[Bldg-sim] CBECS 99 Available

[Jason Glazer]

The 1999 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey 
(CBECS) Commercial Building Characteristics were released 
yesterday.  In case you aren't aware of this resource, it 
is the largest most comprehensive national survey of 
commercial buildings in the U.S. that I know of at over 
5000 buildings. It provides good information if you are 
trying to find out what the average size of a particular 
type of building or the fraction of floorspace nationally 
that uses chillers, etc.  DOE does the survey every three 
or four years so it has history.  Even better, the detailed 
building by building survey data is available if you want 
to do your own number crunching.  I have used it to create 
prototypical building descriptions in DOE-2 to perform a 
national assessment of the energy impact of ASHRAE 90.1-
1999.  

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cbecs/char99/intro.html

The characteristics tables are followed a several months 
later by energy consumption statistics on the same set of 
buildings.

If anyone can think of other resources people use when 
putting together building simulation inputs, go ahead and 
share them with the group.

Jason
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