[Bldg-sim] Commercial Building Benchmarks Now Available

[Crawley, Drury]

Commercial Building Benchmarks Now Available

DOE, working with three national laboratories, has developed commercial
building benchmark models. These benchmark models are complete
descriptions of buildings for whole building energy analysis using
EnergyPlus <http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/> , a
simulation program. There are 16 building types that represent
approximately 70% of the commercial buildings in the U.S., in each of 16
locations, representing all U.S. climate zones.  Currently new
construction benchmarks are available -- based on ASHRAE Standard 90.1.
The benchmark files are available for:

Building Type Name	 Floor Area ft2	 Number of Floors	
Large office	 498,590	 12	
Medium office	 53,630	 3	
Small office	 5,500	 1	
Warehouse	 52,050	 1	
Stand-alone retail	 24,690	 1	
Strip mall 	22,500	 1	
Primary school	 73,960	 2	
Secondary school	 204,170	 3	
Supermarket	 45,000	 1	
Fast food	 2,500	 1	
Restaurant	 5,500	 1	
Hospital	 241,350	 5	
Outpatient health care	 10,000	 2	
Small Hotel	 43,200	 2	
Large Hotel	 122,116	 6	
Midrise Apartment	 33,600	 4	


Each Benchmark building is comprised of:


*	An EnergyPlus
<http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/>  software input
file (.idf) 
*	An html file showing the results from the EnergyPlus simulation
(.html) 
*	A scorecard that summarizes the inputs and results for each
location (.pdf) 
*	The EnergyPlus TMY2 weather file (.epw). 

The benchmarks can either be downloaded by building type or by location.
The web page for the benchmarks:
http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/highperformance/benchmark.html
 
Commercial Building Team
DOE
<http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/highperformance/new_const.html>  
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