First Data Corp. building was constructed in 2001.
After Continuous Commissioning heating
and cooling costs were reduced by 40 percent and qualified
for E NERGY S TAR® rating.
With a $125,000 U.S. Department of Energy SEP Special ProjectsRebuild America grant, the Energy Office and its partners, Energy Systems Laboratory at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln and Omaha Public Power District demonstrated the Continuous Commissioning Leading Retrofit Process (CCLRP) which allows building owners to make major energy efficiency improvements with little or no capital investment.
The project identified and recruited owners of 137 buildings, 29 of which had meters installed for hourly energy consumption. Detailed energy evaluations in 36 buildings totaling10.6 million square feet found potential annual cost savings of $3.2 million. The cost of the improvements was estimated at $14.3 million resulting in a simple payback of 4.5 years.
CCLRP was implemented in 14 buildings with 3.7 million square feet. Owners paid $1.6 million for efficiency
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