Sustainability Solutions
Berkeley Lab freely shares its innovative solutions and strategies to help other organizations improve their environmental performance and accelerate sustainability efforts.
Reducing Energy, Water, Waste
- Energy and Water Management System certified to ISO 50001, the Lab’s overarching program and strategy for reducing energy and water consumption and utility costs.
- Ongoing Building Commissioning (OCx), the Lab’s highly successful program for finding, achieving, and maintaining energy and water savings, and promoting optimal building performance.
- Efficiency in High Performance Computing, best practices for energy and water efficiency at the Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- WasteGuide, an online resource to guide waste diversion, recycling, and responsible disposal.
- Individual Action Guidance for the Lab community to promote sustainability at the Lab and beyond
- Policies that guide the Lab’s sustainable construction and operations:
Electrification
- Integrative Genomics Building – an all-electric, new construction project
Measuring, Monitoring, & Reporting
- Data Analytics with Skyspark – The Lab’s integrated analytics platform for automated building systems monitoring and fault detection
- Sustainability Reporting – The Lab transparently reports on key sustainability metrics.
Innovation
Living Laboratory – The Lab’s sustainability team and scientific staff collaborate to make Lab operational data available for research, and to put cutting-edge research concepts into practice in Lab operations.