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Emissions Testing Center - Calif. Air Resources Board (Top) Testing Center - Calif. Air
Special Features: Entire all-electric campus (including food services) with ZNE performance.
LBNL Integrative Genomics Laboratory (Bottom)
Special Features: Includes 5,000 gsf all-electric Modular Utility Plant (MUP), which had sufficient capacity to support four additional buildings slated for the future.
Berkeley, California
LBNL Integrative Genomics Laboratory
Building Type: Three-story Of- fice/Lab Facility
Gross Floor Area: 403,300 gsf Occupied: 2021
Modeled EUI (Site)
55 kBtu/sf-year
Measured EUI (Site)
To be completed 2022
On-Site Renewable Energy System Installed
3,800 kW (DC) Solar PV
Measured On-Site Energy Production
To be completed 2022
HVAC System
Chilled beam with evapora-
tive cooling
DHW
Heat recovery w electric resistance
Project Team
Client:
California Air Resources Board, Sacramento
Architect:
ZGF Architects, L.A.
Mechanical Engineering:
Affiliated Engineers, L.A.
Riverside, California
Emissions Testing Center - Calif. Air Resources Board
Building Type: Four-Story Re- search Laboratory + Office Gross Floor Area: 80,914 gsf
Occupied: 2019 Modeled EUI (Site)
117 kBtu/sf-year
Measured EUI (Site)
106 kBtu/sf-year (2020-2021)
On-Site Renewable Energy System Installed (Planned) 300 kW (DC) Solar PV
Measured On-Site Energy Production
(PV system not yet installed)
HVAC System
Air Source Heat Pumps with chilled beams & radiant slabs. DOAS with heat recovery
DHW
Water/Air Source Heat Pumps
Project Team
Client:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Architect:
Smith Group, S.F.
Mechanical Engineering:
Integral Group, Oakland
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