Quality Assurance Protocol Technical Forum Agenda

Tuesday, April 29, 2014
1 pm EST (60 min)Conference Number: (415) 854-0868

Compile and discuss available resources, tools, and best practices regarding quality assurance methods.

QA Checklist Elements:

• Data - historical energy usage
  
• completeness of data collection and validity of data
• utility data analysis - stability and normalization
  
• retrofit isolation baseline development

• Data - and building system operation / building asset data
  
• building data collection methods and processes
• asset data collection
  
• operational and performance data collection
• Data - load profile
  
• data collection and analysis
  
• Investment criteria
  
• SPB, SIR, IRR, NPV
  
• Cost estimates
  
• Implementation cost reasonableness
  
• Energy modeling
  
• quality assurance and calibration
  
• ECM modeling
  
• Spreadsheet calculations
  
• quality assurance regarding methods and assumptions
  
• reasonability review methods
  
• Operational performance verification
  
• resources
  
• report templates
  
• system manuals - concise
  
• Operations, maintenance and monitoring
  
• FDD tools / resources
  
• RCx tools / resources
  
• Operator’s manual templates
  
• Training
  
• M&V
  
• Automated tools
  
• Resources
  
• Templates (M&V plans and reports)
  
• Uncertainty and risk
  
• methods for determining / quantifying uncertainty
  
• methods for determining risk
  
• Roles of third-party evaluators
  
• currently suggest third party performance of Cx
  
• currently suggest third part performance of M&V; at least require third party review of M&V
  
• Other QA topics that should be addressed?