Developing energy consumption benchmarks for buildings: Bank branches in Brazil

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 82, Issue , 2014, Pages 82-91

  Borgstein, Edward H ^a   Lamberts, Roberto ^b  

^a Mitsidi Projetos   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bank branches; Climate correction; Energy benchmarking; Energy labelling; National energy benchmarks

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LABELS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BANK BRANCHES; COOLING (HEATING) DEGREE HOUR; DEVELOPING ECONOMIES; ENERGY BENCHMARKING; ENERGY BENCHMARKS; ENERGY LABELLING; SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION; ENERGY LABELING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84905376513     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.07.028     Document Type: Article

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