Evaluation of Building Energy Performance Rating Protocols

摘要

Building energy performance rating protocols provide a way to compare the energy consumption of one building with those of other similar buildings. A search found 47 protocols for commercial buildings, five of which were chosen for in-depth evaluation in this paper. The most common methodology used by the protocols chosen was to compare the building to a database of surveyed buildings. The comparison could be as simple as a graphical comparison of energy intensity, or it could be a complex procedure to compute an index. To compare the selected protocols, data on 29 buildings were gathered using a short survey. While some exceptionally good buildings are consistently rated well across different rating methods, most buildings could be considered "good" by some rating methods but not others.