Charged with developing a "living laboratory" to demonstrate energy-saving solutions in existing buildings and sustainable strategies in new facilities, the team behind the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation project at the Philadelphia Navy Yard faced a formidable challenge to bring together a wide variety of high-performance building systems.
But creating the collaborative environment to achieve the project's objectives proved to be just as challenging. With completion scheduled for late summer, the CBEI team's approach is expected to yield a project with expanded scope that also exceeds targeted energy goals and stays on budget.