2018 Getting to Zero Status Update and List of Zero Energy Projects

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2018

Getting to Zero Status

Update and List of

Zero Energy Projects

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TABLE OF

CONTENTS

1 Our Path to Zero Energy Buildings

3 Case Study: Santiago High School Science Classroom

4 Trends from NBI’s Getting to Zero Database

10 Residential Zero Energy Buildings

11 Policy Directives and Program Support:

Taking Zero Energy to Scale

13 Zero Energy Certiﬁcation: Collaboration and Expansion

14 Technology Spotlight: Radiant Cooling and

Heating Systems

15 Case Study: Radiant System at the Oregon

Department of Transportation Building

16 A New Hope: Zero Energy Today and for the Future

18 zEPI: A Simple, Versatile Scale for Measuring

Commercial Building Energy Performance

19 2018 Getting to Zero Buildings List of Certiﬁed, Veriﬁed

and Emerging Projects

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The Entrance Hall features a solar chimney

which helps regulate the temperature and

distributes natural light throughout the space.

Kohler Environmental Center, Choate Rosemary

Hall | Wallingford, CT

Photo Credit: Peter Aaron / OTTO

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THE PATH TO

ZERO ENERGY

BUILDINGS

Since 2010, New Buildings Institute has tracked the developing

market for zero energy buildings. We are pleased to share this latest

2018 Getting to Zero Status Update and Zero Energy Buildings List,

which summarizes the growth and trends from nearly 500 certiﬁed,

veriﬁed and emerging zero energy projects across the United States

and Canada.

As NBI celebrates its 20th anniversary, we reﬂect on the past to help put the present

and the future in context. In our early years there were only a handful of government

or academic buildings to reference as low-energy, sustainable or green. Design and

technologies for indoor comfort were predominantly the same as the preceding

decades—buildings were sealed boxes ﬁlled with mechanical methods to deliver

light, heating, cooling and ventilation. Energy policies were cautiously making small

incremental changes: the leading national energy code (ASHRAE Standard 90.1)

moved the bar by only 4% between the 1989 and 1999 versions. The building

sector surpassed industrial as the number one energy-consuming sector. Real

estate value and tenant attention rarely considered energy or green factors. There

were no LEED buildings, no ENERGY STAR

buildings, no Living Buildings, and

renewable energy had no measureable market adoption. Reducing energy use was

almost exclusively driven by utility efﬁciency programs focusing largely on ﬂuorescent

lighting upgrades.

So in 1997, NBI and others began working to create a low-energy future for

buildings for the beneﬁt of people and the planet. Rocky Mountain Institute was

15 years old and shaking things up with the “Soft Energy Path” and Amory Lovins’

extensive intellect and economic arguments. The U.S. Green Building Council

was working on the 2000 release of the ﬁrst edition of LEED and GreenBuild was

founded two years later. In 1999, ENERGY STAR moved from appliance standards

into buildings with the ﬁrst ENERGY STAR ofﬁce. The 2001 ‘Packard

Matrix’ showed the long-term economic viability of a “Living Building”

leading to the formation of the International Living Future Institute

in 2009. Ed Mazria turned up the heat on carbon and buildings in

2002 with the formation of Architecture 2030 turned up the heat with

the article “Architects Pollute” in 2003. The ﬁrst utility public beneﬁts

charges were collected and with them an infusion of funds for

efﬁciency programs, regional groups, and longer-term research on

energy technologies and renewables. The foundation for zero energy

(ZE) buildings was underway.

Two decades later, these efforts are reﬂected in NBI’s 2018 Getting

to Zero Status Update and Zero Energy Project List. Like many

new efforts, ZE buildings counts are still small in relation to the total

market—in the single-digit percentage of total buildings and ﬂoor

space. But a multitude of factors are accelerating ZE buildings and communities

such as emerging technologies, sensors and LEDs, dramatic price drops of solar

generation, energy storage, energy tracking and transparency, integrated and

passive design, climate concerns, and interest in ZE codes and resilient buildings.

The Gallery of the Kohler Environmental Center

wraps around the courtyard that insulates the

program areas from temperature variations

Kohler Environmental Center, Choate Rosemary Hall

| Wallingford, CT Photo Credit: Peter Aaron / OTTO

2018 Getting to Zero Status Update and List of Zero Energy Projects

This convergence, combined with other rapid advancements, foretells of a built

environment that will look very different when we share our story 20 years from now.

A generation ahead, we believe the majority of workers, students, and families will

spend their indoor hours in buildings that provide natural light and ventilation; have

superior thermal comfort through mixed-modes with occupant-level control; vary

design and windows by orientation; utilize shading and optimize views; have DC

power; dynamically respond to occupancy, weather, and workhours; automate

plug load management; produce renewable energy onsite; and use energy storage

and electric vehicles interactively with the electricity grid. They will do all this with

fewer materials and toxins, at a quarter or less of today’s energy and water, and

with little to no carbon emissions. We believe this because this report indicates it is

all possible today—and shows an encouragingly steep growth curve. From policies

to practitioners to speciﬁc-projects, the proof is in this report. The future of the built

environment is ZE buildings.

In the Buildings List, nearly 500 ZE commercial building projects

of all sizes, types

and in all climates are presented. Projects owned by for-proﬁt companies now

make up 26% of the List—greater than K-12 schools (18%) which are leaders in ZE

building adoption. Privately-held buildings

overall account for 46% of ZE buildings

approaching that of public buildings which were early adopters (see Fig 8).

The highest growth in new projects is in multifamily, with an increase of 40 buildings:

effectively doubling the count since 2016. Public assembly, schools, and ofﬁces are

next with strong increases in their number of projects. Education facilities continue

to be in the ZE spotlight, leading the List with 37% (178) of all projects. California is

paving the way for all schools to get to zero through its zero energy school retroﬁt

demonstrations. Community approaches are critical to scale ZE buildings and this

List includes community, district, and/or campus examples that are bringing groups

of buildings together on the path to zero.

We also have some newcomers in the ‘other’ building type category with four

new light manufacturing projects, a car dealership, and a ski area joining the

Getting to Zero early adopter corps. Healthcare, lodging, and retail are yet to

have much representation, likely due to their higher energy intensity and more

complex occupancy conditions, making the few we know of even more valuable

as exemplars. Warehouse/storage shares the low-end of adoption yet are in the

opposite position regarding ease to get to zero energy and should therefore be a

priority for accelerating adoption

We also share policy rankings for states working to realize energy and climate action

goals through stringency in energy codes, updates on residential ZE buildings

from the Net Zero Energy Coalition, tell about our two exciting new alliances on

ZE certiﬁcation, discuss our efforts to provide extensive resource references that

support the collective good work to make progress in Getting to Zero.

1 Buildings and Projects are used interchangeably in this report. The Getting to Zero List consists of both individual

buildings and some aggregated projects such as a campus ZE project, neighborhood development, or corporate portfolio.

Each is counted as a single ‘project’ in the List.

2 Privately owned includes corporations, small companies, individuals and non-proﬁts.

3 Warehouse and storage make up 14% of ﬂoorspace and 6% of total energy use of US non-mall commercial buildings.

US Energy Information Administration, Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, 2012

Suncoast Credit Union-Bushnell Service Center

Bushnell, FL

Cedit: Peter Aaron / OTTO

Buildings and Projects are

used interchangeably in

this report. The Getting

to Zero Buildings List

consists of both individual

buildings and some

aggregated projects

such as a campus ZE

project, neighborhood

development, or

corporate portfolio. Each

is counted as a single

‘project’ in the List.

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Santiago High School Science Classroom | Garden Grove, CA

zero energy school

case study

Garden Grove Uniﬁed School District (GGUSD) is a large, low-income school

district that has recently become a regional leader in zero energy. Historically the

district has prioritized investment of scarce resources into its students, rather

than into its facilities. While the district is ranked in the lowest 20% for household

income in California, its students’ test scores are in the top 20% in the state.

The school district is bringing facilities and student needs together with its new

science building at Santiago High School. When the deep energy retroﬁt is

complete in fall 2018, it will be a living laboratory for students and will serve as a

hub for the school’s environmental student groups. Students, teachers and staff

will be provided with all the energy use and system data for hands-on learning

opportunities and STEM educational practices. The project is aiming for an energy

use intensity (EUI) of 24.7 kBtu/sf/year and onsite renewable generation of 24.9

kBtu/sf/year, resulting in a projected net EUI of -0.2 kBtu/sf/year.

The ZE project team meets weekly with key stakeholders to foster cultural change

regarding energy efﬁciency. GGUSD believes that fostering this cultural shift

among students, teachers and staff may turn out to be the most cost-effective

investment of funds toward achieving ZE across the district in the long term. Many

energy conservation measures including daylighting devices, lighting controls

and automatic dimming will further reduce the lighting load to almost zero during

daytime hours, which account for most operating hours annually. Additionally,

natural ventilation and updates to the envelope, HVAC system, and controls are

being implemented. A dashboard will track and display real-time energy data to

educate students, teachers, and staff and encourage behavioral change.

GGUSD is a low-income district with a culture of frugality. It did not change its

values to invest in ZE retroﬁt projects. Instead, its emphasis on ﬁnancial thrift led to

this solution. GGUSD’s leadership shows that, under the right conditions, ZE can

make ﬁnancial sense for any school district.

Project Size: 8,069 SF

Construction Type: Retroﬁt

Construction Year: 2017

Building Type: K-12 Education

ASHRAE Climate Zone: 3B

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Growth in Zero Energy Buildings

In the ﬁrst Getting to Zero Status Update published by NBI in 2012, we proudly

reported 60 commercial and multifamily buildings or projects that were either Veriﬁed

as zero energy or were Emerging to that level. In 2018, the List includes nearly 500

projects and is on a steep curve upward, with our count (see Fig 2) increasing over

700% in those six years

. We now have information on 67 ZE Veriﬁed and 415 ZE

Emerging projects: a total of 482 projects identiﬁed in this report. By sharing the

speciﬁc names, locations, energy outcomes, and targets of these projects, the

wide applicability and potential of these high-performance buildings can be used to

inﬂuence owners, designers and policy makers.

The largest growth is in the ZE Emerging category. The

inﬂux of new projects setting these lofty objectives is a

reﬂection of both increased policy goals and market effects

of ZE buildings going more mainstream.

The Emerging ZE buildings are approximately evenly split

into two groups (see deﬁnitions on page 19 for details):

1. Not yet occupied or occupied less than one year

2. Occupied more than one year but not yet Veriﬁed as ZE

This second group underscores that achieving zero energy

is a process, not an end point and many projects need

further reﬁnement after occupancy.

Ultra-low Energy Buildings

The strong growth of ZE buildings is exciting for our

industry, but there are also many buildings reaching similar

levels of energy performance without the added step

of renewables or an ofﬁcial ZE goal. NBI has previously

included these in our reports as ultra-low energy (ULE)

buildings. These buildings are also often referred to as

near net zero, zero energy capable, or zero energy ready.

These buildings have similar energy performance as ZE

buildings and serve as additional examples of the building

design and operations to get to ZE energy performance

outcomes. The trailblazing project teams and owners

building ULE buildings have set the stage for today’s

growth in ZE buildings. But, this growth has introduced a

challenge for our Getting to Zero Buildings List—there are

simply too many projects that are pushing the limits of low

energy use to reasonably List. Therefore, this 2018 Getting

to Zero List includes only projects with a publicly stated

ZE goal. Although NBI is no longer listing ULE projects, we

are still gathering energy data from these projects to inform

research on design processes, HVAC system integration,

and other factors leading to low-energy outcomes.

4 This growth is based on the number of buildings on NBI’s List from 2012 – 2018.

TRENDS FROM

NBI’S GETTING

TO ZERO

DATABASE

ZNE Verified

Buildings and Districts

ZNE Emerging

Buildings and Districts

2012

2014

127

2016

2018

279

415

Number of Zero Energy Buildings

Zero Energy Building Growth

Number of Zero Energy Buildings

Fig 1. The Buildings List includes nearly 500 projects and is on a steep curve

upward, having increased over 700% since 2012.

Fig 2. There are now 67 ZE Veriﬁed and 415 ZE Emerging projects documented

by NBI.

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ZE Buildings in the United States and Canada

Zero energy buildings transcend climates and borders between the United States

and Canada with projects occurring in 44 of the U.S. states and four of the 10

Canadian provinces. California is by far the front-runner in ZE building activity, with

the San Diego and Los Angeles areas being the densest clusters in the state. The

San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley forms another large cluster, followed by

the Portland, Oregon, metro area, and the North Atlantic coast.

The top two states for ZE buildings (California and Oregon) account for half of all

the ZE buildings on the List. California’s leading energy policies, ambitious energy

reduction goals, and effective utility programs, as well as Oregon’s early ZE pilot

programs and incentives are clearly driving their rapid uptake in zero energy buildings.

The Northeast has six states ranked in the top 10 of the 2017 ACEEE State Energy

Efﬁciency Scorecard

and the west coast occupies three of the remaining four top

10 slots. The effects of strong energy efﬁciency policies and programs is a clearly a

factor propelling the zero energy movement in these leading states.

Regions, States and Provinces

The 482 ZE projects are shown by state and region with a regional view and growth

rate in the legend added this year. The map is also clustered where the six Regional

Energy Efﬁciency Organizations (REEOs) work to advance policies and practices

in their geographical area. California continues to lead in both total ZE projects and

growth rate while the Northeast and Southwest have seen ZE project growth of over

90% since 2014.

5 The 2017 ACEEE State Energy Efﬁciency Scorecard is the eleventh annual ranking of states on their efﬁciency policy

and program efforts, and can be found at: http://aceee.org/state-policy/scorecard

Fig 3. ZE Projects by region and state/province.

The legend shows regional growth trends in

projects since our 2014 List.

2018 Buildings List Project Locations

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Zero energy buildings are in every climate zone across the continental United

States. Most buildings in climate zones 3B and 3C are in California. By focusing

on super-tight, well-insulated envelopes, passive systems, and careful operations,

a small but growing number of ZE buildings have achieved success in even the

coldest and most extreme climate zone, which is climate zone 7.

Green building labels like the U.S.

Green Building Council’s Leadership

in Energy and Environmental Design

(LEED), the BREEAM certiﬁcation, and

the International Living Future Institute’s

(ILFI) Living Building Challenge (LBC)

have been a foundation for many of

these early projects. The framework of

a third-party certiﬁcation helps increase

the number of projects, knowledge,

and market awareness of low-energy

objectives.

USGBC staff reviewed the List and

found that over one-third of the ZE

Emerging projects (36%, or 174

projects) and 70% of the ZE Veriﬁed

projects are LEED registered or

certiﬁed. Fully three-quarters of these

LEED projects are at the Platinum or

Gold certiﬁed level, further connecting

the importance of LEED as an energy

and green building platform that drives

higher goals of zero energy.

With its Living Building Challenge (LBC)

certiﬁcation, ILFI has set the highest

bar for a green building label. In the

List, there are eight projects that have

achieved LBC certiﬁcation and 24 that

have achieved either Zero Energy or

LBC Energy Petal certiﬁcation. All in all,

a total of 32 projects in this List have

achieved ILFI Certiﬁcation at some level.

In May 2017, ILFI and NBI announced

a collaboration to connect ILFI’s

Zero Energy certiﬁcation and the NBI

Getting to Zero Buildings List into one

integrated Zero Energy platform (see

page 13 for details).

Fig 4. Zero Energy buildings are in every climate zone across the U.S.

The Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center

in Basalt, CO. is both a LEED Certiﬁed and Zero

Energy Certiﬁed Building.

Climate Zone Distribution of Zero Energy Projects

BUILDING RATING SYSTEMS

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Energy Performance of ZE Buildings

The ZE Veriﬁed projects on the List on average use 60% less energy than comparable

existing U.S. commercial buildings and 46% less energy than new buildings under

one of the most stringent U.S. base code.

The median gross site energy use intensity

(EUI) of ZE Veriﬁed projects is just 18 kBtu/sf/year (before renewables). The ZE

Emerging projects, which are a blend of measured and estimated energy use, have a

median gross site EUI of 24 kBtu/sf/year. These extremely low-energy outcomes are

the result of careful design, aggressive energy targets, and careful building operation

that typically includes operations and occupant education and engagement.

Building Size

The majority of Veriﬁed ZE buildings (roughly

80%) are smaller than 25,000 square

feet, reﬂecting the early trend of small

demonstration projects getting to zero, but

the ZE Emerging List tells a very different

story. The Emerging List building size is more

evenly distributed suggesting that not only are

more diverse size projects pursuing ZE, but

also that large ZE buildings are entering the

market. In the 2018 Emerging List more than

40% of all buildings and 88% of the total ﬂoor

space of ZE Emerging buildings are 50,000 sf

or larger.

6 For existing buildings, CBECS 2012 provides a useful baseline: the median U.S. ofﬁce building EUI is 53 kBtu/sf/year.

For new buildings, California’s Title 24 2016 energy code provides a good comparison, with a baseline new ofﬁce EUI of

37 kBtu/sf/year.

Fig 6. Nearly 30% of all buildings and 88% of the

total ﬂoor space of ZE Emerging buildings are

50,000 sf or larger.

Size Distribuition by ZE Category

Fig 5. This chart shows the range of energy usage (gross site EUI, not including renewables) for the zero energy projects in this List. The grey band covers the 20

the 80

percentile in each group.

Gross EUI Distribuition of ZE Projects

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Building Type

Zero energy buildings can be found across a growing number of building types.

Even high-energy intensity building types, such as hospitals and restaurants, are

ﬁnding innovative ways to pursue ZE. For example, the Gundersen Health System

in Wisconsin is targeting zero energy

on a portfolio basis and has invested

in a wind farm and a biogas-ﬁred

combined heat and power unit. As in

years past, the combined education

market, which includes K-12 schools,

higher education, and general

education, dominates the 2018

Getting to Zero List, making up 37%

of the projects. Breaking education

into its sub-categories brings ofﬁces to

the top: ofﬁce buildings now account

for one in ﬁve ZE buildings, while

K-12 schools are a close second at

18%. The building type distribution

is reasonably consistent across ZE

Veriﬁed and ZE Emerging buildings,

though multifamily projects are fairly new to the List and few have achieved ZE

veriﬁcation to date.

The ‘Other’ category includes building types ranging from airports to hospitals,

light industrial to retail, even a ski resort. As a growth trend, based both in terms

of rate of additions to the 2018 Getting to Zero List and market rate of growth, the

multifamily sector is poised for continued substantial additions.

Community, Districts, Portfolios, and Campuses

Pursuing ZE across sets of buildings is being done through districts, campuses,

in neighborhoods or city developments, and by portfolio owners such as the

military or corporations. These approaches to ZE within a physical area or portfolio

are critical paths to accelerate growth and scaling. Within our 2018 Getting to

Zero List, these projects are each counted individually at

the portfolio-level rather than at the building-level. While

this is not always representative of the total number of

‘buildings,’ it shows each project as a single decision

to get to zero as a portfolio. As this trend increases, the

dataset will expand, and we hope to dive deeper into

energy consumption and generation modes, portfolio

scale, inﬂuences and decision process in these larger

scale, multiple-building projects in the future.

Building Ownership

The picture is shifting when it comes to who owns ZE

buildings with those owned by for-proﬁt companies now

Fig 7. Zero energy buildings can be found across

many different building types.

Building Type Breakdown

Building Ownership Type Distribuition

Fig 8. Buildings owned by for-proﬁt companies now making up 26% of the List.

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making up 26% of the List. These companies can provide

valuable references on their business rationale for investing

in zero. The for-proﬁt ZE buildings also now have a larger

market share than K-12 schools (18% of the List) which

are a clear market leader. These are part of the 46% of

the ZE List that are privately held buildings. We anticipate

that as the ZE market matures it will continue approaching

the national distribution where 78% of U.S. commercial

buildings are privately held

Most ZE buildings (approximately 65%) owned by private

for-proﬁt organizations are ofﬁces and private schools. With

ofﬁces representing half of all for-proﬁt-owned projects while

private schools represent about another 15%. The remaining

35% varies signiﬁcantly but is mostly comprised of retail and

public assembly facilities.

The majority of publicly owned buildings on the List are

education facilities (60%)—similar to the market proportion of

education within public buildings. Nationally, higher education

accounts for about two-thirds of state-owned ZE facilities.

The remaining ZE projects at the state level are mostly

government ofﬁces and public assembly such as visitor

centers, museums and zoos.

As the Building List begins to more closely mirror the

market, the market can see that Getting to Zero is

achievable throughout our built environment.

Designing the Future

It takes a village to design, construct, and operate ZE

buildings, so we are very happy to see an increasing

diversity of ﬁrms reﬂected in the design-end of these leading

buildings. Although we are not always able to capture the

full teams involved in these projects, we recognize the

important role ﬁrms and individuals play in advocating for

advanced design and low-energy outcomes. The List this

year has approximately 70 unique mechanical-electrical-

plumbing (MEP) ﬁrms and over twice that many architecture

ﬁrms. Twenty-one percent (101) of the ZE projects are

ﬁrms have multiple projects that together represent 7% of

the List. Design ﬁrms are at the interface with clients and

projects, and the growth of their skills, knowledge and

conﬁdence in getting to zero expands the opportunity to

mainstream ZE buildings.

7 U.S. Energy Information Administration, Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption

Survey, 2012

Top ZE MEP Companies Top ZE Architect Firms

Integral Group EHDD

CMTA Engineers Maclay Architects

PAE Engineering HGA Architects

Stantec HMC Architects

KPFF Consulting Engineers ZGF Architects

Interface Engineering BNIM

Opsis Architecture

Fig 10. ZE Veriﬁed and ZE Emerging projects by ownership. Projects with

missing ownership data are excluded.

ZE Growth by Building Sector

Growth by Building Ownership

Fig 9. ZE Veriﬁed and ZE Emerging projects by ownership. Projects with

missing ownership data are excluded

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Zero energy buildings are appearing in every sector, led by residential. The Net-

Zero Energy Coalition (NZEC), which published its 2016 inventory of ZE housing

projects in June 2017

, identiﬁed more than 8,000 housing units across the United

States and Canada—33% more than the previous year. The number of projects

increased even more, by 82%. Both numbers are clear market indicators that

momentum is steadily building in residential ZE. Given the increasing number and

power of market and policy drivers pushing for more ZE homes, this growth will

likely continue in the coming years.

Multi-unit housing projects are responsible for 94% of all units identiﬁed by NZEC

in 2016. The majority (61%) of those are in multifamily buildings, and 39% are in

single-family developments. The average multi-unit single-family project has 33

units; the average multifamily project has 46 units. The largest multi-unit project is

the University of California Davis’ West Village.

A few market-leading builders are responsible for much of the growth in ZE

homes. The top 10 builders and developers identiﬁed in the 2016 NZEC Inventory

are collectively responsible for 3,731 units—45% of all housing units inventoried.

These builders report that zero energy is a powerful differentiator in a crowded

market. For these leading companies, making the shift to zero has been more

proﬁtable, sustainable, and rewarding for their businesses and their customers.

8 This information published with permission from NZEC based on their “To Zero and Beyond: 2016 Residential

Zero Energy Buildings Study.” http://netzeroenergycoalition.com/2016-zero-energy-inventory/

“Zero energy has done

more to deﬁne our

brand than any other

strategy we have used.

Various programs that

incrementally reduce

energy consumption

lack the impact of zero

energy. We call it the

Power of Zero.”

- Gene Myers, CEO of Thrive Home Builders

RESIDENTIAL ZERO ENERGY BUILDINGS

Multi-unit projects

PROJECT TYPE BY UNITS

2,960 4,727 741 4,077 8,203

single-family

units

multi-family

units

projects buildings units

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California, Oregon, New York, Arizona, Massachusetts. These ﬁve states are leading

in the number of zero energy projects across the country with California inarguably

holding the highest penetration of ZE Veriﬁed and Emerging projects by nearly 10-

fold. So what do these top ﬁve states all have in common? Zero energy policies,

either statewide, by county, or by municipality, that are sending distinct market signals

necessary to drive goal setting and investment around ZE projects. Many of them

also have strong energy efﬁciency programs supporting adoption of zero energy

goals with technical assistance and ﬁnancial incentives.

In Oregon, which takes second place on the List, the Energy Trust of Oregon has

been running its Path to Zero Program for several years, nurturing the market

for ZE buildings. That outcome is reﬂected in a growing number of Emerging

projects—up by 50% from the last Zero Energy Buildings List. A recent Executive

Order from Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown builds on this progress stating: It is

the policy of the State of Oregon to establish an aggressive timeline to achieve net

zero ready buildings as a standard practice.

Beyond the states leading with ZE projects, NBI’s Library

of Advanced Codes and Policies catalogues over 135 local

governments across U.S. and Canada that have adopted

a policy that puts them on the path to zero energy. That

increase is more than double over the last 18 months,

indicating that many cities and states are eager to implement

policies that support ultra-low and ZE performance,

and many already have. Given the withdrawal of federal

leadership on climate action, local governments have

emerged as the standard bearers in the battle against climate change resulting in

new and aggressive carbon reduction goals with special emphasis on buildings.

Buildings are responsible for roughly 40% of CO

emissions in the United States

and as much as 80% in cities.

Local jurisdictions that are serious about cutting

carbon understand that the local building stock must be addressed, and zero energy

buildings have captured policymakers’ attention as a mechanism to get there.

While each locality is at a different

starting point with different resources

and stakeholder mix, they all are

positioned to take the ﬁrst step for

getting to zero. In order to help other

interested jurisdictions learn from a

growing list of ZE policies, NBI created

a ZE Resource Hub to share the

most impactful policies and programs

from around the country. The Hub can

be found at: gettingtozeroforum.org/zero-energy-resources/

POLICY

DIRECTIVES

AND PROGRAM

SUPPORT:

TAKING ZERO

ENERGY

TO SCALE

State zEPI Jurisdictional

Score

ZE Emerging ZE Veriﬁed

CA 51.7 192 22

OR 59.5 22 2

NY 55.7 13 4

AZ 65.7 15 1

MA 51.7 13 2

GETTING TO

RESOURCE

HUB

zero

9 US Energy Information Administration, https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=86&t=1

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Setting a Vision for Energy Codes at Zero

Energy codes are a crucial policy lever driving high efﬁciencies in new construction

projects. Some jurisdictions are employing stretch codes as a means to set a

vision for zero energy codes by a date in the future and then plan incremental

efﬁciency increases for the intervening code cycles. Jurisdictions accelerating

energy code advancement for climate goals have met less resistance than

assumed. Building developers and product manufacturers understand that

policies need to change and stretch codes give them a clear view of energy

efﬁcient building trends that will be used in future codes.

British Columbia (BC) is one such jurisdiction and has claimed that by 2032 the

province will work to achieve zero energy-ready status in all new construction.

By 2020, BC seeks to reduce the expected increase in electricity demand by

66% and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 33% below 2007 levels (80% by

2050). To help realize these goals, BC in April 2017 published the BC Energy Step

Code, an incremental stretch code which will ultimately lead the province to zero

energy construction. Jurisdictions within British Columbia may elect to replace the

performance section of the Building Code with the Energy Step Code.

zEPI Jurisdictional Scores Act as a Sign Post

To help states that are utilizing energy codes to achieve energy and climate action

goals understand and track progress, NBI has developed zEPI Jurisdictional Scores,

which rank states based on their adopted energy policy. The scores take into

account statewide energy codes, local stretch codes, and other factors. Ranging

from zero to 100 where “0” is the goal, the scores are based on the Zero Energy

Performance Index (zEPI) scale, originally developed by NBI Fellow Charles Eley. The

zEPI Jurisdictional Scores

allow states to see where

they currently stand on the

trajectory to zero and set

milestones for achieving

progress (see more on zEPI

on page 18). Beginning next

year, the American Council

for an Energy-Efﬁcient

Economy (ACEEE) will

use the zEPI Jurisdictional

Score as the key criterion for

scoring state building codes

in their much anticipated

ACEEE State Energy

Efﬁciency Scorecard in an

effort to more accurately

assess the levels of savings

achieved by each state’s

adopted building energy

codes.

Fig 11. NBI has developed zEPI Jurisdictional Scores, which rank states based on their adopted energy policy.

2017 zEPI Jurisdictional Scores

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Green building certiﬁcation programs provide conﬁdence that a building is

really walking the walk when it comes to environmentally conscious design and

operation. As zero energy buildings come into the mainstream, certiﬁcation by a

trusted third-party organization is increasingly important to show that a building’s

zero energy design and performance are real. NBI has teamed up with the

International Living Future Institute (ILFI) to more directly connect the Getting to

Zero List and ILFI Zero Energy Certiﬁcation through a uniﬁed zero energy platform.

In the residential sector, NBI has teamed up with the Residential Energy Services

Network (RESNET) to bring the beneﬁts of ZE certiﬁcation to homes around

the country.

NBI + ILFI:

In May of 2016, ILFI and NBI announced a collaborative partnership to simplify and

scale up the growth of certiﬁed ZE buildings based on actual measured energy

performance. This partnership builds on the strengths of each organization. The

new, streamlined process will provide the buildings industry—design teams, owners,

operators and others—with needed clarity on the standards for ZE performance

using data-driven outcomes for validation. Data requirements for this operational

rating have been substantially simpliﬁed and aligned with the Getting to Zero

Buildings Database. The end result will be one seamless system for tracking,

registering, certifying, and evaluating the ZE buildings of today and tomorrow. While

elements of the collaboration have been a work in progress, we expect to fully

launch this uniﬁed ZE platform in the ﬁrst half of 2018.

NBI + RESNET:

The Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Index, administered by RESNET, is an

asset rating that measures a home’s energy efﬁciency performance. The HERS

Index is a nationally-recognized standard for inspecting, testing and rating of key

aspects inﬂuencing energy use. There are more than 2 million HERS-rated homes

and over 2,000 certiﬁed HERS raters in the United States. NBI is teaming up with

RESNET to use the HERS Index

as the basis for a zero energy

certiﬁcation for new single-family

homes at the point of sale

. This

new certiﬁcation will enable ZE

Homes to achieve mass-market

scale by leveraging RESNET’s

widely known and trusted HERS

Index. We expect to launch

this certiﬁcation program in

mid-2018.

OPERATIONAL RATINGS

vs.

ASSET RATINGS

Operational Ratings are based

on actual energy usage over

a period of time (12 months in

most cases).

Asset Ratings are based on

building characteristics like

insulation and HVAC systems,

as designed and constructed.

ZERO ENERGY CERTIFICATION:

COLLABORATION AND EXPANSION

10 This certiﬁcation is not related to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Zero Energy Ready Homes program.

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While forced-air distribution systems remain the predominant approach to

heating and cooling in U.S. commercial buildings, radiant systems can provide an

opportunity to contribute signiﬁcant energy savings. This is due to relatively small

temperature differences between the room set-point and cooling/heating source,

and the efﬁciency of using water rather than air for thermal distribution. A common

strategy across ZE buildings, radiant systems typically utilize a Dedicated Outdoor

Air System (DOAS) to meet ventilation needs. Radiant heating systems are not

unusual in high performance buildings, but using radiant systems for both heating

and cooling is rarely done. A new study investigates this approach.

In 2016-17, NBI worked with the Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley

to study the Energy Performance of Commercial Buildings with Radiant Cooling

and Heating

. This study focused on high thermal mass radiant systems—

Thermally Activated Building Systems (TABS) with radiant tubing is embedded

in a structural slab. Also included were Embedded Surface

Systems (ESS) with tubing embedded in topping slabs and

ceiling panel systems where the piping is located in metal

panels suspended from the ceiling.

Our research team obtained building design characteristics

and energy use from 23 commercial buildings across seven

climate zones using radiant as the predominant method to

cool and heat the occupied space. The research, which was

funded by a Californian Energy Commission EPIC grant, found

that the set of studied buildings signiﬁcantly outperformed

peer buildings and national benchmarks.

Although a radiant system is not the sole driver of high-

performance, it is a valuable option for achieving low-energy

outcomes. Selecting a radiant system usually means limiting

the overall design cooling load because there are physical

limitations to how much cooling a radiant system can achieve.

This translates to a better envelope, lower lighting loads,

and efforts to reduce plug loads which in turn reduce overall

building energy consumption.

Alongside the report, nine individual building case studies

were

published, which further detail the technologies used in the

buildings as well as the energy performance and occupant comfort results.

11 Full report: https://newbuildings.org/resource/energy-performance-of-commercial-buildings-with-radiant-heat-

ing-and-cooling/

Radiant Cooling and Heating Systems

Fig 12. This boxplot compares the interquartile

energy performance of the research set alongside

a comparable subset of buildings from CBECS,

the building performance database (BPD), and

NBI’s ZE Veriﬁed Buildings List. The radiant build-

ings included in the study used approximately

30% less energy than national benchmark values.

The Port of Portland building in Portland, OR

was one of the buildings studied in NBI’s recent

radiant technology research project

technology spotlight

and case study

Energy Performance of Radiant-Conditioned

Buildings

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Radiant Cooling and Heating Systems

Fig 13. The ODOT building outperforms various national and state-level benchmarks. The building uses

slightly more than half the energy of its code baseline.

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) headquarters is a ﬁve-story,

147,000-square-foot (sf) ofﬁce building housing 460 employees. The headquarters

is a retroﬁt of a 1950s-era building and features hydronic radiant systems,

photovoltaic panels, rainwater harvesting, waste water treatment, and ground-

source heat pumps. These technologies enabled the building to achieve LEED

Platinum certiﬁcation in 2012.

renovation project reorganized ODOT’s workspaces, providing the employees with

improved daylight, indoor air quality, and collaboration spaces while optimizing the

HVAC systems to ensure energy efﬁciency.

Building Energy Use

The ODOT building has a whole-

building site EUI of just 36 kBtu/sf. This

is 44% to 56% less than the average

ofﬁce EUI performance of national,

regional, and state peers. While those

datasets include a mix of construction

ages, ODOT’s building energy use is

also 10% lower than ASHRAE’s best-

practice energy efﬁciency Standard

100 targets.

Radiant cooling and heating systems

were a major piece of the design

strategy enabling this building to

achieve low-energy success.

ZE Case Study: Radiant System at the Oregon Department of Transportation Building

Nine radiant systems case studies are

available on the NBI website at:

newbuildings.org/case-studies/

Energy Performance of ODOT Building vs. Benchmarks

2018 Getting to Zero Status Update and List of Zero Energy Projects

The 2018 Getting to Zero Status Update and List of Zero Energy Projects brings a

spotlight to an impressive and growing diversity of projects, practitioners and owners

striving for the best in design, operations, and occupant beneﬁts. Their low-energy

outcomes and targets reﬂect what can be done in today’s market and we expect

more innovation ahead. The policy trends show a leap from regulatory methods

pushing from the bottom of the pack to examples of leading codes and policies

requiring the top end of what’s possible. Here is a summary of noteworthy and

hopeful areas.

Growth in projects, size and type. Tracking of commercial buildings reﬂects a

700% increase in ZE buildings in six years with sizes more reﬂective of the general

marketplace. As designers become more capable of achieving ZE outcomes, building

sizes are getting larger with over 40% of the projects and 88% of the ﬂoor space in

ZE Emerging buildings over 50,000 sf. Nearly every use type including high energy

sectors like retail, hospitals, and light industrial are represented, but 72% of the

projects fall into three types: 1) education (36%); 2) ofﬁces (20%); and 3) multifamily

(16%).

In the residential sector, over 8,000 housing units in 4,077 buildings and 741 projects

are targeting zero energy. Of those, 61% of units are in multifamily projects and 39% in

single-family with production builders leading the growth with the top 10 builders in the

residential inventory responsible for 45% of the units.

Private sector invests, districts emerge. ZE is ﬁnding favor with the private

sector with nearly 26% of the full List representing for-proﬁt private sector buildings

and overall private ownership now at 46%. Home production builders say ZE

residential projects have been “proﬁtable, sustainable, and rewarding for their

businesses and their customers.” The communities and commercial districts are

increasing and carving a critical path to scale ZE developments.

Feasibility remains strong. As we achieve high numbers of projects to analyze we

are more able to set targets for energy performance of building types and in climate

zones. Current examples show an impressive proof of performance with Veriﬁed

energy use of just 18 kBtu/sf—46% less than the most stringent new construction

energy codes in the U.S. Location is not a barrier as there are ZE buildings in every

U.S. and Canadan climate zone and almost every U.S. state.

Experience and expertise grows. The ZE corps is expanding with over 70

distinct mechanical and engineering companies and 140 architectural companies

involved in these projects. As interest and awareness of ZE rises, the design

communities’ ability to deliver must keep pace with expanded options for continuing

education for architects, engineers and builders. Trainings and focus on ZE design,

construction and operations within industry conferences continues to grow and

spotlight ZE practices and projects—an encouraging sign.

Policies and programs are a proven driver. While ZE projects are now located

in nearly every state, larger numbers are certainly driven by local policies or programs.

ZE policies, either statewide, by county, or by municipality, are sending distinct market

and public beneﬁts signals necessary to drive goal setting and investment around ZE

projects. Efﬁciency programs are also a strong factor in supporting adoption of zero

energy goals with technical assistance and ﬁnancial incentives.

A NEW HOPE:

ZERO ENERGY

TODAY AND FOR

THE FUTURE

"[ZNE] It's the next level of

ambition"

-Clay Nesler, VP of global energy and

sustainability at Johnson Controls (JC)

12 In reference to 2016 Energy Efﬁciency Indicator

survey with more than 1,200 facility and energy

management executives in the U.S., Brazil, China,

Germany and India

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Continued market development is crucial. This List is at the forefront of

three key factors intersecting to change the built environment as we know it:

1) optimized energy efﬁciency through design, technologies and operational strategies,

2) renewable energy integration at the site, community or portfolio level, and 3) grid

harmonization of the building, energy storage and electric vehicles. These factors are

informing our work to move buildings and policies to zero energy and lower carbon.

It’s a long road ahead and there is much work to be done to achieve our zero energy

future. We at NBI will continue to drive momentum for buildings that reﬂect energy,

environmental and economic goals. Our sights are set on the horizon:

• Carbon. Establish metrics that put the relationship between carbon

and energy use in the spotlight based on actual generation sources at a

building and community level. Connect zero energy buildings to carbon

goals and policies.

• Policies and Programs. Advancing codes, policies and programs that

form the steps to zero energy in the building sector.

• Practitioners. Support practitioners’ abilities and resources to advocate

and create ZE buildings with clients and deliver successful projects.

• Proof. Continue to expand the ‘proof of the possible’ through tracking

and disseminating a growing List of ever-wider types of ZE buildings,

community approaches and case studies.

• Markets. Work on target markets that help swing the majority such as

cities, schools, and multifamily.

For a century, electricity has ﬂowed only one way: from the power plant to the building.

This long-established paradigm is changing fast as distributed renewables and ZE

buildings come online across U.S. and Canada. Already, some grid operators are

struggling to integrate renewable energy onto the grid.

At the building level there is a lack of knowledge and incentive to encourage grid-

friendly design and operation. Across U.S. and Canada there are no metrics that

deﬁne building-level grid citizenship or rate building-grid interaction quality. Current

thinking on the topic is fragmented and different players are using different language to

discuss the topic from a variety of perspectives.

NBI and USGBC are launching the GridOptimal Initiative to provide standards,

tools, and guidance to improve building-grid interactions in the built environment

by empowering owners, architects, and engineers with a dedicated building rating

system and certiﬁcation protocol.

By creating a standardized metric that deﬁnes a building’s operational performance as a grid asset, many doors open. Utilities can

incentivize grid-sensitive design. Government agencies can include the metric in their procurement requirements or other policies.

Designers, owners, and operators can consider grid impacts with a sensible, straightforward approach. Future building codes can

begin to encourage the adoption of these solutions and help ensure that new buildings coming online will be good grid citizens.

The GridOptimal Initiative will play a major role in bridging the gap in knowledge, understanding, and priorities across the meter,

including both grid operators and electricity consumers. We welcome your insights and support. To ﬁnd out more, please visit:

www.newbuildings.org/gridoptimal.

Grid Harmonization: Buildings, Energy Storage,

and Electric Vehicles

Storage

and Grid

Harmonization

Zero

Energy

Building

Energy Efficiency

Optimization

Renewable

Energy

Generation

BEYOND THE METER: BUILDING-GRID

INTERACTIONS IN THE AGE OF ZERO ENERGY

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zEPI: A Simple, Versatile Scale for Measuring Commercial Building

Energy Performance

The Zero Energy Performance Index (zEPI) scale represents a fundamental shift

in measurement of building efﬁciency. zEPI sets energy targets for actual energy

consumption rather than using a predictive energy model of building energy

performance to calculate a “percent better than code” metric.

zEPI is calculated using a building’s EUI and is adjusted based on building type

and climate. zEPI is also the measure by which a building’s energy efﬁciency is

calculated once operational and occupied based on measured energy use data.

zEPI was created to address confusion caused by comparing the energy efﬁciency

of buildings by referencing their “percent savings beyond code.” Which code?

What year? Given there have been at least six major commercial energy codes on

the books at any given time in the United States since 2000, identifying the correct

baseline can take some time.

zEPI sets a constant goal of zero

energy and shifts the conversation

from percent better than code to an

index leading to zero, which is the

kind of market shift that is required

for buildings to achieve wide-scale

zero energy and exemplary energy

performance. One noteworthy function

of the zEPI scale is that it allows key

energy milestones including individual

project consumption and energy

policies to all be represented on one scale. It permits direct comparisons in order

to understand the relative performance of each of these elements in measurement

of energy performance.

Since 2016, NBI has

included building

zEPI Scores in the

Getting to Zero

Buildings List. The

zEPI score is a simple

metric measuring a

building’s progress

toward zero energy.

100 80 60 40 20 -20

100

Score

FF-EUI

BASELINE

100 80 60 40 20 -20

100

Score

FF-EUI

BASELINE

Zero Energy Performance Index (zEPI) scale

THE ZERO ENERGY PERFORMANCE INDEX

The ZE Certiﬁed Hood River Middle School

Music and Science Building in Hood River,

OR, has a zEPI Score of 0.

Photo Credit: Michael Mathers

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Deﬁnitions

Zero Energy (ZE) projects are buildings, or groups of buildings,

with greatly reduced energy loads such that, totaled over a year,

100% or more of the energy use can be met with renewable energy

generation. In this List, projects are categorized as ZE Certiﬁed, ZE

Veriﬁed, or ZE Emerging.

Zero Energy Certiﬁed projects have been awarded Zero Energy,

Net Zero Energy, Living Building, or Energy Petal certiﬁcation

by ILFI. ILFI has thoroughly reviewed one continuous year of

energy consumption and generation data to certify zero energy

performance. NBI and ILFI are collaborating to launch a new ZE

platform in 2018, including a combined data portal, certiﬁcation

program, and interactive ZE project database.

Zero Energy Veriﬁed projects have achieved ZE for at least one full

year and NBI has Veriﬁed the performance data.

Zero Energy Emerging buildings have publicly stated a goal of

reaching ZE but have not yet demonstrated achievement of that

goal. These buildings may be in the planning or design phase,

under construction, or have been in operation for less than twelve

months. Others may have been operating for at least a year, but their

measured energy use data either has yet to achieve ZE, or the data

to document ZE performance was not available.

(L) after the project name indicates a project has achieved USGBC

LEED certiﬁcation (at any level).

We know there are

more projects than we

have captured here. We

encourage you to submit ZE

and ULE projects through

our registry so we can

recognize these leaders in

the growing ﬁeld of zero

energy buildings.

Be Counted at

newbuildings.org/share.

Getting to Zero

List of Zero Energy Projects

The 482 trailblazing projects listed here are proof positive that zero energy design

and operation is feasible in every climate, market sector, size, and building type

across U.S. and Canada. In the six years since NBI produced the ﬁrst Getting

to Zero List in 2012, the number of ZE projects has increased more than 700%.

More and more designers, owners, and occupants are gaining valuable ZE

experience and expertise, and new projects are appearing regularly. Projects are

listed alphabetically and grouped by year completed or projected for completion.

New information is included in the 2018 Getting to Zero List about project

certiﬁcation. Projects that have achieved Zero Energy Certiﬁcation from ILFI are

listed in the ZE Certiﬁed buildings category. For the ﬁrst time, this List also shows

information about the LEED status of ZE projects.

(M) after the project name indicates a project that has provided

measured energy use data.

Site EUI stands for the total gross site-level Energy Use Intensity, a

metric used to measure annual energy use per square foot of building

space. Energy use includes consumption from all fuels (grid-delivered

and onsite-generated electricity, natural gas, district energy, and

delivered fuels) in thousands of British Thermal Units (kBtu) per year.

That sum is divided by the building size in gross square feet, thus the

units are kBtu/sf/year.

Source EUI accounts for upstream generation, transmission, and

distribution losses associated with delivering usable energy to the site.

RPI stands for Renewable Production Intensity, a metric used to

deﬁne annual renewable energy generation per square foot. This is

the onsite renewable analogue to EUI. This is shown in both site and

source, just like EUI.

Net EUI is simply EUI minus RPI. A building with a measured net EUI

(site or source) less than zero has achieved ZE. Some buildings in the

ZE Emerging category show a negative net EUI based on modeled or

estimated data.

zEPI is metric on a 0-100 scale that sets a constant goal of ZE and is

normalized by climate and building type. For more information about

zEPI, see page 18.

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YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2007

IDeAs Z2 Design Facility (M) San Jose CA Ofﬁce 6,557 22.6 71.2 23.2 73.0 -0.6 -1.8 -1

2009

Chrisney Library (M) Chrisney IN Public Assembly 2,413 16.7 52.6 17.4 55.0 -0.8 -2.4 -1

Living Learning Center at Tyson

Research Center (M)

Eureka MO Education 2,968 24.5 77.1 26.4 83.2 -1.9 -6.1 -2

Omega Center for Sustainable Living

(M) Rhinebeck NY Other 6,200 13.2 41.6 21.5 67.6 -8.3 -26.0 -7

Pringle Creek Painter's Hall

(M) Salem OR Public Assembly 3,595 11.1 35.0 15.4 48.4 -4.3 -13.4 -5

Putney Field House

(M) Putney VT Education 16,800 9.7 30.6 10.4 32.9 -0.7 -2.3 -1

2010

Bertschi School Science Wing

(M) Seattle WA Education 1,425 48.0 151.2 48.4 152.5 -0.4 -1.3 0

DPR Construction San Diego Net Zero

Ofﬁce

(M)

San Diego CA Ofﬁce 24,000 14.8 46.1 17.1 53.9 -2.4 -7.8 -3

Energy Lab at Hawaii Preparatory

Academy

(M)

Kamuela HI Education 5,902 11.0 34.8 28.0 88.2 -17.0 -53.4 -15

Hood River Middle School Net-Zero

Addition

(M)

Hood River OR Education 5,331 26.8 84.3 27.1 85.4 -0.4 -1.1 0

Richardsville Elementary School

(M) Bowling Green KY Education 72,285 19.0 59.9 21.6 68.0 -2.6 -8.1 -3

2011

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Bosarge Family Education Center

(M)

Boothbay ME Education 8,200 19.2 60.3 23.5 73.9 -4.3 -13.6 -4

Locust Trace AgriScience Campus

(High School) (M)

Lexington KY Education 70,000 9.9 31.0 10.6 33.3 -0.7 -2.3 -1

TD Bank Branch - Ft. Lauderdale

(M) Fort Lauderdale FL Ofﬁce 3,970 91.8 289.3 95.6 301.1 -3.8 -11.8 -4

zHome - Issaquah (M) Issaquah WA Multifamily 5,813 21.0 66.2 22.0 69.3 -1.0 -3.1 -2

2012

Bullitt Foundation Cascadia Center for

Sustainable Design and Construction (M)

Seattle WA Ofﬁce 51,800 9.7 30.6 16.6 52.4 -6.9 -21.8 -10

David and Lucile Packard Foundation

(M) Los Altos CA Ofﬁce 49,161 24.4 76.8 29.0 91.4 -4.6 -14.6 -7

DPR Construction Phoenix Net Zero

Ofﬁce

(M)

Phoenix AZ Ofﬁce 16,533 26.8 84.3 29.5 92.9 -2.7 -8.6 -3

Phipps Center for Sustainable

Landscapes

(M)

Pittsburgh PA

Public

Assembly

24,350 18.2 57.3 18.7 58.8 -0.5 -1.5 0

Sacred Heart Schools Stevens Family

Library

(M)

Atherton CA Education 6,800 13.2 41.6 30.8 97.0 -17.6 -55.4 -22

Smith College Bechtel

Environmental Classroom (M)

Northampton MA Education 2,500 11.5 36.1 17.6 55.6 -6.2 -19.5 -6

2013

435 Indio Ave (M)

Sunnyvale CA Ofﬁce 31,800 13.5 42.5 28.7 90.2 -15.2 -47.7 -23

PNC Net-Zero Branch

(M) Ft Lauderdale FL

Mercantile

(Enclosed and

Strip Malls)

4,766 59.1 186.0 64.4 203.0 -5.4 -17.0 -5

Sandy Grove Middle School

(M) Lumber Bridge NC Education 74,000 20.6 64.9 35.7 112.6 -15.1 -47.7 -15

West Berkeley Public Library

(M) Berkeley CA Public Assembly 9,399 21.7 68.3 25.5 80.4 -3.8 -12.1 -5

2014

Brock Environmental Center

(M) Virginia Beach VA Education 10,500 14.6 45.9 28.6 90.1 -14.0 -44.2 -14

DPR San Francisco Ofﬁce

(M) San Francisco CA Ofﬁce 24,010 21.6 68.0 22.1 69.6 -0.5 -1.6 -1

Willow School

(M) Gladstone NJ Education 20,000 21.8 68.8 35.0 110.2 -13.1 -41.4 -12

2015

Phipps Conservatory SEED Classroom

(M)

Pittsburgh PA Education 950 14.5 45.8 20.8 65.6 -6.3 -19.8 -6

Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation

Center

(M)

Basalt CO Ofﬁce 15,610 16.8 52.9 26.2 82.7 -9.4 -29.8 -12

Suncoast Credit Union - Bushnell

Service Center (M)

Bushnell FL Ofﬁce 3,743 6.8 21.4 8.4 26.5 -1.6 -5.1 -12

2016

Maclay Architects' Ofﬁce (M) Waitsﬁeld VT Ofﬁce 2,568 22.1 69.5 25.0 78.6 -2.9 -9.1 -2

Building names in Bold are new to the List

Buildings with (M) indicate measured data

(L) indicates LEED Certiﬁcation

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zero energy verified

YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2000

Oberlin College Lewis Center (M) Oberlin OH Education 13,600 31.4 98.8 36.9 116.2 -5.5 -17.4 -5

2001

Environmental Tech. Center Sonoma

State (M)

Rohnert Park CA Education 2,200 2.3 7.3 3.8 11.9 -1.5 -4.6 -2

2003

Audubon Center at Debs Park

(off grid) (M) Los Angeles CA Other 5,020 17.1 53.9 17.1 53.9 0.0 0.0 0

Science House (M) St. Paul MN Other 1,532 18.0 56.7 18.0 56.7 0.0 0.0 0

2004

Challengers Tennis Club (M) Los Angeles CA Other 3,500 9.0 28.1 9.0 28.4 0.0 -0.3 0

2005

Hawaii Gateway Energy Center

(M) Kailua-Kona HI Other 5,600 28.0 88.2 31.0 97.7 -3.0 -9.5 -4

2007

Aldo Leopold Legacy Center

(M) Baraboo WI Ofﬁce 11,900 16.0 50.4 18.0 56.7 -2.0 -6.3 -2

2008

Bagatelos Architectural Glass Solutions (M)

Sacramento CA Other 63,000 17.1 53.9 17.5 55.1 -0.4 -1.2 0

Camden Friends Meeting Social Hall

(M) Camden DE Public Assembly 3,121 17.9 56.3 19.7 62.0 -1.8 -5.7 -2

Environmental Nature Center

(M) Newport Beach CA Education 8,535 17.6 55.4 27.7 87.3 -10.1 -31.9 -12

Hudson Valley Clean Energy HQ (M) Rhinebeck NY Other 5,470 9.8 30.7 10.4 32.6 -0.6 -1.9 -1

2009

Bacon St. Ofﬁces

(M) San Diego CA Ofﬁce 4,500 12.7 40.0 22.2 69.9 -9.5 -29.9 -13

Watsonville Water Resources Center

Admin Building

(M)

Watsonville CA Ofﬁce 16,000 51.4 160.4 117.8 371.1 -66.4 -210.7 -101

2010

Dovetail Construction HQ Barn

(M) Richmond VA Ofﬁce 6,800 0.0 0

NREL Research Support Facility

(M) Golden CO Ofﬁce 2 22,000 46.1 145.2 46.1 145.2 0.0 0.0 0

2011

Anna Maria Historic Green Village

(M) Anna Maria FL Other 9,797 28.2 88.8 34.8 109.6 -6.6 -20.8 -7

Diamond X Ranch Student Intern

Center-Malibu (M)

Calabasas CA Public Assembly 3,500 31.5 99.3 35.1 110.5 -3.6 -11.2 -4

EcoCenter at Heron's Head Park (off grid)

(M) San Francisco CA Education 2,400

2012

Leon County Cooperative Extension (M) Tallahassee FL Ofﬁce 13,000 19.4 61.1 19.6 61.7 -0.2 -0.6 0

Plaza Point

(M)

Arcata CA Multifamily 20,283 15.3 48.2 16.3 51.4 -1.0 -3.2 -2

2013

IBEW Local 595 Zero Net Energy Center (M) San Leandro CA Education 45,001 15.0 47.3 21.0 66.2 -6.0 -18.9 -7

Lenawee Intermediate School District

Center for a Sustainable Future (M)

Adrian

Township

MI Education 8,750 7.7 24.3 10.1 31.8 -2.4 -7.5 -2

2014

231 Main Street (Alfandre Architecture,

EcoBuilders, and Others)

(M)

New Paltz NY Ofﬁce 5,400 45.2 142.1 52.6 165.8 -7.5 -23.7 -9

DMV Fresno Field Ofﬁce

(M) Fresno CA Ofﬁce 19,808 23.1 72.7 43.4 136.8 -20.4 -64.1 -28

Jess Jackson Sustainable Winery Building

(M)

Davis CA

Warehouse and

Storage

8,500 1.4 4.4 2.7 8.5 -1.3 -4.1 -5

Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge

Administrative Ofﬁce and Visitor Contact

Station (M)

Alamo NV Public Assembly 5,000 27.8 87.7 39.9 125.5 -12.0 -37.8 -12

2015

AP+I Design (M) Mountain View CA Ofﬁce 14,300 17.9 56.3 18.4 57.8 -0.5 -1.5 -1

Bishop O'Dowd High School,

Environmental Science Center

(M)

Oakland CA Education 3,275 18.0 56.5 18.6 58.7 -0.7 -2.2 -1

Discovery Elementary School (M)

Arlington VA Education 98,000 15.5 48.8 19.1 60.2 -3.6 -11.4 -4

Frick Environmental Center (M)

Pittsburgh PA Public Assembly 15,500 -2.1 -2

P.S. 62 (Kathleen Grimm School of

Leadership and Sustainability) (M)

Staten Island NY Education 68,680 32.9 103.7 33.9 106.7 -0.9 -3.0 -1

Potomac Watershed Center

(M)

Accokeek MD Education 3,971 44.2 139.4 46.0 144.8 -1.7 -5.4 -2

Sarasota Audubon Nature Center

(M)

Sarasota FL Education 2,500 10.3 32.4 15.6 49.1 -5.3 -16.7 -5

2016

Sbrega Technology and Learning

Center - Bristol Community College (M)

Fall River MA Education 50,679 45.0 116.2 60.9 191.8 -15.9 -75.6 -15

Twenty Mile Farm Administration and

Maintenance Building

(M)

Boise ID Ofﬁce 15,222 11.3 35.6 18.6 58.6 -7.3 -23.0 -10

Building names in Bold are new to the List

Buildings with (M) indicate measured data

(L) indicates LEED Certiﬁcation

2018 Getting to Zero Status Update and List of Zero Energy Projects

zero energy emerging

YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2002

NREL Wind Site Entrance Building (SEB) Golden CO Other 160 70.3 221.3 24.0 75.7 46.2 145.6 45

2003

Woods Hole Research Center

(M) Falmouth MA Ofﬁce 19,200 16.0 50.4 5.0 15.8 11.0 34.6 13

2004

Westmont High School Science

Education Facility (M)

Campbell CA Education 12,362 44.4 140.0 0.0 0.0 44.4 140.0 55

2005

CDPH Richmond Labs, Building P

Richmond CA Ofﬁce 205,153

Delmar High School Science

Education Facility

San Jose CA Education

Melink Corporation Headquarters

(M) Milford OH Ofﬁce 30,000 12.2 38.3 5.4 16.9 6.8 21.4 9

2006

Prospect Sierra Founders Art Center El Cerrito CA Education 5,000

2007

Montenay Ofﬁce Building

Burnaby BC Ofﬁce

Prairie Hill Learning Center Roca NE Education 2,940

Regent College Library

Vancouver BC Public Assembly

2008

Akron Zoo

Akron OH Public Assembly

Aquarium of the Paciﬁc Watershed

Addition

Long Beach CA Education 2,500

City of Hayward Water Pollution

Control Facility

Hayward CA Other

Mills River Elementary School

(M) Mills River NC Education 80,820 30.4 95.8 0.0 0.0 30.4 95.8 30

2009

da Vinci School High Performance

Classroom

(M)

Portland OR Education 1,485 27.1 85.4 25.0 78.8 2.1 6.6 2

Design Engineer Headquarters

Cedar Rapids IA Ofﬁce 15,747

Millennium Water (Southeast False

Creek Olympic Village)

Vancouver BC Multifamily

Oak Ridge National Lab Ofﬁce Building

3156

Oak Ridge TN Ofﬁce 6,900

2010

Bagley Classroom University of

Minnesota Duluth

Duluth MN Education 2,000

Center for Energy Efﬁcient Design

Rocky Mount VA Education 3,600

Charlotte-Douglas Airport - Fire Rescue

and Fire Facility

Charlotte NC

Public Order and

Safety

Clif Bar Headquarters

Emeryville CA Ofﬁce 23.0 72.4

Evie Garrett Dennis E12 Campus (Denver

Schools)

(M)

Denver CO Education 184,769 99.0 311.9 71.0 223.7 28.0 88.2 29

Green Phoenix Learning Center Phoenix AZ Education

Greensburg Kansas Net Zero Community

Greensburg KS Multifamily

Harmony House for Cats

(M) Chicago IL Other 7,095 50.0 157.5 50.0 43

Lowell Trial Court Lowell MA Other 245,000

Magnify Credit Union

(M) Lakeland FL

Mercantile

(Enclosed and

Strip Malls)

4,151 75.0 236.3 68.0 214.2 7.0 22.1 7

MEC Aviation Campus (M) Glendale AZ Education 85,000 99.0 311.9 69.0 217.4 30.0 94.5 31

New Bristow Elementary School

(M) Bowling Green KY Education 79,817 23.8 75.0 0.0 0.0 23.8 75.0 23

New Century Elementary School Fayetteville NC Education 109,758

Palmetto Bay Municipal Center

Palmetto Bay FL Ofﬁce 25,000

The Andrew New York City NY Multifamily

Turkey Foot Middle School (M) Edgewood KY Education 133,000 22.0 69.2 11.0 34.7 11.0 34.5 11

Building names in Bold are new to the List

Buildings with (M) indicate measured data

(L) indicates LEED Certiﬁcation

new buildings institute

YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2011

Broadway High School

San Jose CA Education

Butte Glenn Community College Oroville CA Education

800,000

38.9 122.6 27.2 85.7 11.7 36.9 13

Centre for Interactive Research on

Sustainability (CIRS)

Vancouver BC Education 76,223

Desert Research Institute Renewable

Energy Experimental Facility

Reno NV Other 1,400

Eastside Fire & Rescue Station 72

Issaquah WA

Public Order and

Safety

11,400

EcoFlats Building Portland OR Multifamily 19,860

Frito-Lay Casa Grande Snack Factory

Casa Grande AZ Other

188,000

George V Leyva Middle School Admin Bldg San Jose CA Ofﬁce 9,200 34.0 107.1 25.0 78.8 9.0 28.3 14

Glenn York Elementary School Pearland TX Education 96,297

Highland Chevron ExtraMile Gas Station Beaverton OR

Mercantile (Retail

Other than Mall)

6,000

June Key Delta Community Center Portland OR Public Assembly 1,631

Lady Bird Johnson Middle School Irving TX Education

152,000

McCormick Spice Net Zero Warehouse (M) Belcamp MD

Warehouse and

Storage

369,000

38.3 120.6 20.0 63.0 18.3 57.6 50

Mokelumne Watershed Headquarters (M) Campo Seco CA Ofﬁce 5,675 10.4 32.8 9.8 30.9 0.6 1.9 1

Mutual Housing at the Highlands Sacramento CA Multifamily

NASA Propellants Facility at Kennedy

Space Center

(M)

Titusville FL Ofﬁce 9,540 43.6 137.3 34.0 107.1 9.6 30.2 12

Nazlini Community School Fire Station

Nazlini AZ

Public Order and

Safety

1,900

Parris Island Child Development Center Parris Island SC Other 25,775 58.0 182.6 58.0 182.6 0.0 0.0 0

Pierce College Maintenance & Operations

Facility and Net-Zero Central Plant

(M)

Los Angeles CA Education 42,000 16.0 50.4 8.0 25.2 8.0 25.2 9

Portland Community College Newberg

Center

Newberg OR Education 13,000

Redding School for the Arts

(M) Redding CA Education 77,091 16.0 50.4 8.0 25.2 8.0 25.2 9

Rice Fergus Miller Ofﬁce & Studio

(M) Bremerton WA Ofﬁce 39,000 21.0 66.2 3.0 9.5 18.0 56.7 25

San Ysidro Land Port of Entry

San Diego CA Other 200,000

Sangre de Cristo PK-12 School

(M) Mosca CO Education 8,000 26.0 81.9 0.0 0.0 26.0 81.9 25

VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor

Centre

Vancouver BC Public Assembly 19,000 35.2 110.9 10.2 32.1 25.0 78.8 27

West Irving Library

Irving TX Public Assembly 25,876

Wilson Air Center - Chattanooga Airport -

West Side Aviation Development

Chattanooga TN Other 9,015

2012

Abondance - Montreal Multi-Family Net

Zero

Montreal QC Multifamily 3,048

Aster Place Eureka CA Multifamily

Blanchet House of Hospitality

Portland OR Multifamily 35,000 22.0 69.3

Clos du Bois Winery Sonoma CA Ofﬁce

Colonel Smith Middle School Fort Huachuca AZ Education 88,693

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Agoura Hills CA Ofﬁce 22,240 22.0 69.3 24.0 75.6 -2.0 -6.3 -3

Fireside Elementary (M) Phoenix AZ Education 88,664 51.0 160.7 41.1 129.5 9.9 31.2 10

zero energy emerging

Building names in Bold are new to the List

Buildings with (M) indicate measured data

(L) indicates LEED Certiﬁcation

2018 Getting to Zero Status Update and List of Zero Energy Projects

YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2012

Franklin Regional Transit Center Greenﬁeld MA Other 24,000

High Tech Middle North County

San Diego CA Education 27,058

Jody Richards Elementary School (M) Bowling Green KY Education 80,904 20.0 63.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 63.0 20

Kaupuni Village Aiea HI Multifamily

Kohler Environmental Center

Wallingford CT Education 31,325

La Valentina North (M) Sacramento CA Multifamily 19,875 31.0 97.7 6.0 18.9 25.0 78.8 39

Maharishi University of Management

Sustainable Living Center

Fairﬁeld IA Education 6,900 9.9 31.2 10.4 32.8 -0.5 -1.6 0

McGrory Glass Facility Paulsboro NJ

Warehouse and

Storage

108,000

Morphosis Architecture Studio (M) Culver City CA Ofﬁce 11,600 24.0 75.6 20.0 63.0 4.0 12.6 6

North Shore Community College Health

and Student Services Building

Danvers MA Education 58,000

Orangewood Middle School and Studio

Project

Phoenix AZ Education

Paisano Green Community

El Paso TX Multifamily 55,202

Playa Vista Elementary (M)

Los Angeles CA Education 28.3 89.1 20.9 65.8 7.4 23.3 9

Sail Lofts Thomaston ME Multifamily 7,500

San Luis National Wildlife Refuge

Complex HQ and Visitor Ctr.

Los Banos CA Education 16,500

Skaneateles Village Hall

Skaneateles NY Ofﬁce 3,723 47.0 148.1 0.0 0.0 47.0 148.1 57

St Petersburg Net Zero Ofﬁce (Sierra Club)

St Petersburg FL Ofﬁce 5,000

Student Services Center at Mesa College

San Diego CA Education 85,000

Sweetwater Spectrum Community (M) Sonoma CA Multifamily 15,990 9.4 29.6 4.4 13.7 5.1 15.9 9

UC Davis West Village (eco district) Davis CA Education 50.0 157.5 0.0 0.0 50.0 157.5 58

UniverCity Childcare Centre Burnaby BC Service 5,690

Valatie Free Library

Hudson River

Valley

NY Public Assembly 750

Vernonia School

Vernonia OR Education 135,000 35.4 111.6

William S Hart High School District Santa Clarita CA Education

Zero Energy Research Lab at University

of North Texas

Denton TX Education 1,200

2013

64 Catherine Street

Boston MA Multifamily 1,416

Austin Gardens Environmental

Education Center

Oak Park IL Public Assembly 2,100

Beckstoffers Mill Senior Housing Complex Richmond VA Multifamily 8,000

Bennington Superior Court & State Ofﬁce

Building (M)

Bennington VT Ofﬁce 65,000 26.1 31

Blackford School Multi-Use Building San Jose CA Education

Boy Scouts of America The Summit

Bechtel Reserve Treehouse

Glen Jean WV Public Assembly 5,000

Bright 'n Green 'Sandy Resistant' Mixed

Use Project

Brooklyn NY Multifamily

Burr and Burton Academy Mountain

Campus

Peru VT Education

zero energy emerging

Building names in Bold are new to the List

Buildings with (M) indicate measured data

(L) indicates LEED Certiﬁcation

new buildings institute

YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2013

Castlemont Elementary School

Multipurpose Building

Campbell CA Education

Centre of Excellence at Okanagan

College

Kelowna BC Education 61,100

Church Hill Townhomes

Fortuna CA Multifamily

College of the Desert West Valley

Campus - Phase 1

Palm Springs CA Education 50,000 22.0 69.3 24.0 75.6 -2.0 -6.3 -2

Delta Building - NYC Brooklyn NY Other 2,700

Exploratorium Pier 15

(M) San Francisco CA Other

330,000

42.0 132.3 36.0 113.4 6.0 18.9 7

Forest Service's Technology and

Development Center

San Dimas CA Ofﬁce 32,800

Foundry Court by Nexus Homes Philadelphia PA Multifamily

General Aviation Terminal

Appleton WI Other 8,000 13.0 41.0

Green Leaf Inn Delavan WI Lodging

Hollis Montessori School (M)

Hollis NH Education 19,100 11.3 35.6

Keene State College Technology, Design

and Safety Building

Keene NH Education 53,000

Lane Community College, Downtown

Academic Center

(M)

Eugene OR Education 90,000 25.0 78.8 0.0 0.0 25.0 78.8 27

Los Guilicos Correctional Facility (M) Santa Rosa CA

Public Order and

Safety

149,000

23.9 75.3 1.1 3.5 22.8 71.8 28

MetroWest High School

CA Education

OUSD Downtown Educational

Complex

Oakland CA Education

Park Place Missoula MT Other 4,295

Park Slope Brooklyn ZNE Brownstone Brooklyn NY Multifamily 7,000

Rohner Village Fortuna CA Multifamily

Salt Lake City Public Safety Building

(M) Salt Lake City UT

Public Order and

Safety

175,480

70.1 220.9 34.8 109.7 35.3 111.2 34

Sherman Oaks Elementary School

Multiuse Facility

Campbell CA Education

SMUD Net Zero Campus - East

Campus-Operations Center

Sacramento CA Ofﬁce

350,000

Sokol Blosser Winery Tasting Room

Dundee OR

Mercantile (Retail

Other than Mall)

5,700 24.0 75.6 0.0 0.0 24.0 75.6 27

Solterra EcoLuxury Apartments

San Diego CA Multifamily

Taliesin West Net Zero Retroﬁt - Frank

Lloyd Wright

Scottsdale AZ Public Assembly

TD Bank ZNE Branch Prototype

Mississauga ON Service 1,590

UC San Diego J Craig Venter Institute

La Jolla CA Education 40,079 53.2 167.6 63.8 201.1

-10.6

-33.5 -12

University of South Carolina Darla Moore

School of Business

Columbia SC Education

250,000

VF Outdoor HQ

Alameda CA Ofﬁce

160,000

Walgreens Evanston Store

Evanston IL

Mercantile

(Enclosed and

Strip Malls)

14,000 48.7 153.4 54.0 170.1 -5.3 -16.7 -4

Wayne Aspinall Federal Building and

Courthouse

(M)

Grand Junction CO

Public Order and

Safety

41,562 21.0 66.2 15.0 47.3 6.0 18.9 6

zero energy emerging

Building names in Bold are new to the List

Buildings with (M) indicate measured data

(L) indicates LEED Certiﬁcation

2018 Getting to Zero Status Update and List of Zero Energy Projects

YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2014

California Department of Motor Vehicles Sacramento CA Ofﬁce

520,000

Camp Parks Dublin CA Other

Catherine Houghton Arts Center

Bethehem NH Education

Chatham University Eden Hall Campus Richlandtown PA Education

Chemeketa Community College Health

Science Complex

Salem OR Education 70,000

Clarum Homes Headquarters Palo Alto CA Ofﬁce

Cottages at Cypress

Fort Bragg CA Multifamily

Craftsbury Outdoor Center Lodge

Craftsbury

Common

VT Lodging

Dixon Valley Glen

Dixon CA Multifamily

East Bay MET School Newport RI Education 16,800

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Building and University of Illinois

Champaign IL Education

250,000

Environmental Innovation Center

San Jose CA Education 46,000 23.8 75.0

Ewa Elementary School Portable

Classroom - Oahu

Aiea HI Education 13,000

Family Pet Hospital Clovis CA

Health Care

(Outpatient)

8,700

First Housing Development Corp Tampa FL Ofﬁce 17,000

Glumac Ofﬁce Aon Center Floor 23 Los Angeles CA Ofﬁce 17,500

Gundersen Health System

La Crosse WI

Health Care

(Inpatient)

Kaiser Permanente Antelope Valley

Medical Ofﬁce Building

(M)

Lancaster CA Ofﬁce

136,800

31.0 97.7 6.0 18.9 25.0 78.8 35

Kalaeloa NZE Community Honolulu HI Multifamily

La Escuelita Education Center Oakland CA Education

123,000

LPL Financial Center at La Jolla

Commons

San Diego CA Ofﬁce

415,000

Market One

Des Moines IA Ofﬁce 50,000

Massachusetts Division of Fisheries &

Wildlife - Field Headquarters Building

Westborough MA Ofﬁce 45,000 22.6 71.2 0.0 0.0 22.6 71.2 27

MEC Northeast Campus (M) Phoenix AZ Education

101,081

71.5 225.2 48.1 151.5 23.4 73.7 24

Monarch School Classroom

Houston TX Education 1,120

Oak Park High School Oak Park CA Education 960

Odyssey Elementary School Woods Cross UT Education 84,000

Perkins + Will Ofﬁce

San Francisco CA Ofﬁce 21,170

Pﬂugerville Elementary School Pﬂugerville TX Education 93,000

Richard J. Lee Elementary School

(M) Coppell TX Education 95,633 21.2 61.8 18.8 59.3 2.3 2.5 2

San Bernardino Community College

District

Garden Grove CA Education

SFO Airﬁeld Operations Terminal - VIP

Center

San Mateo CA Other 8,300

Solana Ranch Elementary School San Diego CA Education 68,000

Student Success and Retention Center at

East Los Angeles College

Los Angeles CA Education

136,000

The Village at Beechwood Lancaster CA Multifamily 22,960

zero energy emerging

Building names in Bold are new to the List

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(L) indicates LEED Certiﬁcation

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YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2014

UC Santa Barbara Recreation Center

Santa Barbara CA Education 140,000

University of Minnesota Itasca Biological

Station and Laboratories

Lake Itasca MN Education 10,900

Varennes Library

(M)

Varennes QC Public Assembly 24,000 14.5 45.7

Zenger Farms Community Building

Portland OR Public Assembly 8,500

2015

415 Mathilda (M) Sunnyvale CA Ofﬁce 33,750 7.1 22.4 6.6 20.9 0.5 1.5 1

Ankeny Row Townhomes Portland OR Multifamily 8,500

Archimania Ofﬁce Memphis TN Ofﬁce 5,000

Brinkmann True Value Miller Place NY

Mercantile (Retail

Other than Mall)

CA Lottery District Ofﬁce

Santa Fe Springs CA Ofﬁce 12,840 22.1 69.8 22.2 70.1 -0.1 -0.3 0

CA Lottery Southern Distribution

Center

Rancho

Cucamonga

CA Ofﬁce 60,600 12.0 37.8 0.0 0.0 12.0 37.8 17

Carlos Ortega Villas

Palm Desert CA Multifamily

Cincinnati Police Department -

District 3

(M)

Cincinnati OH

Public Order and

Safety

39,000 26.6 83.8 34.0 107.1 -7.4 -23.3 -7

Dearing Elementary School

Pﬂugerville TX Education 93,000

Delta Americas Headquarters

(M) Fremont CA Ofﬁce 200,000 50.1 157.7 36.7 115.6 13.4 42.1 19

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School Cambridge MA Education 140,000

Friends School of Portland

Cumberland

Foreside

ME Education 15,000

Grantham Middle School Goldsboro NC Education 86,400

Grass Education Center Washington DC MD Education 3,800

Greenway Building Arcata CA Ofﬁce 40,000

Gresham Wastewater Plant

Gresham OR Other

Hanover Page Mill Building

Palo Alto CA Ofﬁce 86,253 30.1 85.8 25.8 81.3 4.3 4.5 7

Indigo Hammond & Playle Architects

Ofﬁce (M)

Davis CA Ofﬁce 4,000 4.4 13.9

Langston Terrace Dwellings Washington DC DC Multifamily

Los Angeles Harbor College Sciences

Complex

Los Angeles CA Education 71,800 5.2 16.3 5.8 18.3 -0.6 -2.0 -1

Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB)

Albany GA Other

Monterey Bay CSU - Academic Building 2 Seaside CA Education 57,331

Mosaic Centre for Conscious Community

and Commerce

Edmonton AB Public Assembly 30,000

Muse School Calabasas CA Education

Mutual Housing at Spring Lake

Woodland CA Multifamily 64,600

MZ Condo-Townhomes

Scottsdale AZ Multifamily

Net Zero Plus Electrical Training Institute

Los Angeles CA Education 142,000

Parkview Place

Davis CA Multifamily 9,300

Picuris Pueblo Fire Station

Penasco NM

Public Order and

Safety

2,640

R W Kern Center at Hampshire College Amherst MA Education 16,950 23.2 73.1 26.6 83.8 -3.4 -10.7 -3

Resort at Playa Vista

Santa Monica CA Public Assembly 25,000

SAAS Stream

Seattle WA Education 32,156 32.3 101.7 1.4 4.4 30.9 97.3 33

Seasons At Ontario Senior Community

Ontario CA Multifamily

zero energy emerging

Building names in Bold are new to the List

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YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2015

Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab &

Multiuse Classrom

Mammoth Lakes CA Education 2,696

Spring Creek Middle School Seven Springs NC Education 96,000

Stanford Central Energy Facility Admin

Building

Stanford CA Ofﬁce

Sun Baths Ann Arbor MI Other 10,000

University of Hawaii at Manoa Net Zero

Classrooms

Honolulu HI Education 1,500

Village in the Bosque Apartments

Bernalillo NM Multifamily

West Hollywood City Hall Automated

Parking Garage

West Hollywood CA Other

Yarrow Village Fortuna CA Multifamily

Zero Energy Nanotechnology Building at

SUNY Poly

Utica NY Education 356,000

2016

Arch Nexus SAC Ofﬁce

Sacramento CA Ofﬁce 8,200 36.3 114.4 39.7 125.1 -3.4 -10.7 -5

Beneﬁcial State Bank

Oakland CA

Mercantile (Retail

Other than Mall)

BEST Center at Laney College Oakland CA Education

Bluebonnet Studios Mixed-Use

Commons

Austin TX Multifamily 86,000

Building Positive: Four in One Prototype Kansas City MO Other 43,000

California DOT SFOBB Phase 2 Warehouse Oakland CA

Warehouse and

Storage

28,000

City Place Development

Santa Clara CA Other

Cowhorn Vineyard Jacksonville OR Other 2,200

Creamery Row Arcata CA Multifamily

Culver City Library Los Angeles CA Public Assembly

DPR Ofﬁce Washington DC

Reston VA Ofﬁce 20,000

Egan Junior High School Los Altos CA Education 17,000

Equinox Apartments

Scottsdale AZ Multifamily

Fair Oaks Zero Net Energy Ofﬁce Pasadena CA Ofﬁce 12,000

Foothill College Sunnyvale Center

Los Altos CA Education 50,000

Fort Hunter Liggett

Jolon CA Other 23.9 75.3 23.9 30

Grow Community Bainbridge Island WA Multifamily

Hitchcock Center for the Environment

Amherst MA Education 9,000

Imperial Beach Branch Library

Imperial Beach CA Public Assembly 14,000

Indian Creek Nature Center Cedar Rapids IA Other 12,000

Ironhorse Lodge

Prineville OR Multifamily 27,000

Irvine High School Campus Center Irvine CA Education

Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical

Ofﬁce Building

San Jose CA Ofﬁce

King County Housing Authority

Administration Building

Tukwila WA Ofﬁce 36,000 28.0 88.2 0.0 0.0 28.0 88.2 40

King Street L (M)

Seattle WA Ofﬁce 3,680

LinkedIn Ofﬁces

Sunnyvale CA Ofﬁce 40,000 30.0 94.5 35.0 110.3 -5.0 -15.8 -8

Lowry Redevelopment Multi-Family ZNE Denver CO Multifamily

Lumbee River EMC

Raeford NC Ofﬁce 15,000 18.0 56.7

zero energy emerging

Building names in Bold are new to the List

Buildings with (M) indicate measured data

(L) indicates LEED Certiﬁcation

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YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2016

McClellan Ranch (M) Cupertino CA Other 3,265 20.9 65.7 11.6 36.6 9.3 29.1 12

MEC SW Campus Phase I & II (M)

Buckeye AZ Education 77,565 39.0 122.9 25.2 79.4 13.8 43.5 14

Montpelier Multi Modal Transit Center Montpelier VT Other 35,000

Mt. San Antonio College

Walnut CA Education 20,610

Newcastle Elementary

Newcastle CA Education

Olympic & Olive Apartments Los Angeles CA Multifamily

Ontario Association of Architects HQ

Toronto ON Ofﬁce

Passive House Apartments

Steamboat

Springs

CO Multifamily

Porter Drive Ofﬁce Building

Palo Alto CA Ofﬁce 96,626 24.5 77.2 21.0 66.2 3.5 11.0 5

REI Distribution Center

Goodyear AZ

Warehouse and

Storage

400,000

SFO Firehouse #3 San Mateo CA Other 20,000

Socastee Elementary School Myrtle Beach SC Education

Socastee Middle School Myrtle Beach SC Education

Sol-Lux Alpha (685 Florida Street) San Francisco CA Multifamily 7,000

SunCommon Headquarters Waterbury VT Ofﬁce 8,800 17.5 55.1 17.5 55.1 0.0 0.0 0

Sustainable Energy Fund Allentown PA Ofﬁce 15,000

Tesla Gigafactory Reno NV Other

10,000,000

Toyota Dealership Corvallis

Corvallis OR Other 34,800

Vista Grande Elementary School

Rancho Palos

Verdes

CA Education

Waitsﬁeld Town Ofﬁces Waitsﬁeld VT Ofﬁce 4,700 13.2 41.5 13.2 41.5 0.0 0.0 0

Walden Pond Visitor Center

Boston MA Public Assembly 5,680

William Penn Hotel San Francisco CA Lodging 41,836

Woodside Priory School

Portola Valley CA Education 13,000

Wyandot Lodge

Columbus OH Public Assembly 5,800

Xilinx HQ Renovation San Jose CA Ofﬁce 100,000 37.0 116.5 30.7 96.7 6.3 19.8 10

2017

380 Pastoria Ofﬁce Sunnyvale CA Ofﬁce 45,383 25.7 80.8 31.0 97.8 -5.4 -17.0 -8

47951 Westinghouse

Fremont CA Other 82,408

Amenities Building, Towers at Great

America

Santa Clara CA Food Service 23,930 174.2 548.8 342.3 1,078.4

-168.1

-529.6 -26

Arizona State University Student Pavilion

Tempe AZ Education 74,653 40.2 126.6 16.3 51.5 23.8 75.1 25

Borrego Springs Library and Park

San Diego CA Public Assembly 13,500

Boulder Commons Boulder CO Other 101,000 24.1 75.9 25.3 79.7 -1.2 -3.8 -1

Clatsop Community College- Patriot Hall

Astoria OR Education 36,000

College of Continuing & Professional

Education (CCPE)

Long Beach CA Education 35,000

Cornell Tech NYC Academic Building -

Roosevelt Island

New York City NY Education 158,000 31.9 100.5 0.0 0.0 31.9 100.5 31

Crotty Hall - Umass

Amherst MA Education 16,800

Housing and Community Development Ofﬁce San Diego CA Ofﬁce 29,408 26.1 82.1 30.2 95.0 -4.1 -12.9 -6

IBEW Local 58

Detroit MI Ofﬁce 33,000

Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Hills

Medical Ofﬁce Building

Los Angeles CA Ofﬁce 100,000

zero energy emerging

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YEAR PROJECT NAME CITY STATE

BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2017

Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa

Medical Ofﬁce Building

Santa Rosa CA Ofﬁce 87,300 30.0 94.6 30.1 94.8 -0.1 -0.2 0

Makers Quarter Block D San Diego CA Ofﬁce 52,974 46.8 147.4 28.2 88.8 18.6 58.6 26

Marin Academy Science & Innovation

Center

San Raphael CA Education 20,040 38.4 121.1 61.8 194.6 -23.3 -73.5 -29

Mark Day School San Raphael CA Education 11,917 27.6 86.9 55.6 175.1 -28.0 -88.2 -35

Memphis Welcome Center Memphis TN Public Assembly

Myrtle Beach Middle School Myrtle Beach SC Education

Ocean Discovery Institute

San Diego CA Education

Ohlone Campus Core Replacement Project Fremont CA Education

Oregon Zoo Ed Center

Portland OR Public Assembly 20,000

OUSD Madison Middle School Oakland CA Education 35,000 14.9 46.9 17.6 55.5 -2.7 -8.6 -3

Oxford County Waste Management

Administration Building

Salford ON Ofﬁce 4,000

Palomar Community College San Marcos CA Education

Pitzer College Redford Conservancy

Claremont CA Education

Planet Fitness - St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg FL Public Assembly 20,000

Ralston Intermediate Multipurpose

Building

Garden Grove CA Education

Salt Lake County District Attorney Ofﬁce Salt Lake City UT Ofﬁce

Santiago High School Science Building Garden Grove CA Education 8,000 26.0 81.9 0.0 0.0 26.0 81.9 30

SFO Ground Transportation Unit Facility San Mateo CA Other 14,000

Sonoma Academy Grange Building Santa Rosa CA Education 130,000

St. James Intermediate School Myrtle Beach SC Education

The Roosevelt Tempe AZ Multifamily

TreeHouse Flagship Store

Dallas TX

Mercantile (Retail

Other than Mall)

25,000

UC Davis California Avenue Lecture Hall

Davis CA Education

UC Santa Barbara Student Services

Buildings

Santa Barbara CA Education

United Therapeutics Jax Net Zero Center

Jacksonville FL Ofﬁce 75,000

West Dorm, Wolf Ridge Environmental

Learning Center

Finland MN Multifamily 16,500 31.0 97.7

Wilde Lake Middle School

Ellicott City MD Education 106,221

Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center

Pendleton OR

Health Care

(Outpatient)

63,000

Yosemite Community College District

Modesto CA Education

Z-Stay

Denver CO Ofﬁce 1,870 37.0 116.6 32.8 103.3 4.2 13.3 6

2018

American Geophysical Union HQ Washington DC DC Ofﬁce 62,000

Atherton City Hall

Atherton CA Ofﬁce

CA State Poly Tech University Pomona CA Education 138,000 17.0 53.4 23.6 74.2 -6.6 -20.8 -8

Carolina Forest Middle School Myrtle Beach SC Education

City of Dublin Public Safety Complex

Dublin CA

Public Order and

Safety

City of Hayward 21st Century Library Hayward CA Public Assembly 57,000 35.6 112.1 43.2 136.1 -7.6 -24.0 -7

City of Santa Clara Swim Center

Santa Clara CA Public Assembly

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BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2018

Durham Education Center

Tigard OR Education 17,000 19.0 59.9 28.7 90.4 -9.7 -30.5 -10

Elk Grove Civic Center - Aquatic Center

Elk Grove CA Public Assembly

Elk Grove Civic Center - Community/

Senior Center

Elk Grove CA Public Assembly

Environmental Learning Center at

Mass Audubon Drumlin Farm

Worcester MA Other 3,700

Gulf State Park Interpretive Center

Baldwin County AL Public Assembly

Half Moon Bay Library Half Moon Bay CA Public Assembly 22,000

Kaiser Permanente Ventura Medical

Ofﬁce Building

Ventura CA Ofﬁce 57,000

Lick Wilmerding New Classroom

Building

San Francisco CA Education 55,140 21.1 66.4 24.9 78.4 -3.8 -12.0 -5

Lombardo Welcome Center

Millersville PA Education 14,627

Mohawk College Centre for

Partnership and Innovation

Hamilton ON Education 90,000

North Coastal Health and Human

Services Agency Facility

San Diego CA Ofﬁce 40,000

OUSD Glenview Elementary School

Replacement

Oakland CA Education 53,700

Pikes Peak Summit Complex

Colorado Springs CO Public Assembly 26,000

Re Farm Café State College PA Food Service

Rio Hondo Community College District Whittier CA Education 78,201

Schmidt Ocean Institute and Schmidt

Family Foundation

Palo Alto CA Ofﬁce 25,000 28.0 88.2 32.0 100.8 -4.0 -12.6 -6

SFO Long-Term Parking Garage #2

San Francisco CA Other

1,300,000

Sonoma County Junior College District Sonoma CA Education 26,954

United Therapeutics Unisphere Silver Spring MD Ofﬁce 122,000

Whisper Valley net zero community Austin TX Other

Woodburn Success High School

Woodburn OR Education 11,000

Yosemite Institute

Yosemite National

Park

CA Education

2019

Bethelehem Steel Site

Lackawanna NY Other 76,280

Botanica Educational Center

Louisville KY Education 10,500

Coliseum Place

Oakland CA Multifamily

Denver Water Headquarters Ofﬁce Denver CO Ofﬁce 190,000

Erie County Z7+ Light Industrial

Facility (ECIDA)

Buffalo NY Other

Garﬁeld Elementary School San Francisco CA Education 33,800

Georgia Tech - Living Building

Challenge

Atlanta GA Education 34,258 35.0 110.3

Graceland Elementary School

Baltimore MD Education 94,330

Healdsburg City Hall

Healdsburg CA Ofﬁce 13,282

Holabird Elementary School

Baltimore MD Education 94,330

King Open / Cambridge St Upper

School & Community Complex

Cambridge MA Education 270,000

Lilienthal Elementary School

San Francisco CA Education 21,995

Lubber Run Community Center

Arlington VA Public Assembly 42,000

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BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

2019

Marin County Day School

Corte Madera CA Education

Nueva Middle School Expansion

Hillsborough CA Education 24,000

Santa Monica City Hall

Santa Monica CA Ofﬁce 92,000

Telesis Dairy House Complex

Lincoln NE Other 174,000

Whole Foods San Francisco CA Food Sales 25,187

Yosemite Slough Ed Center

San Francisco CA Education

2020

AvalonBay Middleﬁeld

Mountain View CA Multifamily

CA Air Resources Board ZNE Building Sacramento CA Other 300,000 102.9 324.1 102.9 324.1 0.0 0.0 0

Cal State Northridge

Los Angeles CA Education

6,000,000

32.6 102.6 5.9 18.5 26.7 84.1 31

Fort Bliss Fort Bliss TX Other

Fort Carson Fort Carson CO Other

Fort Detrick Frederick MD Other

Fremont High School Oakland CA Education 140,000

IKEA Multiple

Mercantile (Retail

Other than Mall)

LA Convention Center Los Angeles CA Public Assembly

1,000,000

Oregon National Guard Roseburg OR Other 20,000

SFO Airport Campus San Mateo CA Other

Sierra Army Depot Herlong CA Other

UC Merced Campus Merced CA Education

6,250,000

West Point USMA West Point NY Other

2023

CCCCD Diablo Valley College

Kinesiology Complex

Pleasant Hill CA Education

2029

The Village at RiverBend London ON Multifamily

2030

Vail Resorts

Multiple Other

Year Unknown

Arbor Green

Carson CA Multifamily 34,880 15.6 49.2 18.9 59.6 -3.3 -10.4 -5

Arcade Row

Hyattsville MD Multifamily 64,560

Arroyo De Paz I

Desert Hot

Springs

CA Multifamily 65,752 27.4 86.2 31.9 100.4 -4.5 -14.2 -7

Atsacadero

Atascadero CA Multifamily 60,588 18.0 56.8 19.5 61.5 -1.5 -4.7 -3

Bandar Salaam

San Diego CA Multifamily 54,732 11.7 36.7 12.0 37.8 -0.3 -1.1 -1

Buena Vista

HolLister CA Multifamily

CaListoga Apartments

CaListoga CA Multifamily 37,669 23.4 73.7 26.9 84.8 -3.5 -11.1 -6

Camp Southern Ground, Peterson

Dining Hall & Lodge #1

Peachtree City GA Food Service 19,500

Castroville

Castroville CA Multifamily 50,254 28.2 88.7 28.2 88.7 0.0 0.0 0

CCAC Boyce Campus Student Housing

Pittsburgh PA Multifamily

Cloverdale

Cloverdale CA Multifamily 29,618 13.0 40.9 13.0 40.9 0.0 0.0 0

Colonial House Apartments

Oxnard CA Multifamily 46,552 17.2 54.0 17.0 53.6 0.2 0.4 0

Colorado University Indoor Practice

Facility

Boulder CO Public Assembly 108,000

Corn Creek Visitor Center

Las Vegas NV Public Assembly 15,000

Heritage Square

Pasadena CA Multifamily 46,306 14.6 45.9 13.6 42.8 1.0 3.1 2

La Costa Paloma

Carlsbad CA Multifamily 192,043 8.9 28.2 11.6 36.5 -2.6 -8.3 -4

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Building names in Bold are new to the List

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BUILDING

TYPE

SIZE

(SF)

TOTAL

EUI

SOURCE

EUI

SITE

RPI

SOURCE

RPI

NET

EUI

NET

SOURCE

EUI

ZEPI

SCORE

Year Unknown

Lancaster Urban Forest Center

Lancaster PA Education 21,000

Live Oak

Live Oak CA Multifamily 86,366 20.0 63.0 20.0 63.1 0.0 -0.1 0

Los Adobes de Maria I

Santa Maria CA Multifamily 64,630 5.5 17.4 5.5 17.4 0.0 0.0 0

Los Osos Middle School

Los Osos CA Education

Lynhaven Elementary School

Multipurpose

Campbell CA Education

NetZero Village

Rotterdam NY Multifamily

Oak Park 1

Paso Robles CA Multifamily 94,923 10.6 33.5 11.4 35.8 -0.7 -2.3 -1

Phase Change Energy Solutions

Manufacturing Facility

Asheboro NC Other 75,000

Placer Village

Placerville CA Multifamily 72,400 31.7 99.8 31.7 99.8 0.0 0.0 0

River View Townhomes

Guadalupe CA Multifamily 96,504 11.0 34.6 13.9 43.9 -3.0 -9.3 -5

Riverview Terrace

Fortuna CA Multifamily 43,740 19.5 61.5 20.0 63.0 -0.5 -1.5 -1

Rufﬁn Organic Food and Learning

Center

Las Vegas NV Education

S Ofﬁce Buildings

Seattle WA Ofﬁce

1,200,000

San Andreas

Watsonville CA Multifamily 49,420 9.6 30.3 18.8 59.2 -9.2 -28.9 -16

San Remo I

Hesperia CA Multifamily 66,223 16.2 51.0 14.9 47.0 1.3 4.0 2

San Remo II

Hesperia CA Multifamily 63,232 15.8 49.7 15.6 49.2 0.1 0.5 0

Tesoro Grove

San Diego CA Multifamily 85,113 8.9 28.2 10.3 32.4 -1.3 -4.2 -2

Thaden School

Bentonville AR Education 125,000

Thomas Jefferson Elementary School

Baltimore MD Education 105,000

University of Wisconsin Arlington

Agricultural Research Station

Arlington WI Education

Valley View Phase II

Selma CA Multifamily 51,698 21.5 67.7 21.5 67.8 0.0 -0.1 0

Wasco

Wasco CA Multifamily 76,325 19.6 61.8 19.9 62.5 -0.2 -0.7 0

Williams Green Valley

Williams CA Multifamily 44,869 22.6 71.2 22.6 71.2 0.0 0.0 0

Winnetka

Winnetka CA Multifamily 53,642 15.6 49.3 21.9 68.9 -6.2 -19.6 -10

Yellowstone National Park Youth

Campus

Mammoth WY Education 52,000

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