Hello, we are trying to keep the Energy Audit in house and make use of the experienced staff of the client we are working with. However, we are having trouble calculating some of the numbers due to the fact that this is a convention center with variable occupancy and operation scenarios.
What type of scenarios and assumptions would we use to capture an Energy Use breakdown in a building like this? Would we calculate the numbers while the building is at its lowest operation state or highest or somewhere in the middle. Its hard to find the 'happy medium' or average day of operation.
Jenny Carney
Vice PresidentWSP
LEEDuser Expert
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October 11, 2010 - 3:38 pm
Do you have a sense of the number of days per year the building tends to be operating at in each category (e.g., low, med, high)?
Ideally you would be able to come up with reasonable annualized savings by having some sense of the typical number of days associated with each main operation state. You could calculate savings for each operational state, and then annualize according to the presumed number of days associated with each state.