Accelerating Adoption of Green Building Technologies - Jamie James

Accelerating Adoption of Green Building Technologies

Jamie JamesPresident, Tower Labs @MaRS

Sustainable Buildings Canada

April 25, 2012

2011Living Building, Portland, OR

Slide Courtesy of www.USGBC.org

Buildings & Construction

• Canadian Construction, Machinery & Equipment = $345B-$350B (www.statcan.gc.ca)

• ON Construction (2009) = $97B (5% of GDP)

• US Construction = ~13% of $13T GDP

• Global construction = 8%-10% of global GDP

R & DDDemonstration Deployment

Innovation, Emerging

Technology real estate owners/developers

Demonstration-to-Deployment

Project MGTM&V

The Tridel Group of Companies• Family-owned, Toronto-Based• Vertically integrated Condominium Developer• 7 decades, 65,500 homes• ~1,500 homes/year

The MaRS Institute & Discovery District• Toronto’s Innovation Hub• Independent NGO• 3 Practices: ICT, CleanTech, Health Sciences• 500 Active Clients across sectors• Advisory services for entrepreneurs

Tridel XXXXXXXXXXXXX

FOUNDERS

PROGRAMS

Advanced Materials for Building Energy Recovery

In Suite Ventilation Air HRV vs ERVHRV: Heat Recovery Ventilators. Sensible heat only recovered

ERV: Energy Recovery Ventilator - total energy in the air is recovered (heat + moisture) ERV

HRV

EVOLUTION OF CONDOMINIUM VENTILATION

The Old Way of Doing Things

Ventilation Air Energy Recovery

EVOLUTION OF CONDOMINIUM VENTILATION2nd Generation: Improved

EVOLUTION OF CONDOMINIUM VENTILATION3rd Generation: Stand Alone In-Suite Units

Integrated De-centralized ER Ventilation

EVOLUTION OF CONDOMINIUM VENTILATION3rd Generation (Phase 2): Integrated HVAC Systems

Evaluating New Approaches for Greater Flexibility

ERV

FAN COIL

ERV with dPoint

Fan CoilWith ERV +dPoint

Deployment

Multi-Phase Pilot/Demonstration + M&V

Test Units

~700 Units

With Support From:

Test Units

Test UnitsTest Units

Solar Co-generation

Source: The Toronto Star

The First Mechatronic Variable Speed Drive (MVSD)What? •To become the world’s most efficient and cost-effective Variable Speed Drive (VSD)•VSDs vary the speed of electric motors, dramatically reducing energy consumption

For?•Any motor, engine or generator that will benefit from variable speed•First target market: Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC) motors driving fans & pumps = a billion $ market opportunity

Why? reduce VSD costs & harmonics

• Morphing pulleys, synchronized shifting a world’s first

• less expensive, more efficient & robust than VFDs - no problematic harmonics

• Shifts under load

• High torque start-up capability

Technology Validation•Beta Assembly Proven in a live environment

• 20hp motor, York Makeup Air Unit (rooftop fan) • 24 story condominium in Toronto, Canada

•Higher efficiency and harmonic claims verified

Building Energy Use Comparison

LEED

Pre-LEED

LEED vs pre-LEED Building Comparison

Residential Electricity-18%

Building Electricity-7%

Natural Gas- 50%

25% reduction in energy costs

Building Energy Use Comparison

Modeling Stack Effect

Problem:• Uncontrolled airflows in tall buildings may increase Make Up Air requirements and negatively impact the performance of mechanical systems

Modeling Stack Effect

Stack Effect Modeling Study

For more information, please contact: Paul Bottero, President

Phone: 416-605-7470Email: pbottero@inmotive.com

www.inmotive.com

For more information, please contact: David Kriebel

Phone: 604-488-1132Email: dkriebel@dpoint.ca

www.dpoint.ca

Tower Labs is grateful for support from our initial sponsors: 

THANK YOU

For more information, please contact: Jamie James, President

Phone: 416-673-6516Email: jjames@towerlabs.org

Subhi Alsayed, Director of Projects Phone: 416-673-6516

Email: salsayed@towerbs.org

www.towerlabs.org