This project addresses questions frequently asked by building owners and managers about performance metrics and benchmarking, such as:

• How does my building compare with others?
• How can I track key information from design into construction, commissioning, and operations to ensure that my building performs as expected?
• Which data should I track?

Tasks:

Develop a web-based tool for benchmarking whole building energy for California commercial buildings.

Develop a prototype tool that can demonstrate the process of specifying, tracking, and visualizing building performance objectives and their associated metric data across the life cycle of a building.

Evaluate alternative methods to provide energy bill payers with useful metrics that will encourage comparison of their energy use with that of others.

Project Team:

Mary Ann Piette, Rob Hitchcock (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Kristin Heinemeier (Honeywell)

Robert Sonderegger and Afshin Afshari (Silicon Energy)

Les Norford (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)