This practical reference consolidates essential data, tools, and insights for energy professionals into a single, time-saving resource. Combining tables, charts, and key facts with real-world context, it highlights system interactions, trade-offs, synergies, and common pitfalls.
The book emphasizes optimization strategies that preserve occupant comfort and business operations, covering efficiency assessments, retrofit approaches, automated controls, and methods for estimating—and sustaining—energy savings.
While focused on commercial buildings, the guidance extends to industrial applications, including process optimization, heat recovery, steam systems, compressed air, power factor correction, and water treatment.
The 4th edition features updated content and expanded coverage of demand management, interval data analysis, balance temperature applications, advanced heat pump systems, lighting efficiency, regression techniques, and tertiary pumping optimization.
Drawing on over 30 years of experience and 300+ energy audits, this trusted resource delivers practical, field-tested knowledge for improving energy performance.
energy audit
energy management
water management
water efficiency
building energy use
DSM
demand side management
demand response
demand management
demand limiting
automatic control
process control
compressed air efficiency
regression of energy use
interval data
energy use intensity
energy savings opportunities
energy use intensity
control optimizing
HVAC control strategies
most-open-valve control
heat exchanger approach
maintenance energy benefits
quantifying energy savings
load-following concept (for energy management)
measurement and verification
M&V
energy efficiency measure interactions
HVAC load profile
load profile
efficiency profile
bin weather
psychrometrics
balance temperature for buildings
thermal balance
weather dependence
ventilation cost
thermal storage
heat recovery
district heating
load factor
control sequences that do not work or work poorly
HVAC economizer
process humidification
energy savings decline
thermal energy transport
part load HVAC efficiency
tertiary pumping
refrigeration cycle
evaporative cooling
spot cooling
cold climate heat pump
high lift heat pump
motor loss sources
power factor correction
combustion efficiency
flue gas heat recovery
compressed air compressor control
compressed air leaks
capacity modulation for fans and pumps
synchronous belts
affinity laws
wire-to-water efficiency
pumps with lift
task lighting
lighting levels
stack effect
infiltration
building load coefficient
overall U-value
glazing properties
standby losses for water heater
standby losses for boiler
degree-days
emission conversion factors
coefficient of performance
load factor (for electricity use)
altitude correction
process water
reverse osmosis
ultra-pure water
cooling tower water use
cycles of concentration
water accounting
regression for energy management
regression indicators
data center efficiency
data center power food chain
hot aisle HVAC for data center
cold aisle HVAC for data center
overlapping heating-cooling in HVAC
HVAC retrofits
proportional pumping
energy survey look-for items
simple payback vs. internal rate of return
evaporation loss from heated tanks
integrated design
service life of various components
Indoor air quality mistakes
Net Zero definitions
building lease definitions
building commissioning definitions
equate energy savings to profit increase
- Benchmarking
- Analyzing Energy Use Graphs
- Energy Savings Opportunities by Business Type
- Manufacturing and Unit Operations
- ECM Descriptions
- Utility Rate Components
- Automatic Control Strategies
- Building Operations and Maintenance
- Quantifying Savings
- Sustaining Savings
- Mechanical Systems
- Motors, VSDs, and Electrical Information
- Combustion Equipment and Systems
- Compressed Air
- Fan/Pump Control and Belt Drives
- Lighting
- Envelope Information
- Domestic Water Heating
- Weather Data
- Pollution and Greenhouse Gases
- Formulas and Conversions
- Water Efficiency
- Regression for Energy Management
- Special Topics
24A-Data Center Efficiency
24B-Percent Per Degree Rule of Thumb for Refrigeration Cycle Improvement
24C-Early Replacement Business Case
24D-HVAC Overlapping Heating and Cooling
24E-Coordinating Upstream / Downstream Setpoints
24F-Semiconductor Fab Multi-Stage HVAC Air Tempering
24G-HVAC Retrofits for the Three Worst Systems
24H-Chilled Water System Discussion and ECMs
24I-Concepts and Samples to Identify Efficiency Measures
24J-Part Load HVAC Efficiency
24K-Energy Use Signatures as an Operational Control
24L-Facility Guide Specification: Suggestions to Build-In Energy Efficiency