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Title: Best Practices Guide for High-Performance Indian Office Buildings

Abstract

This document provides best practice guidance and energy- efficiency recommendations for the design, construction, and operation of high-­performance office buildings in India. Through a discussion of learnings from exemplary projects and inputs from experts, it provides recommendations that can potentially help achieve (1) enhanced working environments, (2) economic construction/faster payback, (3) reduced operating costs, and (4) reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It also provides ambitious (but achievable) energy performance benchmarks, both as adopted targets during building modeling (design phase) and during measurement and verification (operations phase). These benchmarks have been derived from a set of representative best-in-class office buildings in India. The best practices strategies presented in this guide would ideally help in delivering high-­performance in terms of a triad—of energy efficiency, cost efficiency, and occupant comfort and well-­being. These best practices strategies and metrics should be normalized—that is, corrected to account for building characteristics, diversity of operations, weather, and materials and construction methods.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1171533
Report Number(s):
LBNL-6230E
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION

Citation Formats

Singh, Reshma, Sartor, Dale, and Ghatikar, Girish. Best Practices Guide for High-Performance Indian Office Buildings. United States: N. p., 2013. Web. doi:10.2172/1171533.
Singh, Reshma, Sartor, Dale, & Ghatikar, Girish. Best Practices Guide for High-Performance Indian Office Buildings. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1171533
Singh, Reshma, Sartor, Dale, and Ghatikar, Girish. 2013. "Best Practices Guide for High-Performance Indian Office Buildings". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1171533. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1171533.
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