Making Your Building More Efficient:

Upcoming Legislation & Incentives

Barry Hooper  San Francisco Dept of Environment  March 23, 2010

SF Environment
Green Building Role
Policy
Incentives
Technical Assistance
Outreach

Municipal Commercial Residential

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 Leading by Example Priority Permit Incentive
Environmental Review and Building Permit
• Recreation Centers
• Transit Terminals Standard Timeframe – 2007 – 2008
• Museums
• Hospitals 0 6-9
months
• Libraries LEED Gold Timeframe – 2007 - 2008
• Offices
0 1 month

122 LEED AP Staff

• Scope
Priority Permit - 2009 •Commercial and
Residential
Environmental Review and Building Permit •New Construction
Standard Timeframe – Present • Composition
•Owners
0 Step right up!
•Developers
•Financial
LEED Gold Timeframe – Q3 2009 •Architects
•Engineers
•Contractors
0 Similar

• Emphasis
•Predictability
•Substantive
requirements
•Design Flexibility

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 Green Building Requirements
2008 Current 2010 2011 2012
New Commercial
Large
LEED Certified LEED Silver LEED Gold
≥ 25k ft
Mid-Size
LEED checklist + Local Priority Measures
5k – 25k sq ft
Renovations
First Time
Tenant LEED Certified LEED Silver LEED Gold
>25k sq ft
Major
Alteration LEED Certified LEED Silver LEED Gold
>25k sq ft
New Residential
High Rise
LEED Certified LEED Silver
≥ 75' height

Midsize GreenPoints GreenPoint

25 GreenPoints GreenPoint Rated - 75 Points
5+ units Checklist Rated

GreenPoint
August 4, 2008
Small GreenPoints
25 GreenPoints GreenPoint Rated Rated - 75
≤4 units Checklist
Points

Local Priority Requirements

(2009) Historic Preservation
Rating LEED Silver
• Goals Mechanism
20% Reduction
Indoor Water Use
(WEp1) • Preserve historic • Preservation reduces
Category: resources LEED requirement
New Large Water Efficient 50% Reduction • Retain embodied • Demolition increases
Commercial Landscaping (WEc3.1) LEED requirement
energy
Buildings Stormwater Meet SFPUC guidelines
Management (SS 6.1 and 6.2*)

Construction
Debris 75% Diversion
(MR 2.2)
Management

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 Photo Courtesy: Adobe Systems

Green Building Growth

in San Francisco
As of 1/10/10:
20
18.9M sq ft

Million Square Feet

15

10

0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2,008 2009 2010

Existing Buildings Operations & Maintenance

New Construction & Major Renovations (LEED NC and CS)
Tenant Improvements (LEED CI)

Source: NAI BT Commercial

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 Water Efficiency Requirements
Triggered by large TI,
Or: Retrofit by 2017

• Showerhead: ≤2.5 gpm

• Faucet: ≤ 2.2 gpm
• Toilet: ≤ 1.6 gpf
• Urinal: ≤ 1.0 gpf
• Repair all leaks

• Details: www.sfwater.org

San Francisco Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scope

• Existing Commercial
(2005)
Composition
• Owners’
Representatives
• Property Managers
Municipal
Industrial • Contractors
10%
14% • Operators
• Engineers
Transportation Buildings • Architects
Residential
55% 45% Commercial
39% 37% • Finance
• Utilities
The Task
• Cost effective energy
savings
• Minimum costs
Sources: PG&E, Hetch Hetchy Water and Power, CA. Dept of Transportation, MTC, Muni, BART.
• Measureable

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 Existing Commercial Buildings: Existing Commercial Buildings:
Proposed Goal Recommended Strategy
• Existing goals Figure 2: Energy and Climate Goals
are similar 120.0%
Applicable to San Francisco • Identify potential savings
SF Emissions Targets
Annual Energy Use or CO2e Emissions as Fraction of 1990

• Target 50% Verified SF Emissions • Enable informed decisions by all parties

energy use 100.0%

• Engage tenants
CA Emissions 1990 - 2004
and AB 32 Targets
reduction over 80.0%
CEESP - Existing Buildings

20 years BOMA 7-Point Challenge

• Submeter
Baseline

60.0%

• Educate and mentor

40.0% 2.5% Annual Reduction

• Provide public financing

20.0%

• Lead by example: Efficient public facilities

0.0%
1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050

Existing Commercial Buildings:

Recommended Strategy

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 ECB: Impact Estimate Energy Efficiency Program

• City of San Francisco and Pacific Gas Electric 
10-Year Net
Fraction of
Stock
Net Annual
Maximum
Annual
Present
Direct Job
Contract
Scenario Energy Value to
Audited Incentive Creation
Annually
Reduction
Budget
Private
Sector
• Benefits
Voluntary
Audits and 10%
– Free on‐site energy assessments
CA Public (50% after 5 1.3% $24 Million $382 Million 357 Jobs – Incentives 
Goods years)
Incentives
– Ongoing energy savings
20%
ECB
Strategy
(100% after 4.2% $39 Million $612 Million 578 Jobs – Services available in Spanish, Cantonese, and 
5 Years)
Mandarin
– Save energy, money and the environment!

Recent Accomplishments

• From March ’07 to September ’09, SFEW:
– Paid out $4.3 million in incentives
– Saved over 1,400 Businesses more than $7 million 
in energy costs
• Equivalent to saving:
– Over 50 million kWH and 18,000 Therms
– Over 15 thousand tons avoided GHG emissions
– Power for 7,250 homes for 1 year

2/25/10 v02

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 Property Eligibility Process: Micro-bond
Property Owner Administrator
• Must be a property that pays property taxes Estimated*  1 ­ Submit Application
– Therefore excludes city/county buildings, public Interest Rate Includes Project Details Package
5 business days

schools, etc. (although may include non-profits) 2 ­ Receive Notice to Proceed

(10 for commercial)
• verify eligibility
Includes Funding Reservation

• Property types 3 ­ Install Project

– Multifamily (> 4 units) Final* 4 ­ Submit Funding Request
• E.g. Condos, apartments complexes Interest Rate Includes Verification Documents 5 business days
• verify project compliance
– Commercial 5 ­ Receive Assessment Contract Documents
• generate contract docs

• E.g. Office buildings, malls, hotels, restaurants 6 ­ Submit Assessment Contract Package 20 business days
• place lien
– Industrial 7 ­ Receive Payment • issue bond
• E.g. Factories, warehouses, industrial parks • remit payment
County 8 ­ Pay Back via Property Taxes
**Note:Timing is approximate

29 30
*Both the estimated rate and the final interest rate are dependent on market conditions at the time of submission.

Status: Benchmark & Audits Why rather than ?

Benchmark and Audit Legislation
• Nearing completion
• Coordinating with:
– EPA Portfolio Manager upgrades
– AB 1103 Regulation development
– AB 758 linkage
– ASTM Building Energy • Required by AB 1103 • Challenging for Class B
Performance Disclosure
• Simple rating • Commissioning req’d
(WK24707)
• Ventilation (ASHRAE
• Priority on minimizing cost and • More widespread use
additional paperwork 62.1 2007)
• Any building can use • SF supports with existing
Portfolio Manager codes, incentives &
– However, not all resources (for water,
buildings can get a energy, waste, and
rating
transit)

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 Portfolio Manager
Reporting
City requests Energy Performance Report
Mechanism by sending a link (email, post)
(Proposed)

Building Owner/Manager logs in or

creates a Portfolio Manager account using the link.
SF Energy Performance Report is now
in their list of report templates.

Building Owner selects facilities for reporting, and releases

summary data

City accesses a master Shared Report with consolidated data

from all Building Owners

City publishes summary data

Image Courtesy: 3D CyberCity and Google Image Courtesy: 3D CyberCity and Google

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 Urban Ecomap
Carbon Footprint

(Illustrative
interpolation
courtesy of
Skidmore,
Ownings & Merrill)

For More Details

Barry Hooper
barry.hooper@sfgov.org
Ph: (415) 355-3753
San Francisco Dept of Environment
www.sfenvironment.org/greenbuilding
SF Energy Watch
www.sfenergywatch.org
(see also East Bay Energy Watch, Marin, San Mateo, Silicon Valley…)
Green Finance SF
www.greenfinancesf.org (also California First ~ July 2010)
AB 1103
www.energy.ca.gov/ab1103/
Automated Benchmarking
www.pge.com/benchmarking
San Francisco 24x7 Energy Challenge
www.sfenvironment.org/247

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