A review of existing building benchmarks and the development of a set of reference office buildings for England and Wales

Shahrestani, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8741-0912, Yao, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4269-7224 and Cook, G. K. (2014) A review of existing building benchmarks and the development of a set of reference office buildings for England and Wales. Intelligent Buildings International Journal, 6 (1). pp. 41-64. ISSN 1750-8975 doi: 10.1080/17508975.2013.828586

Abstract/Summary

The modern built environment has become more complex in terms of building types, environmental systems and use profiles. This complexity causes difficulties in terms of optimising buildings energy design. In this circumstance, introducing a set of prototype reference buildings, or so called benchmark buildings, that are able to represent all or majority parts of the UK building stock may be useful for the examination of the impact of national energy policies on building energy consumption. This study proposes a set of reference office buildings for England and Wales based on the information collected from the Non-Domestic Building Stock (NDBS) project and an intensive review of the existing building benchmarks. The proposed building benchmark comprises 10 prototypical reference buildings, which in relation to built form and size, represent 95% of office buildings in England and Wales. This building benchmark provides a platform for those involved in building energy simulations to evaluate energy-efficiency measures and for policy-makers to assess the influence of different building energy policies.

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URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/36797
Item Type	Article
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of the Built Environment > Energy and Environmental Engineering group
Uncontrolled Keywords	building benchmark, building energy policy, building energy simulation, reference office building
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
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