eeBuildings News, Events, and Information

## December 2003

### In this Issue

1.  Sharing Lessons from the US: Hines

2.  Highlights from eeBuildings September 2003 Trip to Shanghai, China

3.  eeBuildings to Bring US Controls Team to Shanghai, China

4.  Benchmarking Tips: What is the Difference Between Actual and
    Weather-Normalized data?

5.  Conferences and Events

6.  Help Us Build a Better Newsletter

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1.  Sharing Lessons from the US: Hines

Hines is one of the largest and most successful real estate companies in
the world, with a portfolio including more than 80 million square feet
(7.4 million square meters) of Class A office space throughout the US
and abroad and assets exceeding \$13 billion. Hines is also a three-time
winner of the US Environmental Protection Agency's prestigious ENERGY
STAR Award for Excellence in Energy Management. Hines attributes much of
its success in the global real estate marketplace to its ongoing
commitment to energy efficiency. By reducing the energy consumption of
the buildings it manages, Hines is able to reduce occupancy costs for
its tenants. According to the company president, Jeff Hines, \"Hines is
always looking for ways to improve our energy efficiency. Being a good
corporate citizen is important to us, but a nice by-product is that our
tenants enjoy lower occupancy costs. Everyone wins.\"

Hines demonstrates its commitment to energy efficiency by:

-   Benchmarking the energy performance of its eligible real estate
    portfolio. At the end of 2002, Hines had benchmarked more than 62
    million square feet (5.7 million square meters) of office space
    using the US EPA benchmarking tool
    ([www.epa.gov/eeBuildings/benchmarking](http://www.epa.gov/eeBuildings/benchmarking))
    and achieved an average portfolio-wide score of 70 out of 100.

-   Actively communicating to tenants and joint-venture partners that
    cost effective and efficient use of energy is not only good for the
    environment but also good for a company's financial performance. In
    2002, Hines developed "Tenant Cards" (postcard-size communications
    documents that can be easily distributed) to educate office tenants
    on Hines' commitment to energy efficiency and to make them aware of
    the environmental and financial benefits.

-   Implementing low-cost operational measures in the buildings it
    manages. Through simple, low-cost operational improvements, Hines
    was able to reduce the annual energy bill for an office building in
    Chicago, Illinois by approximately \$278,033 (¥2,301,167.93). Among
    the measures implemented were:

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  Operational Measure       Method                   Annual Savings

  Use interior zones to     BAS programming          \$ 49,536 (¥ 409,989)
  warm the exterior zones                            
  of the building                                    

  Clean CAV/AHU fan wheels  Vacuum as part of        \$ 19,656 (¥ 162,684)
                            maintenance              

  Solicit cooperation from  Awareness campaign --    \$ 5,000 (¥ 41,383)
  tenants                   draw blind, conserve     
                            when convenient          
  ------------------------- ------------------------ ---------------------

To view a list of approaches that Hines uses to improve the energy
performance of the buildings it manages, link to:
<http://www.epa.gov/eeBuildings/hines_ideas.pdf>

-   Speaking at conferences and trade association meetings about the
    value of energy efficiency. In 2002, Hines delivered presentations
    at the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) conferences
    in Houston, Minneapolis, and Atlanta; the Association of Energy
    Engineer's (AEE) conference in Atlanta; and the National Association
    of Energy Service Company's (NAESCO) conference in Orlando.

Hines currently manages buildings in eleven foreign countries, including
China. For more information on Hines's services access
[www.Hines.com](http://www.Hines.com/) or contact:

In US Contact:

Mr. William Larson

Regional Operations Manager

<William_Larson@hines.com>

Mr. Frank (Skip) Weiss

Regional Engineering Manager

<Skip_Weiss@hines.com>

In China contact:

Geoff Quinn

Director Facilities Management Beijing China

Geoff_Quinn@hines.com

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2\. eeBuildings September 2003 Trip to Shanghai

eeBuildings program staff just returned from their third trip to
Shanghai, China. Highlights of the trip included:

-   Training a class of 30 future facility managers at Tongji
    University's Department of Facilities Engineering & Management on
    low-cost operating practices and energy performance benchmarking
    with the US EPA Benchmarking tool.

-   Meeting with our partners and hearing about their reduced energy
    costs as a result of implementing operational improvement measures.

-   Touring partners' buildings to learn more about opportunities and
    barriers for low-cost operational improvements in Shanghai and to
    begin the process of choosing a building for our upcoming building
    improvement project.

Thank you to all with whom we met on the September trip for your support
and involvement in eeBuildings:

> Association of Shanghai Property Managers
>
> CB Richard Ellis -- www.cbre.com.cn
>
> JM Imtech -- www.cbre.com.cn
>
> Johnson Controls -- www.johnsoncontrols.com
>
> Jones Lang LaSalle - www.joneslanglasalle.com.cn
>
> Shanghai Economic Commission
>
> Shanghai Energy Conservation Company
>
> Shanghai Energy Conservation Supervision Center
>
> Shanghai ESCO Guidance Committee
>
> Shanghai Jiatong University
>
> Shanghai Macro Home Real Estate Co. -- www.macrohome.com.cn
>
> Siemens -- www.siemens.com
>
> Tongji University Department of Facilities Engineering & Management

In the next issue of this newsletter, we hope to share examples of the
operational measures that have been implemented in China by our partners
to reduce energy costs, increase profits, satisfy clients, and minimize
environmental impact. If you have examples or case studies you would
like to share, please send them to <eeBuildings@epa.gov>.

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3\. eeBuildings to Bring a US Controls Team to Shanghai, China in
January 2004

As many of our partners learned on the September trip, eeBuildings plans
to bring a US controls team to Shanghai in 2004 to document
opportunities for saving money through the optimal use of building
controls. This team will work with a building owner and facility
management team in a high-profile, class A building to identify low-cost
opportunities for reducing energy use and will both train the staff and
work with the staff to maximize building performance. The results will
be documented and shared with other property management companies in
Shanghai (or other interested parties).

If you would like to suggest a candidate building or learn more about
this project, please write to <eeBuildings@epa.gov>.

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4\. Benchmarking Tips: What is the difference between actual and
weather-normalized data?

Once you have inputted the required energy and building data into
Portfolio Manager to generate a benchmark score (a score from 1 to 100,
where 50 is average energy performance), you can choose to view this
score based on "actual data" or "weather-normalized data." Here is the
difference between how the two:

> Actual data - reflects the actual energy used or delivered to your
> building.
>
> Weather-normalized data - starts with the actual data then
> mathematically adjusts it compared to the energy typically used in an
> average year for the same location. This accounts for weather
> differences from year to year that may result in abnormally high or
> low energy consumption. Portfolio Manager requires at least 10 periods
> of energy data during a year to calculate weather-normalized data.

Portfolio Manager currently provides weather-normalized data for 6
Chinese cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Chengdu, and
Hong Kong.

To benchmark your building, go to
[www.epa.gov/eeBuildings/benchmarking](http://www.epa.gov/eeBuildings/benchmarking).
If you have forgotten your username or password, contact us at
<eeBuildings@epa.gov>.

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5\. Conferences and Events

Gary McNeil, EPA head of eeBuildings, addressed the \"International
Workshop on Government Energy Management\" in Beijing 2 months ago. The
conference, held September 21-22, was sponsored by the Energy Foundation
and hosted by China\'s new National Development and Reform Committee
(NDRC). NDRC is a new \"super-agency\" which combines and elevates a
number of functions including energy efficiency and economic
development. Mr. McNeil spoke on the central role of ENERGY STAR product
labels and building energy efficiency certification in the Federal
Energy Management Program (FEMP) and related measures (such as Executive
Orders) that promote energy efficiency in federal facilities. The speech
also covered ENERGY STAR's role in state and municipal energy efficiency
programs. Other speakers included representatives from Australia,
Canada, the EU, Japan and Korea. The goal of the conference was to
provide basic information to Chinese policymakers. The conference also
established the authority of ICBB\'s partner CECP (China Certification
Center for Energy-Efficient Products) in this subject area, and
emphasized CECP\'s partnership with EPA.

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6\. Help us Build a Better Newsletter

\- We'd like to hear about your progress. If you have had successful
experiences improving the energy efficiency of your buildings outside
the US, please let us know at <eeBuildings@epa.gov>.

\- We are interested in linking to other websites. In 2003, eeBuildings
will be adding links to Partner websites from the eeBuildings website.
Please send us your links or let us know if you would like to be added
to the list.

\- If you have suggestions for how to improve the content of this
newsletter, please send them to <eeBuildings@epa.gov>.

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To learn more about eeBuildings, visit <http://www.epa.gov/eeBuildings>
or

e-mail <eeBuilding@epa.gov>.

To learn more about ENERGY STAR, visit
[http://www.energystar.gov](http://www.energystar.gov/).

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The US Environmental Protection Agency's eeBuildings (energy-efficient
Buildings) program helps international building owners, managers, and
tenants improve the energy performance of their buildings. Drawing on
the expertise of ENERGY STAR, eeBuildings connects financial and
environmental performance to energy efficiency.

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