Abstract
Small and medium office buildings consume a significant parcel of the U.S. building stock energy consumption. Still, owners lack resources and experience to conduct detailed energy audits and retrofit analysis. We present an eight-steps framework for an energy retrofit assessment in small and medium office buildings. Through a bottom-up approach and a web-based retrofit toolkit tested on a case study in Arizona, this methodology was able to save about 50% of the total energy consumed by the case study building, depending on the adopted measures and invested capital. While the case study presented is a deep energy retrofit, the proposed framework is effective in guiding the decision-making process that precedes any energy retrofit, deep or light.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 172-179 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Procedia Engineering |
Volume | 145 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |
Event | International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction, ICSDEC 2016 - Tempe, United States Duration: May 18 2016 → May 20 2016 |
Keywords
- HVAC
- MELs
- Retrofit
- energy
- office buildings
- plug loads
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering