone
with a good understanding of statistics take a look at your
experimental design, so you don't waste time and money collecting
data that don't successfully answer the research questions.
Additional Research Ideas: In February
2000, Kenneth Gillespie, of PG&E (contact information on members-only
TC website) submitted a list of 27 additional
research ideas, with information on their status at that
time.
Subcommittee Membership: A list
of Research Subcommittee members is provided. TC members can
go to the members-only area
of the site to obtain contact information for the subcommittee
members.
Other Documents: Some additional documents are not
currently being provided on the public area of the site. TC
members can go to the members-only
area of the site to review them.
All files are in Adobe Acrobat format. The Adobe
Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free from the Adobe web
site. To download files using Internet Explorer,
Right-click the document name and choose "Save Target
As" option.
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Research
Chair:
Dave Shipley
Marbek Resource Consultants
eMail: Dave
Shipley (shipley@marbek.ca)
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