2011 Battle of the Buildings - Iowa State University Alumni Association

2011 Battle of the Buildings

May 5, 2011

ISU Alumni Center to compete in 2011
ENERGY STAR National Building Competition

The ISU Alumni Center, home of the Iowa State University Alumni Association on the ISU campus, has been selected to participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR National Building Competition, Battle of the Buildings, to help improve the energy efficiency of commercial buildings and protect the environment. The ISU Alumni Association will battle it out against hundreds of other teams from buildings across the country to work off the waste through improvements in energy efficiency with help from EPA’s ENERGY STAR program.

The 2011 ENERGY STAR National Building Competition includes 245 teams from 26 different types of commercial buildings that hail from 33 states and the District of Columbia. Eleven buildings are 100 years old or greater; the smallest building is just over 6,000 square feet, and 15 buildings cover more than 1 million square feet of floor space with the largest totaling nearly 3 million square feet. The ISU Alumni Center, which opened on Beach Ave. in the Iowa State Center complex in 2008, is a 34,500-square-foot facility housing the staff and programs of the ISU Alumni Association.

“Buildings of all shapes and sizes are saving money and energy with help from EPA and ENERGY STAR,” said Jean Lupinacci, Director of EPA’s ENERGY STAR Commercial Buildings Program. “We applaud the contestants of EPA’s ENERGY STAR National Building Competition for taking action to protect the environment and save energy in the buildings where we work, play, and learn.”

Competitors will measure and track their building’s monthly energy consumption using EPA’s ENERGY STAR online energy tracking tool, make improvements to their building’s energy performance, and share their progress. Of the initial pool of 245 competitors, a small group of buildings will be selected as finalists in July. Among the finalists, the building that demonstrates the greatest percentage-based reduction in energy use intensity will be recognized as the winner on Nov. 2, 2011.

 

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