Prototype Courthouse Building Energy Model: Building and System Characteristics

Technical Report · Thu Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1435336· OSTI ID:1435336

Malhotra, Mini ^[1]; New, Joshua Ryan ^[1]; Im, Piljae ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

As part of the Department of Energy’s support of ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 and the International Energy Conservation Code, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory apply a suite of prototype buildings covering 80% of the commercial building floor area in the United States for new construction. Efforts have begun to cover 90% of the commercial building floor area in the United States by developing prototype models for additional building types that include supermarket, laboratory, place of worship, public order and safety, and public assembly. “Courthouse” is a subcategory under the “Public Order and Safety” building type category defined by the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS); other subcategories include police station, fire station, and detention and correctional facilities (i.e., jail, reformatory, or penitentiary). Oak Ridge National Laboratory used building design guides, databases, and documented courthouse projects, supplemented by personal communication with courthouse facility planning and design experts, to systematically conduct research on the courthouse building and system characteristics. This report documents this research and reports the building and system characteristics necessary for developing a Courthouse prototype building energy model to be included in the Commercial Building Prototype Model suite.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Office (EE-5B)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1435336
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2017/2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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