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End-use demand in commercial office buildings: case-study and modelling recommendations

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posted on 2014-10-02, 12:56 authored by Eoghan McKenna, Nicholas Doylend, Murray Thomson
While considerable progress has been made on developing high-resolution stochastic models of electricity demand for the domestic sector, non-domestic models remain relatively undeveloped. This paper provides general recommendations about how such models might be structured for commercial offices, based on detailed analysis of high-resolution end-use demand data for a single multi-tenanted office building. The results indicate that modelling of commercial office buildings could be viewed as analogous to modelling a group of dwellings with partial residency (to represent individual office units within the building), with communal heating and communal spaces, a limited number of work related appliances, and occupant activities restricted to those related to work.

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This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK, within the Top and Tail of Energy Networks project (EP/I031707/1).

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Research Unit

  • Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST)

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5th BauSim International Building Performance Simulation Association Conference

Pages

67 - 74

Citation

MCKENNA, E., DOYLEND, N. and THOMSON, M., 2014. End-use demand in commercial office buildings: case-study and modelling recommendations. IN: Proceedings of the 5th BauSim International Building Performance Simulation Association Conference - Human-centred building(s), Aachen, Germany, 22-24 September 2014, pp. 67 - 74.

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© IBPSA

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

This is a conference paper.

Language

  • en

Location

Aachen, Germany

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