Journal article
Low-Investment Energy Retrofit Framework for Small and Medium Office Buildings
Procedia engineering, v 145, pp 172-179
2016
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
Small and medium office buildings consume a significant parcel of the U.S. building stock energy consumption. Still, owners lack resources and experience to conduct detailed energy audits and retrofit analysis. We present an eight-steps framework for an energy retrofit assessment in small and medium office buildings. Through a bottom-up approach and a web-based retrofit toolkit tested on a case study in Arizona, this methodology was able to save about 50% of the total energy consumed by the case study building, depending on the adopted measures and invested capital. While the case study presented is a deep energy retrofit, the proposed framework is effective in guiding the decision-making process that precedes any energy retrofit, deep or light.
Metrics
1 Record Views
Details
- Title
- Low-Investment Energy Retrofit Framework for Small and Medium Office Buildings
- Creators
- Fernanda Cruz Rios - Arizona State UniversityKristen Parrish - Arizona State UniversityWai K. Chong - Arizona State University
- Publication Details
- Procedia engineering, v 145, pp 172-179
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Number of pages
- 8
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000387531600022
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84999652734
- Other Identifier
- 991022188574304721
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
Source: SDGs in the Output
InCites Highlights
Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:
- Web of Science research areas
- Construction & Building Technology
- Engineering, Civil