PRESENTATION
2019 - PI World - San Francisco - Water, Energy, and Facilities
Using operating data to enhance operations and spark sustainable innovation (UC Davis)
The UC Davis campus operates as a mini-city, with its own utilities serving about 1,200 buildings. Operating data from these systems is stored in a PI database. Two teams within Facilities Management use PI data to generate operational improvements and enhance collaborations. This enables a culture of sustainable innovation.
The Buildings Energy Engineering team implements projects to save energy in campus buildings and recoups financial savings to fund its operations. The talk will present innovative optimizations implemented in HVAC systems, and measurement & verification methods used to demonstrate financial savings.
The Utilities Data and Engineering team supports the operations and growth of the utilities systems. The team automated a process for identifying and solving energy meter issues. The team also developed a visualization that brings together the operation of the chilled water plant with the 100+ buildings connected to the chilled water loop.
Company
University of California, Davis
Speaker
Nicolas Fauchier-Magnan
Nicolas serves as a senior engineer at UC Davis, providing leadership to the Energy & Controls engineering team at the University of California, Davis. His team seeks to make campus buildings more energy-efficient through no-cost and low-cost optimizations of the HVAC systems. This work involves both deep dives into individual campus buildings, as well as cross-campus analyses and optimizations. Nicolas is a licensed professional engineer as well as a LEED-accredited professional, and has 10 years of experience in the field of building energy efficiency.
Company
University of California, Davis
Speaker
Joseph Yonkoski
Joseph Yonkoski is an engineer on the Utilities, Data & Engineering team in the Utilities department at UC Davis. The team supports the growth, operation, and improvement of the campus’ major utility systems, including the Central Heating and Cooling Plant, the Wastewater Treatment Plant, solid waste systems, and others.In addition, the team maintains a meter database for holding data for all utility system meters on campus. Joseph is a chemical engineer and earned his degree from the University of Michigan in 2008. He spent the first eight years of his career as a process engineer designing carbon dioxide capture plants for a large engineering and design firm. In this role he designed processes for removing carbon dioxide from flue gases, sized equipment, performed economic analyses and oversaw the operation of a pilot facility in Germany for two years. In Joseph’s current role, he provides engineering support for campus energy systems, particularly the Central Heating and Cooling Plant and the Renewable Energy Anaerobic Digester. Joseph uses PI to analyze data from these systems and to visualize performance metrics in orderto recommend and implement energy saving improvements.