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Benchmarking small power energy consumption in UK office buildings: a review of data published in CIBSE guide F
journal contribution
posted on 2013-01-24, 14:49 authored by Anna Carolina Kossmann de Menezes, Richard BuswellRichard Buswell, Andrew Cripps, Dino BouchlaghemCIBSE’s Guide F is a widely recognised guidance document on energy efficiency in buildings, which includes
energy consumption benchmarks for small power equipment in offices. In its recently published 3rd
edition, existing power demand benchmarks for office equipment were revised to better represent
appliances found in contemporary office buildings. Other key sources of data such as typical operating
hours for equipment, however, have been omitted. This paper compares the benchmarks published in
both the 2nd and 3rd editions of Guide F against a set of measurements of small power loads in a real
UK office building. Load profiles for the monitored equipment are also presented to supplement the
information included in the new Guide F.
Practical application: With the increasing demand for more realistic predictions of operational energy
use in buildings, small power should not be disregarded since it typically accounts for more than 20% of
total energy used in offices. Furthermore, small power loads can have a significant impact on the cooling
loads of a building. This paper reviews existing benchmarks, focusing on the new update to CIBSE Guide F,
comparing available benchmarks against newly gathered monitored data. Detailed load profiles for
individual office equipment are also provided, which can be used by designers to inform better predictions
of small power consumption in office buildings.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
MENEZES, A.C. ... et al., 2013. Benchmarking small power energy consumption in UK office buildings: a review of data published in CIBSE guide F. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 34 (1), pp. 73-86.Publisher
Sage © The Chartered Institution of Building Services EngineersVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2013Notes
This article was published in the journal, Building Services Engineering Research and Technology [Sage © The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143624412465092ISSN
0143-6244Publisher version
Language
- en