Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) and Its Comparison with Turkey Applications

Boydak, Ozlem

doi:10.18178/jocet.2017.5.1.346

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“…However, the technicians point out a series of factors that hinder the application of RETs in existing university buildings. One is the high energy demand they have, with their peak and valley consumption hours [95][96][97][98], and its relationship with the amount of energy produced; the availability of the energy resource; and the performance of renewable energy production systems, both electrical and thermal [25,42]. They also mention that the reliability of these technologies in supplying energy during peak periods depends on uncontrollable weather factors [32,99].…”

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Exploring the Critical Barriers to the Implementation of Renewable Technologies in Existing University Buildings

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For more than a decade, the European Union has been implementing an ambitious energy policy focused on reducing CO2 emissions, increasing the use of renewable energy and improving energy efficiency. This paper investigates the factors that hinder the application of renewable energy technologies (RETs) in existing university buildings in Spain and Portugal. Following a qualitative methodology, 33 technicians working in the infrastructure management offices of 24 universities have been interviewed. The factors identified have been classified into economic-financial, administrative and legislative barriers, architectural, urban planning, technological, networking, social acceptance, institutional and others. It is concluded that there have not been sufficient economic incentives to carry out RETs projects in this type of building. Conditioning factors can act individually or jointly, generating a greater effect. Most participants consider that there are no social acceptance barriers. Knowledge of these determinants can facilitate actions that help implement this technology on university campuses in both countries.

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Outcome‐based ventilation: A framework for assessing performance, health, and energy impacts to inform office building ventilation decisions

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This article presents an outcome-based ventilation (OBV) framework, which combines competing ventilation impacts into a monetized loss function ($/occ/h) used to inform ventilation rate decisions. The OBV framework, developed for U.S. offices, considers six outcomes of increasing ventilation: profitable outcomes realized from improvements in occupant work performance and sick leave absenteeism; health outcomes from occupant exposure to outdoor fine particles and ozone; and energy outcomes from electricity and natural gas usage. We used the literature to set low, medium, and high reference values for OBV loss function parameters, and evaluated the framework and outcome-based ventilation rates using a simulated U.S. office stock dataset and a case study in New York City. With parameters for all outcomes set at medium values derived from literature-based central estimates, higher ventilation rates' profitable benefits dominated negative health and energy impacts, and the OBV framework suggested ventilation should be ≥45 L/s/occ, much higher than the baseline ~8.5 L/s/occ rate prescribed by ASHRAE 62.1. Only when combining very low parameter estimates for profitable impacts with very high ones for health and energy impacts were all outcomes on the same order. Even then, however, outcome-based ventilation rates were often twice the baseline rate or more.

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Green Health: Making Green Healthcare Using Reinforcement Learning in Fog-assisted Cloud Environment

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Jena³

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Green Engineering and Technology

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Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) and Its Comparison with Turkey Applications

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Exploring the Critical Barriers to the Implementation of Renewable Technologies in Existing University Buildings

Exploring the Critical Barriers to the Implementation of Renewable Technologies in Existing University Buildings

Outcome‐based ventilation: A framework for assessing performance, health, and energy impacts to inform office building ventilation decisions

Green Health: Making Green Healthcare Using Reinforcement Learning in Fog-assisted Cloud Environment

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