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National Park Service
Energy & Water Audits and
Sustainability Assessments
Pacific West Region, Intermountain Region,
Midwest Region
The National Park Service has recently initiated an agencywide program to conduct energy and water audits and
complete sustainability assessments in its parks as the first
step of a comprehensive plan to decrease greenhouse gas
emissions, and power and water consumption throughout its
parks.
The work is being completed in general accordance with
Section 432 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of
2007 (EISA) and according to the Department of Energy’s
Facility Energy Management Guidelines and Criteria for
Energy and Water Evaluations in covered facilities. The
work is also intended to serve as a tool in evaluating
progress and planning per Executive Orders 13423 and
13514.
Facility Engineering Associates (FEA) completed energy and
water audits and sustainability assessments of over 660
buildings at eight national parks: Death Valley National Park,
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Lake Mead National
Recreation Area, Mount Rainier National Park, Olympic
National Park, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Indiana Dunes
National Lakeshore, and Zion National Park. FEA was also
recently awarded a ninth park: San Francisco Maritime
National Historic Park.
As part of the audits, FEA analyzed the energy and water
consumption across all types of buildings and use categories
and recommended various Energy Conservation Measures
(ECMs) that included both capital projects and building
operational measures and fleet management procedures.
PRIMARY CLIENT REFERENCE
Aaron Dowe
Project Specialist
Denver Service Center
12795 W. Alameda Pkwy
Lakewood, CO 80228
[email protected]
(415) 623-2141
START DATE: February 2010
COMPLETION DATE: Dec 2010
PROJECT SIZE: over 2,300,000 GSF
VALUE OF CONTRACT: $642,000
CLIENT BENEFITS
 Provided list of achievable
energy and water
conservation measures
 Benchmarks and baselines for
progress monitoring
 Best practices in energy and
water conservation and
sustainability programming
SCOPE
 Document progress in
sustainability efforts
 Establish baseline water &
energy consumption
 Compare on-going
consumption baseline
 Identify energy/water
conservation measures
 Prioritize ECMs according to
payback
 Evaluate progress of efforts
against Executive Orders
 Recommend a plan for
continued progress toward
meeting the goals of the
Executive Orders