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Frontiers in Energy >> 2014, Volume 8, Issue 3 doi: 10.1007/s11708-014-0328-4

Method for rating energy performance of public buildings

1. School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.2. Tianjin Vanke Real Estate Co. Ltd., Tianjin 300141, China.3. Tianjin University Research Institute of Architectural Design & Urban Planning, Tianjin 300072, China

Available online: 2014-09-09
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This paper discussed a comparative study of several state-of-art methods for determining building energy consumption benchmark. A new approach, which combined the idea of “building benchmark” and “operational benchmark” in its rating system, was proposed. A case study was conducted which applied the proposed approach to benchmarking an existing office building in Tianjin. Besides, the calculation of benchmarks of the reference building model and real building model using the rating method in eQUEST was also considered. Furthermore, the simulation results of the reference building model were taken as the baseline to divide real office buildings into different energy performance grades.

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