Tom Lecky, director of the Energy Information Administration’s statistics department, will talk about the Survey May 4 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Ron Jarnagin, president of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, will moderate.

ASHRAE will host a luncheon next month to discuss work on a commercial energy use survey.

Tom Lecky, director of the Energy Information Administration’s statistics department, will talk about the "Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey" May 4 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Ron Jarnagin, president of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, will moderate.

“The luncheon provides a great opportunity for ANSI (American National Standards Institute) federation members and others in the built environment industry to hear about CBECS and how important it is to building performance benchmarking,” Jarnagin said.

The last commercial energy use survey was released in 2003. The 2007 version was not released due to data collection errors, and Congress stopped funding the 2011 survey while it was under way. Lobbying by ASHRAE and related groups led to money for the 2012 being restored.

Data collection for the new survey will begin in April 2013, with results about a year later, officials said.