Commercial buildings energy consumption survey.

"DOE/EIA-0318."

Predictive models of buildings energy consumption

Dissertação de Mestrado, Engenharia Electrónica e Telecomunicações, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2015

State buildings energy program news /

Mode of access: Internet.

Estudio del proceso de calificación energética de un edificio de salida de telecabinas situado en Espui ‪(‬Lleida‪)‬ mediante herramientas de simulación energética

Per tal que un edifici de sortida de telecabines d'Espui obtingui una qualificació energètica, es fa un estudi mitjançant sistemes de simulació energètica

Estudio del proceso de calificación energética de un edificio de salida de telecabinas situado en Espui ‪(‬Lleida‪)‬ mediante herramientas de simulación energética

Per tal que un edifici de sortida de telecabines d'Espui obtingui una qualificació energètica, es fa un estudi mitjançant sistemes de simulació energètica

Evaluation of ventilation requirements and energy consumption in existing New York City school buildings /

Includes bibliographical references.

Controlling energy consumption in single buildings /

On cover: An investigation conducted by Newcomb & Boyd, consulting engineers; sponsored by Naval Facilities Engineering Command.

A semiotic framework for information representation of energy consumption in office buildings

Taking a perspective from a whole building lifecycle, occupier's actions could account for about 50% of energy. However occupants' activities influence building energy performance is still a blind area. Building energy performance is thought to be the result of a combination of building fabrics, building services and occupants' activities, along with their interactions. In this sense, energy consumption in built environment is regarded as a socio-technical system. In order to understand how such a system works, a range of physical, technical and social information is involved that needs to be integrated and aligned. This paper has proposed a semiotic framework to add value for Building Information Modelling, incorporating energy-related occupancy factors in a context of office buildings. Further, building information has been addressed semantically to describe a building space from the facility management perspective. Finally, the framework guides to set up building information representation system, which can help facility managers to manage buildings efficiently by improving their understanding on how office buildings are operated and used.

Simple prompts reduce inadvertent energy consumption from lighting in office buildings

Building designs regularly fail to achieve the anticipated levels of in-use energy consumption. The interaction of occupants with building controls is often cited as a key factor behind this discrepancy. This paper examines whether one factor in inadvertent energy consumption might be the appearance of post-completion errors (when an intended action is not taken because a primary goal has already been accomplished) in occupants’ interactions with building controls. Post-completion errors have been widely studied in human-computer interaction but the concept has not previously been applied to the interaction of occupants with building controls. Two experiments were carried out to examine the effect of incorporating two different types of simple prompt to reduce post-completion error in the use of light switches in office meeting rooms. Results showed that the prompts were effective and that occupants switched off lights when leaving the room more often when presented with a normative prompt than with a standard injunction. Additionally, an over reliance on PIR sensors to turn off lights after meetings was observed, which reduced their intended energy savings. We conclude that achieving low carbon buildings in practice is not solely a technological issue and that application of user-models from human-computer interaction will encourage appropriate occupant interaction with building controls and help reduce inadvertent energy consumption.

Guidelines for Linked Data generation and publication: an example in building energy consumption

Linked Data is the key paradigm of the Semantic Web, a new generation of the World Wide Web that promises to bring meaning (semantics) to data. A large number of both public and private organizations have published their data following the Linked Data principles, or have done so with data from other organizations. To this extent, since the generation and publication of Linked Data are intensive engineering processes that require high attention in order to achieve high quality, and since experience has shown that existing general guidelines are not always sufficient to be applied to every domain, this paper presents a set of guidelines for generating and publishing Linked Data in the context of energy consumption in buildings (one aspect of Building Information Models). These guidelines offer a comprehensive description of the tasks to perform, including a list of steps, tools that help in achieving the task, various alternatives for performing the task, and best practices and recommendations. Furthermore, this paper presents a complete example on the generation and publication of Linked Data about energy consumption in buildings, following the presented guidelines, in which the energy consumption data of council sites (e.g., buildings and lights) belonging to the Leeds City Council jurisdiction have been generated and published as Linked Data.

Energy consumption in Illinois public community colleges and universities.

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Recommendations to reduce energy consumption and costs in state facilities, 1993 /

"ILENR/EC-93/01."

The study of the impact of demand controlled ventilation in energy consumption of offices in Portuguese commercial buildings

Indoor Air 2016 - The 14th International Conference of Indoor Air Quality and Climate