Buildings must continuously monitor and improve their performance in order to transitionto an energy efficient economy. It is important to improve the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of buildings by measuring the energy performance against established benchmarks, and recognize and reward exemplary buildings.Energy benchmarking is a process of creating a whole building energy consumption profile of a group of buildings characterized by their primary use, construction, physical, geographic, and operating characteristics. The rating is derived by assigning a score to the performance differential between the building under consideration and a benchmarked building in relation to all other buildings in the stock.
ECObench Tool is a web-based tool that gathers inputs from the user to measure the performance of a building against its peers available in the database. It displays the benchmarking result in graphic as well as tabular fashion for the convenience of the user. A report that may be submitted to demonstrate the building’s performance can be generated. Key features of the tool are:
- Can be used with minimal learning involved
- Is available in a public domain for easy access to the users
- Comprises of the following three utilities:
• Energy Benchmarking
• Data Query
• Data Submission
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