CIBSE's Energy Benchmarking Tool is an online platform which uses energy data as it becomes available to provide relevant and reliable benchmarks that represent the current trends of energy use in buildings..
Benchmarking of energy consumption internally (historical / trend analysis) and externally (across similar industries) are two powerful tools for performance assessment and logical evolution of avenues for improvement..
When applied to building energy use, benchmarking serves as a mechanism to measure energy performance of a single building over time, relative to other similar buildings, or to modeled simulations of a reference building built to a specific standard (such as an energy code)..
An energy benchmark report measures the energy used per square foot by your building and compares the energy-use intensity of your building against similar-use buildings (i.e. retail, office, etc.) adjusted for business operations (i.e. hours of operation, number of employees, etc.).
Energy performance ratings are a critical management tool for evaluating how efficiently a building is using energy compared to similar buildings nationwide.
Buildings with superior performance are eligible to earn EPA recognition.
It is important to account for the datasets necessary for benchmarking.
This could include:
Building primary use (school, firehouse, dormitory, etc.) is a much more reliable energy benchmarking metric for a peer group.
Once you have grouped similar facilities together for benchmarking, the next step is to compare them with each other using the most revealing energy metrics.
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