Using climate classification to evaluate building energy performance

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1797-1801

  Lee, Wen Shing ^a   Kung, Chung Kuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Climate classification; Cluster analysis; Data envelopment analysis; Energy management

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MANAGEMENT; OFFICE BUILDINGS; RAIN; RATING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CONDITION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; ENERGY SAVING; IN-BUILDINGS; MANAGEMENT EFFICIENCY; MINIMUM ENERGY; RESEARCH RESULTS; SCALE FACTOR; SPECIFIC INFORMATION;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

BENCHMARKING; BUILDING; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY USE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79952195853     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2010.12.034     Document Type: Article

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