TY - GEN
T1 - Commercial buildings energy performance within context
T2 - 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2015
AU - Lazarova-Molnar, Sanja
AU - Kjárgaard, Mikkel Baun
AU - Shaker, Hamid Reza
AU - Jørgensen, Bo Nørregaard
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Existing commercial buildings represent a challenge in the energy efficiency domain. Energy efficiency of a building, very often equalized to a building's performance should not be observed as a standalone issue. For commercial buildings, energy efficiency needs to be observed and assessed within the context of performance of resident businesses. We examine both business performance and energy performance and how they relate to one another to conclude that building occupants, who are also employees, hold the key to optimizing both metrics in one of the most cost-efficient ways. Finally, the goal of our contribution is twofold: 1) to re-scope the concept of building performance to and show the importance to consider, handin-hand, both energy performance and performance of resident businesses, and 2) re-state the importance of the potential that lies in the active involvement of building occupants in optimizing overall building performance.
AB - Existing commercial buildings represent a challenge in the energy efficiency domain. Energy efficiency of a building, very often equalized to a building's performance should not be observed as a standalone issue. For commercial buildings, energy efficiency needs to be observed and assessed within the context of performance of resident businesses. We examine both business performance and energy performance and how they relate to one another to conclude that building occupants, who are also employees, hold the key to optimizing both metrics in one of the most cost-efficient ways. Finally, the goal of our contribution is twofold: 1) to re-scope the concept of building performance to and show the importance to consider, handin-hand, both energy performance and performance of resident businesses, and 2) re-state the importance of the potential that lies in the active involvement of building occupants in optimizing overall building performance.
KW - Building performance
KW - Commercial buildings
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Human factors
KW - Occupants involvement
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U2 - 10.5220/0005495203060312
DO - 10.5220/0005495203060312
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84938788899
T3 - SMARTGREENS 2015 - 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, Proceedings
SP - 306
EP - 312
BT - SMARTGREENS 2015 - 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, Proceedings
A2 - Helfert, Markus
A2 - Krempels, Karl-Heinz
A2 - Donnellan, Brian
A2 - Klein, Cornel
PB - SciTePress
Y2 - 20 May 2015 through 22 May 2015
ER -