Missed Opportunities in Building Energy Performance Assessment
Buildings continue to be important contributors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite the continued increase in stringency of energy and emissions codes and standards worldwide to address energy use in buildings. The stringency is limited by the available technology and design, and achie...
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| author | Minu Agarwal Parag Cameron-Rastogi Giuseppe Peronato Georgios Mavromatidis |
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| description | Buildings continue to be important contributors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite the continued increase in stringency of energy and emissions codes and standards worldwide to address energy use in buildings. The stringency is limited by the available technology and design, and achieving even better performance may require fundamental changes in how the design and operation of buildings is regulated. In this paper we present limitations in current building energy performance assessment methods that, if addressed, could unlock unrealized energy saving potential in building projects: (a) split-incentives in multi-tenant buildings, (b) evaluation of performance using overly-long timescales, for example, yearly, (c) incorrect normalization of energy use over diverse uses and occupancy, and (d) ignoring robustness when rewarding efficiency. We discuss these issues through the lens of data availability and discuss ways of addressing them through better monitoring and a shift in accounting methods of building energy use. The solutions discussed complement the increasing use of smart meters and sensors in buildings. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-198e2a6d5e9243c785bef8fc7ca27ca42025-08-20T02:19:18ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Sustainable Real Estate1949-82761949-82842024-12-0116110.1080/19498276.2024.2387486Missed Opportunities in Building Energy Performance AssessmentMinu Agarwal0Parag Cameron-Rastogi1Giuseppe Peronato2Georgios Mavromatidis3Faculty of Technology, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, IndiaGRESB B.V., Glasgow, United KingdomEnergy Informatics Group, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, SwitzerlandGroup for Sustainability and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandBuildings continue to be important contributors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite the continued increase in stringency of energy and emissions codes and standards worldwide to address energy use in buildings. The stringency is limited by the available technology and design, and achieving even better performance may require fundamental changes in how the design and operation of buildings is regulated. In this paper we present limitations in current building energy performance assessment methods that, if addressed, could unlock unrealized energy saving potential in building projects: (a) split-incentives in multi-tenant buildings, (b) evaluation of performance using overly-long timescales, for example, yearly, (c) incorrect normalization of energy use over diverse uses and occupancy, and (d) ignoring robustness when rewarding efficiency. We discuss these issues through the lens of data availability and discuss ways of addressing them through better monitoring and a shift in accounting methods of building energy use. The solutions discussed complement the increasing use of smart meters and sensors in buildings.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/19498276.2024.2387486Building energy standardsbuilding energy use evaluationbuilding energy userobustness |
| spellingShingle | Minu Agarwal Parag Cameron-Rastogi Giuseppe Peronato Georgios Mavromatidis Missed Opportunities in Building Energy Performance Assessment Journal of Sustainable Real Estate Building energy standards building energy use evaluation building energy use robustness |
| title | Missed Opportunities in Building Energy Performance Assessment |
| title_full | Missed Opportunities in Building Energy Performance Assessment |
| title_fullStr | Missed Opportunities in Building Energy Performance Assessment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Missed Opportunities in Building Energy Performance Assessment |
| title_short | Missed Opportunities in Building Energy Performance Assessment |
| title_sort | missed opportunities in building energy performance assessment |
| topic | Building energy standards building energy use evaluation building energy use robustness |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/19498276.2024.2387486 |
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