needed to operate their buildings to lower the ... MWh). The survey also covered 129,000 healthcare facilities with a total square footage of 3.16 billion ft2.
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ACCURATE SIMULATION OF METERED ELECTRICITY USAGE OF A LEED® CERTIFIED CANCER INSTITUTE
Importance of Building energy simulation
Building energy simulation history
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Healthcare as a major energy consumer
Parameters impact on accuracy
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Equipment Load
Temperature and humidity set-points
Equipment and occupancy Schedules
Table 2, Table 3. Table 1 Indoor Design Conditions required by NIH Design Manual
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Table 2 Indoor Design Conditions used for simulating laboratory zones
Table 3 Indoor Design Conditions used for simulating therapy and treatment zones (program defaults)
Simulation results
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Design Requirements Manual for Biomedical Laboratories and Animal Research Facilities Building and Environment 33 Energy and Buildings 53,
The Computer Program for Heating and Cooling Loads in Buildings
Energy and Buildings 40,
Solar Energy Engineering 125, DOE2: A New State-of the-Art Computer Program for Energy Utilization Analysis of Buildings
CAL-ERDA Program Manual ESP - a Building and Plant Energy Simulation System Residential Energy Simulator
Rock Products
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Laboratories for the 21st Century: An Introduction to Low-Energy Design
, Laboratories for the 21st Century: Laboratory Modelling Guideline using ASHRAE 90.1-2007 Appendix G
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Figure 1: Annual electric usage in Cancer Institute per panelboard. Circled bars represent panelboards for the mechanical system.
Figure 2: The default occupancy schedule that DesignBuilder uses.
Figure 3: The occupancy schedule suggested by the EPA Labs for the 21s century project
Figure 4: A comparison between the actual electric energy used by the Cancer Institute (Black) and the electric usage obtained from simulated model using both default (Dark Grey) and modified values for parameters (Light Grey).
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