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State-based Modeling of Buildings and Facilities
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2011)
Research on energy efficiency of today's buildings focuses on the monitoring of a building's behavior while in operation. But without a formalized description of the data measured, including their correlations and in ...
Analysis Methodology for Large Organizations' Investments in Energy Retrofit of Buildings
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2011)
This paper presents a formal methodology that supports large organizations' investments in energy retrofit of buildings. The methodology is a scalable modeling approach based on normative models and Bayesian calibration. ...
Energey Savings and Persistence from an Energy Services Performance Contract at an Army Base
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2011)
This paper examined persistence of energy savings from the application of the Monitoring andVerification (M&V) for the Fort Hood EnergyServices Performance Contract (ESPC). The first and second ESPC Delivery Orders (DO) ...
Cooling Energy Demand Evaluation by Meansof Regression Models Obtained From Dynamic Simulations
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2011)
The forecast of the energy heating/cooling demand would be a good indicator for the choice between different conception solutions according to the building characteristics and the local climate. A previous study (Catalina ...
Heat Balance Analysis to Validate the Heat Dissipation Rate of a Man-Made Lake as a Heat Rejection
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2011)
Power plants were originally designed to use convenient bodies of water and cooling towers due to unavailability of these sources. Though the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has been pushing regulation that requires ...
Simulation as a Tool to Develop Guidelines of Envelope Design of a Typical Office Building in Egypt
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2011)
This paper describes the use of building performance simulation software in order to develop guidelines for designing energy-efficient office building.
In Egypt energy codes for all building types are being under development. ...
Impacts of Some Building Design Parameters on Heat Pump Applications
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2011)
One of the most important properties of a sustainable building is to provide thermal comfort conditions for users with a minimum heating and cooling energy consumption. Therefore, primary design parameters of building ...
The Sustainable Building-Accelerator
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2011)
A method and a tool have been developed to assist the designers from the beginning of the design phase. The costs and benefits for different design options are calculated using Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and ...
A Tale of Two Buildings: Achieving Energy Efficiency
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2011)
This presentation will discuss a 30% reduction in Natural Use that was achieved by benchmarking two very similar buildings within a commercial property management portfolio. The Existing Building Commissioning (EB Cx) 4 ...
The Persistence of Retro-commissioning Savings in Ten University Buildings
(Energy Systems Laboratory, 2011-10-01)
A study was performed to evaluate how well energy savings persisted over time in ten university buildings that underwent retro-commissioning in 1996. Total annualized savings for all buildings in 1997 were 45(±2)% for ...