Journal
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 45-51Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2006.04.018
Keywords
energy rating of buildings; energy audits; buildings' thermal performance calculations; energy efficiency in school buildings
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The present paper deals with the energy performance, energy classification and rating and the global environmental quality of school buildings. A new energy classification technique based on intelligent clustering methodologies is proposed. Energy rating of school buildings provides specific information on their energy consumption and efficiency relative to the other buildings of similar nature and permits a better planning of interventions to improve its energy performance. The overall work reported in the present paper, is carried out in three phases. During the first phase energy consumption data have been collected through energy surveys performed in 320 schools in Greece. In the second phase an innovative energy rating scheme based on fuzzy clustering techniques has been developed, while in the third phase, 10 schools have been selected and detailed measurements of their energy efficiency and performance as well as of the global environmental quality have been performed using a specific experimental protocol. The proposed energy rating method has been applied while the main environmental and energy problems have been identified. The potential for energy and environmental improvements has been assessed. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All fights reserved.
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