Accelerating the energy retrofit of commercial buildings using a database of energy efficiency performance

Energy

Volumn 90, Issue , 2015, Pages 738-747

  Lee, Sang Hoon ^a   Hong, Tianzhen ^a   Piette, Mary Ann ^a   Sawaya, Geof ^b   Chen, Yixing ^a   Taylor Lange, Sarah C ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Building simulation; Energy conservation measure; Energy modeling; EnergyPlus; High performance computing; Retrofit

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; BUILDINGS; CLIMATE MODELS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HISTORIC PRESERVATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; QUERY PROCESSING; RETROFITTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BUILDING SIMULATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION MEASURES; ENERGY MODEL; ENERGYPLUS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; RETROFIT;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

BUILDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939630652     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.07.107     Document Type: Article

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