Development of whole-building energy performance models as benchmarks for retrofit projects

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 838-849

  Karaguzel, Omer Tugrul ^a   Lam, Khee Poh ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING PROCESS; BENCHMARKING TECHNIQUES; BUILDING ENVELOPES; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; CURRENT ENERGY; DATA SOURCE; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; ENERGY MODEL; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; INFORMATION FLOWS; INPUT DATAS; OPTIMAL ENERGY; PRIORITIZATION; REGRESSION-BASED MODEL; RETROFIT DESIGN; RETROFIT PROJECT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; RETROFITTING;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84858032560     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2011.6147810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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