ACEEE Paper: Energy Savings at the Bullitt Center

ABSTRACT

Net-positive-energy buildings achieve performance goals through multiple integrated strategies incorporating technologies, systems, and human behavior. This paper examines the energy performance of the Bullitt Center in Seattle, WA and in particular looks at energy use that is influenced by occupant decisions. The 51,000 square foot office building is net-positive-energy and employs a series of techniques to encourage energy conserving behaviors including promoting awareness of the energy impacts of daily decisions by its occupants. This paper presents a review of the energy performance of the Bullitt Center and introduces a literature review on pro-environmental behaviors before looking closer at particular behavior influenced energy use. Specifically, how daily decisions around energy conserving actions—in this case the use of the stairs or the elevator--in the Bullitt Center might be influenced by visual cues, building design, and social norms which in turn might influence other behaviors that promote energy efficiency.

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