Kansas City Support Office, Buildings Energy Analysis Service; Notice of Solicitation of Grant Proposal.

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Kansas City Support Office (KCSO) is soliciting grant proposals to pursue innovative concepts to develop a viable process for utilizing engineering students in a buildings analysis program. The program will focus on a integrated (holistic) systems analysis and development of a management/ recommissioning plan to facilitate the implementation of recommendations. The analysis will include the operations, maintenance, and restoration needs of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, lighting, domestic water systems, and the energy accounting procedures currently being used. The project team will also implement a utility accounting system in cooperation with the participating building owner/ operators to analyze historic and future utility usage. The target facilities will be schools and other public institutional buildings in the four state KCSO region. The program will pattern certain aspects after the DOE's Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center (EADC) program but will emphasize measurement of results, institutional partnerships, funding mechanisms to perpetuate the process, training requirements and identification of public and private resources t