Professional Energy Services

 

RUYLE MECHANICAL SERVICES offers a complete line of energy services to help you achieve your goals in the ever expanding and sometimes confusing area of energy efficiency and sustainability. We use the “whole building works as a system” approach in identifying energy conservation measures (ECM) that will benefit your building.

There is an old saying that goes, “You have to know where you are starting from in order to get to where you want to go”. Our services begin with benchmarking the current ways your building is using energy through the Energy Star Portfolio Manager. This will give us the information necessary to begin developing your customized energy efficiency plan. The process continues by determining what level of assessment best fits your facilities’ needs and budget. We have three levels of assessment. The Level 1 assessment is a walk-through of your facility from which we provide recommendations for ECM’s. Level 2 uses the Level 1 information to develop proposals and life cycle costs, which are used to provide estimates on your return on investment (ROI) and simple payback schedules, as well as some basic equipment testing and monitoring. Level 3 is the most comprehensive assessment where engineering and building information modeling is added to the information that was learned during Level 1 and 2 to develop plans for capital improvements that will make your facilities more energy efficient, comfortable, safe and sustainable.

We currently have two LEED accredited professionals on staff who understand the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED building certification program. We can join your new construction project team or your building operations and maintenance manager as HVACR specialists to enhance the certification process for your building.

For our current contracted maintenance agreement customers, we offer an energy efficiency add-on that will increase the benefits that you normally receive from scheduled periodic maintenance. This energy efficiency enhancement will provide benchmarking, monitoring, analysis, and ongoing recommendations and improvements to reduce your facilities’ energy spend.

We can also assist you in finding and implementing incentive and grant programs offered by the utility companies and the government. Whether you own or manage a public or private facility, our staff will be able to bring you up-to-date on what programs are available and applicable. As a Program Ally in the Ameren Act On Energy program, we can direct you to the proper incentives that are available for your ECM’s. We are familiar with the organizations that will be managing the stimulus package funds as they become available.

Energy services are certainly not a “One Size Fits All” proposition. Let RUYLE MECHANICAL SERVICES help make your energy efficiency goals successful by customizing a plan for you.

LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) created LEED as a rating system for green buildings.

What is LEED?

LEED is a voluntary building certification program that establishes a common standard of measurement for what consistutes a high performance "green" building. Since its introduction in 2000, LEED has become a nationally accepted benchmark for leadership in green building design, construction and operations. LEED gives building owners and project teams a concrete, practical set of design and performance goals, and provides independent third-party certification that validates their achievement.

LEED takes a holistic approach to sustainability, recognizing performance in 5 key areas: Site, Water Energy, Materials and Resources, and Indoor Environmental Quality, with an additional category to recognize Innovation. Four progressive levels of LEED certification - Certified, Silver, Gold, and Platinum - are awarded based on the number of "credits" or points achieved in each category.

The environmental impact of the building design, construction and operations industry is enormous. Buildings annually consume more than 30% of the total energy and more than 60% of the electricity used in the U.S.

LEED for Existing Buildings - Operations and Maintenance encourages owners and operators of existing buildings to implement sustainable operations and maintenance practices, and to reduce the environmental impact of their buildings over their functional life cycle.

Benefits of LEED

• The green building sector keeps growing, and more and more building professionals, owners and operators are seeking the benefits of certification
• Green design makes a positive impact on public health and the environment
• LEED reduces operating costs, enhances building and organizational marketability, increases occupant productivity, and helps create a sustainable community
• The rating systems are voluntary, consensus-based, market driven, and based on accepted energy and environmental principles
• LEED strikes a balance between established practices and emerging concepts.

Contact: Don Howerter, LEED AP – (309) 674-6644 – dhowerter@ruylecorp.com