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Title: Role of Modeling When Designing for Absolute Energy Use Intensity Requirements in a Design-Build Framework: Preprint

Abstract

The Research Support Facility was designed to use half the energy of an equivalent minimally code-compliant building, and to produce as much renewable energy as it consumes on an annual basis. These energy goals and their substantiation through simulation were explicitly included in the project's fixed firm price design-build contract. The energy model had to be continuously updated during thedesign process and to match the final building as-built to the greatest degree possible. Computer modeling played a key role throughout the design process and in verifying that the contractual energy goals would be met within the specified budget. The main tool was a whole building energy simulation program. Other models were used to provide more detail or to complement the whole buildingsimulation tool. Results from these specialized models were fed back into the main whole building simulation tool to provide the most accurate possible inputs for annual simulations. This paper will detail the models used in the design process and how they informed important program and design decisions on the path from preliminary design to the completed building.

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Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1009256
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-5500-49067
TRN: US201106%%492
DOE Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at the ASHRAE Winter Conference, 29 January - 2 February 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; COMPUTERS; DESIGN; ENERGY MODELS; PRICES; SIMULATION; Research Support Facility (RSF); RSF; computer simulations; energy simulation program

Citation Formats

Hirsch, A, Pless, S, Guglielmetti, R, Torcellini, P A, Okada, D, and Antia, P. Role of Modeling When Designing for Absolute Energy Use Intensity Requirements in a Design-Build Framework: Preprint. United States: N. p., 2011. Web.
Hirsch, A, Pless, S, Guglielmetti, R, Torcellini, P A, Okada, D, & Antia, P. Role of Modeling When Designing for Absolute Energy Use Intensity Requirements in a Design-Build Framework: Preprint. United States.
Hirsch, A, Pless, S, Guglielmetti, R, Torcellini, P A, Okada, D, and Antia, P. 2011. "Role of Modeling When Designing for Absolute Energy Use Intensity Requirements in a Design-Build Framework: Preprint". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1009256.
@article{osti_1009256,
title = {Role of Modeling When Designing for Absolute Energy Use Intensity Requirements in a Design-Build Framework: Preprint},
author = {Hirsch, A and Pless, S and Guglielmetti, R and Torcellini, P A and Okada, D and Antia, P},
abstractNote = {The Research Support Facility was designed to use half the energy of an equivalent minimally code-compliant building, and to produce as much renewable energy as it consumes on an annual basis. These energy goals and their substantiation through simulation were explicitly included in the project's fixed firm price design-build contract. The energy model had to be continuously updated during thedesign process and to match the final building as-built to the greatest degree possible. Computer modeling played a key role throughout the design process and in verifying that the contractual energy goals would be met within the specified budget. The main tool was a whole building energy simulation program. Other models were used to provide more detail or to complement the whole buildingsimulation tool. Results from these specialized models were fed back into the main whole building simulation tool to provide the most accurate possible inputs for annual simulations. This paper will detail the models used in the design process and how they informed important program and design decisions on the path from preliminary design to the completed building.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2011},
month = {Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2011}
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