[Bldg-sim] Commercial building baseline energy use/techs for Alaska

[Justin Spencer]

Hey Kristin,
Thanks for the link and caveats.  Any idea how these things were calibrated?


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Field, Kristin <Kristin.Field at nrel.gov>wrote:

>  Bob,
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> This will not entirely cover what you want, but it may give you a good
> start.  DOE has published benchmark energy models and results for 16
> different types of commercial buildings in 16 ASHRAE 90.1-2004 climate zones
> here:
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> http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/commercial_initiative/new_construction.html
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> If you prefer not to dive into the energy models themselves, you can get
> most of what you would need to know about them in the “scorecard”
> spreadsheets.  Each scorecard lists the inputs and results for one
> particular building type across all the climate zones.  Tip - to get the
> scorecard files, you will need to download the zip files by building type,
> not climate zone.  It looks like Alaska has climate zones 7 and 8.  Climate
> zone 7 was simulated using the TMY2 Duluth, MN weather file, and climate
> zone 8 was simulated using the TMY2 Fairbanks, AK weather file.
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> These are considered to be baseline/benchmark buildings representative of a
> particular commercial building type.  They may help you by:
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> ·         Showing the difference in energy consumption in climates 7 and 8
> versus the other climate zones – both total and broken down by end-use and
> fuel type
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> ·         Showing how the above changes depending on building type
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> ·         Showing the variation in auto-sized equipment between climate
> zones and building types
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> One big caveat – for a more apples-to-apples comparison, system types were
> not varied across climate zones according to local practices.  If you want
> to know what system types are more common in Alaska vs. another region,
> these models will not provide you with that information.  They are
> simulations intended to represent average (new construction) buildings, but
> not any one particular real building.
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> To get more of a statistical representation of what’s out there, you might
> try the CBECS dataset:
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> http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cbecs/
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> Good luck!
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> *********************************************************
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> Kristin M. Field
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> Engineer II - Mechanical
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> Commercial Buildings Group
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> Electricity, Resources, and Building Systems Integration Center
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> National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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> *From:* bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
> bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *Ramirez, Bob
> *Sent:* Friday, January 29, 2010 10:59 AM
> *To:* BldgSim Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Bldg-sim] Commercial building baseline energy use/techs for
> Alaska
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> Hello all.  I am looking for baseline information on commercial building
> energy use, construction and technologies for Alaska.
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> If you are aware of any such studies, I would be very grateful if you can
> tell me where to find them.
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> Thanks in advance for your assistance!
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> Regards,
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> Bob
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> *Bob Ramírez, P.E.*
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