MOEEBIUS ENERGY PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK IN BUILDINGS FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
Date
2016-09Keywords
Building-district energy simulation
Building Performance Optimization
Human-Centric Automation
Energy Services Market
Abstract
With the increasing demand for more energy efficient buildings, the construction and energy services industries are faced with the challenge to ensure that the energy performance and savings predicted during energy efficiency measures definition is actually achieved during operation. There is, however, significant evidence to suggest that buildings underperform illustrating a, so called, “performance gap” which is attributed to a variety of causal factors related to both predicted and in-use performance, implying that predictions tend to be unrealistically low whilst actual energy performance is usually unnecessarily high. In turn the successful penetration and effective application of ESCO business models relies on minimizing the gap between actual and predicted building energy performance. The aforementioned gap, though, prohibit the scaled deployment of energy efficiency projects constituting a significant barrier to the development of the ESCO market. The overall problem (performance ...
Type
conferenceObject