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Best Practice Guides provide information on the design, construction, and operation of specific technologies that contribute to energy efficiency and sustainability in laboratories. The guides include information from actual implementation of these technologies in various laboratory facilities by highlighting quantifiable performance goals and possible methods to achieve them.
Labs21 Best Practice Guides
- Chilled Beams (PDF, 15 pp., 3.0 MB)
- Optimizing Laboratory Ventilation Rates (PDF, 13 pp., 1.22 MB)
The Labs21 Optimizing Ventilation Rates Best Practice Guide is serialized in the February,  March, and April 2010 issues of R&D Magazine's Laboratory Design Newsletter .
- Commissioning Ventilated Containment Systems in the Laboratory (PDF, 8 pp., 2.8 MB)
- Laboratory Guidelines Using ASHRAE 90.1—2007 Appendix G (PDF, 8 pp., 85 KB)
- Metrics and Benchmarks for Energy Efficiency in Laboratories (PDF 11 pp., 1.06 MB)
- Manifolding Laboratory Exhaust Systems (PDF 10 pp., 410 KB)
- Efficient Electric Lighting in Laboratories (PDF 10 pp., 759 KB)
- Minimizing Reheat Energy Use in Laboratories (PDF 8 pp., 392 KB)
- Right-Sizing Laboratory Equipment Loads (PDF 8 pp., 546 KB)
- Modeling Exhaust Dispersion for Specifying Acceptable Exhaust/Intake Designs (PDF 12 pp., 772 KB)
- Water Efficiency Guide for Laboratories (PDF 12 pp., 504 KB)
- Low-Pressure-Drop HVAC Design for Laboratories (PDF, 8 pp., 385 KB)
- Daylighting in Laboratories (PDF, 8 pp., 572 KB)
- Energy Recovery for Ventilation Air in Laboratories (PDF, 8 pp., 301 KB)
- Onsite Power Systems for Laboratories (PDF, 22 pp., 1.2 MB)
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Industry Volunteers
Labs21 Best Practice Guides are developed with input from industry experts. Labs21 invites industry experts to assist in developing additional guides. If you are interested in lending your expertise, please contact the Labs21 technical team, as indicated below.
For more information, contact:
Otto Van Geet
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Phone: 303 384-7369
Fax: 303 384-7330
E-mail: otto.vangeet@nrel.gov
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