Portland General Electric

This page has been set up to make materials available for the training sessions I occasionally support for Portland General Electric. The buttons below will take you to the indicated section of this page where you will find links will let you download materials and other resources associated with the referenced presentation or training session.

2018-04-18 NW Facilities Expo

2019-09-17 Building Tune-up Workshop

2018-09-12 Building Tune-up Workshop

NW Facilities Expo Session: Building Tune‐up and Commissioning, April 18, 2018

Presentation Slides

This presentation provides and introduction to the commissioning process, in particular, existing building commissioning including:

What is building commissioning?
Why do we need to commission?
Commissioning’s benefits
Functional testing and the commissioning time line
The system concept
The load profile
The control system
Commissioning and the broader perspective

This presentation stands on it's own but also provide information to orient and prepare attendees for a half day workshop on September 12, 2017 titled Building Tune-ups for Efficiency. The workshop will be presented from 8:00 AM to 12:00 noon at the PGE Corporate University Campus at the Clackamas Community College in Wilsonville, Oregon. The link above takes you to a page where you can get more information on this class and others that Portland General Electric offers.

NW Expo Slides (intro_to_cx_v15_support.pdf)
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Building Tune-ups for Efficiency, September 12, 2018

Presentation Slides and Electronic Handouts

The zip file below contains the slides from the presentation along with the handouts I mentioned in class. There are slides at the end of the slide deck that provide a bit more detail about what is in each folder. The list of Portland Area commissioning providers I mentioned in class is also included.
The SketchUp Models I used in class and related resources can be downloaded from the SketchUp Models page of the website.

2018-09-12_handouts.zip
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The file below contains the pre/post class questions and answers in case you were curious after taking the quiz. In addition, I wanted to mention that I realized after the class that several of you had expressed an interest in savings opportunities for steam systems. At the time, while I had not included steam specific content in the slides I had put together, I intended to work a bit of information into the class at some point. But then, being an old fart, I forgot.

So to make up for that, I made a new page on the website that has the resources and concepts listed that I was going to mention in class. You can also find additional steam resources in the Resource List that you can download from the General Resources page of the web site. Just open up the bookmarks and navigate to the Heating Equipment topic under Skill 3. You will also find a number of resources in a blog post I did titled Steam Heating Resources.

pre_and_post_questions_v1-_answers.pdf
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Building Tune-ups for Efficiency, September 17, 2019

Presentation Slides and Electronic Handouts

The zip file below contains resources and a .pdf file of the slides that I will present in the class tomorrow.

pre-class_materials.zip
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SketchUp Models

sketchup_models.zip
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scene_guides.zip
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We will be using SketchUp models for virtual field activities in the class as you learned from the pre-class announcement. I will upload the models we will be using to this location the evening before the class, when I upload the other materials.