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Energy Performance Evaluation of a New Commercial Building using Calibrated As-built Simulation with Monitoring Data  

Song, Su-Won (Center for Sustainable Housing, Yonsei University)
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Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.20, no.3, 2008 , pp. 155-166 More about this Journal
Abstract
The performance evaluation of a new building is becoming more important because efficient design alone is often not sufficient to deliver an efficient building. However, there is a lack of standard evaluation methods to measure the energy performance of a new construction that has Energy Conservation Design Measures(ECDMs). This study presents an enhanced method based on calibrated whole-building simulation for evaluating the energy performance of new commercial buildings and demonstrates its use using a case-study building, including: an Energy Use Index(EUI) comparison with sub-metered data and an evaluation of the performance of specific ECDMs. The use of this method has determined that the case-study building was shown to use approximately 47% less energy than the base-case building that has the same shape and function as the case-study building(i.e., calibrated as-built simulation mode]), but doesn't include the simulated ECDMs.
Keywords
New building; Energy conservation design measure; Calibrated as-built simulation; Performance evaluation;
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