Adanced energy design guide for small office buildings
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Posting Date | 9 July 2009Publication Date | 2008
Country | North America
Geographic Coverage | National
Theme | Lighting, Building envelope (walls, windows,...), Energy efficiency technologies and materials, Building operation, monitoring, energy management, Public and non residential buildings, Heating, domestic hot water, Air conditioning, cooling, ventilation, air infiltration
Type of publication | Guide
Publisher | ASHRAE
Number pages | 107
Submitted by François Durier (CETIAT )
Source Languages | English
Adanced energy design guide for small office buildings
This document is intended to provide a simple approach for contractors and designers who create small office buildings in the USA. Application of the recommendations in the guide should result in 30% energy savings when compared to same buildings designed to the minimum requirements of American ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999. To quantify the expected energy savings, the authors selected potential envelope, lighting, HVAC, and service water heating energy-saving measures for analysis. These included products that were deemed to be both practical and commercially available. Each set of measures was simulated using an hour-by-hour building energy analysis computer program for two small office prototypes in representative cities in various climates of the USA. Simulations were run for reference buildings (buildings designed to Standard 90.1-1999 criteria) compared to buildings built using recommendations contained in this guide to determine that the expected 30% savings target was achieved. This guide covers small office buildings up to 20,000 ft2 (1858 m2) that use unitary heating and air-conditioning equipment. Buildings of this size with these HVAC system configurations represent a large fraction of commercial office space in the United States. The guide features examples of energy efficient buildings appropriate for each climate zone in the USA.
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