{"id":386,"date":"2015-04-20T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/?post_type=project&p=386"},"modified":"2015-04-20T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T18:18:41","slug":"port-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/project\/port-charlotte\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Charlotte FL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Florida County saves $39,000 a Year<\/h1>\n

A Building Envelope Improvement Project Case Study<\/h5>\n

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Project Information<\/h2>\n

Size:<\/strong>\u00a0325,768 ft2 across 4 buildings<\/p>\n

Type<\/strong>:\u00a0Government<\/p>\n

Project Completion:<\/strong> 2014<\/p>\n

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Key Metrics<\/h2>\n

Project Cost:<\/strong> $243,300<\/p>\n

Annual Electric Savings:<\/strong>\u00a0466,259 kWh<\/p>\n

Annual Cost Savings:<\/strong> $39,632<\/p>\n

Simple Payback:<\/strong>\u00a06.14 years<\/p>\n

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Project Description<\/h2>\n

A sound building envelope is critical for maintaining building energy efficiency, comfort, and durability in hot and humid climates like Florida. At this Charlotte County project The Energy Partners (TEP) was contracted to audit four buildings to identify financially viable energy conservation measures (ECMs) to improve building performance and occupant comfort.<\/p>\n

Opportunity was found to improve all of these buildings with TEP modeling operation cost savings of over $39,000 per year. ECMs implemented include insulating walls above drop ceilings and air sealing roof wall intersections, two commonly found envelope deficiencies.<\/p>\n

Less common, are uninsulated exterior walls below the drop ceiling. That was the discovery at a high energy use storage room holding important records with high humidity levels. By injecting the CMU walls with spray foam and hollow sheetrock with dense pack cellulose the HVAC system should be more properly sized to handle the latent and sensible loads in the storage room. Additional measure include repairing roof deck insulation and weather-stripping doors.<\/p>\n

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Energy Conservation Measures<\/h2>\n

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-Insulating walls above dropped ceilings<\/h4>\n

-Air sealing roof wall intersections<\/h4>\n

-Spray foam & cellulose core fill wall insulation<\/h4>\n

-Replacing damaged roof insulation<\/h4>\n

-Door weather-stripping<\/h4>\n

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Energy Conservation Measure Spotlight<\/h1>\n

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Insulating Metal Side Walls above Dropped Ceilings<\/h3>\n

Commonly overlooked, the walls in the plenum space that start at the drop tile ceiling and extend to an insulated roof should be insulated. At this building in Charlotte County a large I-beam and a 3\u201d air gap are all that separate this plenum space from an unconditioned breezeway. This detail allows significant thermal bridging and air leakage. The solution is to insulate them with closed cell spray foam as shown at right that will not only insulate the I-beam but also seal the air gap at the roof wall intersection.<\/p>\n

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Before<\/h4>\n

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After<\/h4>\n

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Core Fill Wall Insulation<\/h3>\n

A storage record room with insufficient climate control was improved by core filling the walls to isolate it from the rest of the uninsulated portion of the building. Hollow sheetrock walls (pictured left) were dense packed with cellulose insulation.
\nHollow CMU walls were also injected with spray foam. These improvements help to reduce the load on the building which in turn allows the HVAC system to work more efficiently to keep the climate properly controlled and reduce unnecessary energy use.<\/p>\n

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Hollow Wall Cavity<\/h4>\n

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Core Fill in Process<\/h4>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Florida County saves $39,000 a Year A Building Envelope Improvement Project Case Study
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Project Information Size:\u00a0325,768 ft2 across 4 buildings Type:\u00a0Government Project Completion: 2014 Key Metrics Project Cost: $243,300 Annual Electric Savings:\u00a0466,259 kWh Annual Cost Savings: $39,632 Simple Payback:\u00a06.14 years
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Project Description A sound building envelope is critical for maintaining building energy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"project_category":[16],"project_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theenergypartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}