Development and testing of an Automated Building Commissioning Analysis Tool (ABCAT)

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 607-617

  Bynum, John D ^a   Claridge, David E ^a   Curtin, Jonathan M ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Building energy simulation; Fault detection and diagnostics (FDD); HVAC; Retrocommissioning

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; BUILDING COMMISSIONING; BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; BUILDING LEVELS; COMMERCIAL BUILDING; COMPONENT LEVELS; ENERGY COST; EXCESS ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS; HVAC; PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; RETROCOMMISSIONING; TEST CASE; TESTING RESULTS; TOPDOWN; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84870577507     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.08.038     Document Type: Article

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