ACEEE 2008 Summer Study Informal Sessions

Improving communication and benchmarking of building energy and carbon performance

Bill Bordass, The Usable Buildings Trust, UK
Paul Mathew, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Martha Brook, California Energy Commission

The heightened interest in building energy performance has exposed problems with reporting and benchmarking, with conventions which may no longer suit current needs, and continuing major differences between regulatory expectations, design estimates, modelling results, and actual performance in-use. Further complications arise from mismatches between building and organisational reporting, e.g. for carbon accounting and trading. The session will consider how communication of energy and carbon performance could be improved, how reporting errors could be reduced, and how benchmarking could be made more action-oriented. Suitable reporting and benchmarking systems could also help teams to manage client and design intent through design, specification, construction and commissioning and on into operations.

2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry

Informal Sessions Description