Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings

Technical Report · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1342751· OSTI ID:1342751

Mills, Evan ^[1]; Granderson, Jessica ^[1]; Chan, Rengie ^[1]; Diamond, Richard ^[1]; Haves, Philip ^[1]; Nordman, Bruce ^[1]; Mathew, Paul ^[1]; Piette, Mary Ann ^[1]; Robinson, Gerald ^[1]; Selkowitz, Stephen ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

When it comes to innovation in energy and building performance, one can expect leading-edge activity from the technology sector. As front-line innovators in design, materials science, and information management, developing and operating high-performance buildings is a natural extension of their core business. The energy choices made by technology companies have broad importance given their influence on society at large as well as the extent of their own energy footprint. Microsoft, for example, has approximately 250 facilities around the world (30 million square feet of floor area), with significant aggregate energy use of approximately 4 million kilowatt-hours per day (Figure 1).

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1342751
• Report Number(s): LBNL-1005070; ir:1005070
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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