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<p>Richard,</p>
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<p>The most current publication that covers all aspects of how to rate a building's performance would be the ASHRAE Performance Metric Protocols or PMP. The PMP has three levels of evaluating the energy, water, IEQ (thermal comfort and IAQ), acoustics and lighting
performance. In the PMP special emphasis was given to references for both North American and European Standards where the reader could go to learn more.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, assessing the thermal performance of a real building is a bit more difficult because of the compounding errors that occur when one tries to unravel the performance of the various heat transfer pathways, (i.e., the windows, walls, roof, occupants,
infiltration, internal loads, etc. Furthermore, to make matters worse, the smaller the building (i.e., residential), the worse it is to decompose the thermal components, i.e., the window SHGC from the U-value, or the infiltration.</p>
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<p>There have been some worthy attempts that have shown certain things can be coaxed out of the data. The earliest one that I'm aware of was the PSTAR by Kris Subbarao in the early 80s. This was later picked up by folks at SERI, now NREL and carried into newer
analysis, for example, the recent work with BESTEST EX by Judkoff and Neymark for residential. There was also the mid 90s work by Manke and Hittle that demonstrated the use of empirical parameters, sometimes that were physically unreasonable but gave the best
fit. There was also a bit of work done by Palmiter on black and gray box methods, and the "test-hut" work published by Yaeger in the late 1980s. Other works include Mazzucchi, and Kaplan, and of course the work by Hsieh et al. at Princeton. You can pick up
the thread on these by reading the literature searches in one or more of the thesis on our web site by Bronson, Bou Saada, Abbas, Song, Kim and others on calibrated simulation.</p>
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<p>Hope this helps.</p>
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<p>jeff</p>
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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr" id="divRpF26560"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] on behalf of Richard M Sapwell [ecodesigns@tpg.com.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 08, 2011 9:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Bldg-sim] Existing building thermal performance assessment methodology?<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt" lang="EN-AU">G'day,</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt" lang="EN-AU">Can anyone suggest other then a software program a 'methodology' for the assessment of the thermal performance of existing commercial buildings?</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt" lang="EN-AU">Determining the occupants thermal comfort levels and the air indoor quality would be beneficial but not essential for the methodology.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt" lang="EN-AU">Thanks in advance.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt" lang="EN-AU">Regards,<br>
Richard </span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt" lang="EN-AU"><font size="5">eco<font color="#008000">designs</font></font><font color="#008000">
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