Energy Upgrades Pay Off for Taxpayers and Feds

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Infrared image of the outside wall of the control and test rooms. The test room on the left has undergone modifications. Its image shows significantly more blue (a colder temperature less heat loss). The unmodified control room on the right shows lit ...
Infrared image of the outside wall of the control and test rooms. The test room, on the left, has undergone modifications. Its image shows significantly more blue (a colder temperature, less heat loss). The unmodified control room on the right shows little blue and much more green, orange and red colors that represent the warm air escaping to the outside. Credit: NIST

Buildings account for 40 percent of the energy consumed within the United States and a similar percentage of carbon dioxide emissions. National Institute of Standards and Technology engineers recently took a look at energy-related upgrades to their own quarters—and found energy-related improvements were well worth the expense. A NIST plan to act on the findings should save taxpayers money while helping meet a presidential order for federal agencies to cut energy consumption to 70 percent of 2003 levels by 2015.


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