Energy Star classifications

Hi Maria, Unfortunately no. The rating that you would get would just not be the same. You could of course do it for fun! My suggestion would be to compare it to the other buildings on your campus or reach out to Energy Star and get on the higher education working group for additional resources and potentially compare to others.

Hi Jeff, I am in the same situation as Maria. Can you tell a little more about the Higher Ed working group?

Hi Maria and George, I am working on a project that sounds very similar - a building that is exclusively classrooms and lecture halls with no administrative offices or related space uses at all. Using the 'office' space type in Energy Star is not appropriate for a building of this sort, and CBECS currently provides a classroom EUI figure that is extremely low (enough so as to be unreasonable for the buildings we have sought to compare it to), possibly because it is based largely on K-12 classrooms. The good news is that my project has developed and proposed a solution to GBCI that we are very optimistic about and GBCI is actively working with us to evaluate the proposal. We are hoping they will release a public interpretation on the topic later this year and I will be sure to post an update on this forum. If you just can't wait, email me directly and I'll share the gory details. Dan