Advances in building data management for building performance standards using the SEED platform

Reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment is a critical step in achieving emission goals to mitigate climate change impacts. Local, federal, and international jurisdictions are deploying several methods to reduce energy and emissions such as voluntary and mand...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Long, Katherine Fleming, Alex Swindler, Andrew Held, Robin Mitchell, Gregor P. Henze
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:Developments in the Built Environment
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666165924002114
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description Reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment is a critical step in achieving emission goals to mitigate climate change impacts. Local, federal, and international jurisdictions are deploying several methods to reduce energy and emissions such as voluntary and mandatory benchmarking and building performance standards, requiring building owners to reach energy and emission targets.Jurisdictions leveraging benchmarking and building performance standards require knowledge of the buildings covered; which is a large task due to staffing constraints, limited information on building characteristics and tax parcel data, and the need for advanced data management techniques to align datasets. This paper describes an open-source platform's recent advances to create consistent taxonomies, identify erroneous data, enable auditability, and track building performance. The paper concludes with two use cases on how the platform has been used by jurisdictions.
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spelling doaj-art-ba64f65fe0434506aedf48caba1a9f132025-08-20T01:58:22ZengElsevierDevelopments in the Built Environment2666-16592024-12-012010053010.1016/j.dibe.2024.100530Advances in building data management for building performance standards using the SEED platformNicholas Long0Katherine Fleming1Alex Swindler2Andrew Held3Robin Mitchell4Gregor P. Henze5National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA; Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; Corresponding author. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USANational Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USANational Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USADepartment of Energy and Environment, Washington, DC, USALawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USACivil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USAReducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment is a critical step in achieving emission goals to mitigate climate change impacts. Local, federal, and international jurisdictions are deploying several methods to reduce energy and emissions such as voluntary and mandatory benchmarking and building performance standards, requiring building owners to reach energy and emission targets.Jurisdictions leveraging benchmarking and building performance standards require knowledge of the buildings covered; which is a large task due to staffing constraints, limited information on building characteristics and tax parcel data, and the need for advanced data management techniques to align datasets. This paper describes an open-source platform's recent advances to create consistent taxonomies, identify erroneous data, enable auditability, and track building performance. The paper concludes with two use cases on how the platform has been used by jurisdictions.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666165924002114Building data managementBuilding benchmarkingBuilding performance standardsCase study
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Advances in building data management for building performance standards using the SEED platform
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Building data management
Building benchmarking
Building performance standards
Case study
title Advances in building data management for building performance standards using the SEED platform
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title_short Advances in building data management for building performance standards using the SEED platform
title_sort advances in building data management for building performance standards using the seed platform
topic Building data management
Building benchmarking
Building performance standards
Case study
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666165924002114
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