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Commercial Building Energy Asset Score: Program Overview and Technical Protocol (Version 1.1)

Publication Date: 
August 2013
Resource Type: 
Report
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This report outlines the technical protocol used to generate Department of Energy's Commercial Building Energy Asset Score for commercial buildings, explains the scoring methodology, and provides additional details regarding the Asset Scoring Tool. This report also describes alternative methods that were considered prior to developing the current approach. Finally, this report describes a few features of the program where alternative approaches are still under evaluation.

Building Type: 
Datacenter
Food Sales
Food Service
Health Care (Inpatient)
Health Care (Outpatient)
Higher Education
K-12 Education
Lodging
Manufacturing/Industrial Facility
Mercantile (Enclosed and Strip Malls)
Mercantile (Detached/Standalone)
Multifamily Housing
Office
Other
Parking Garage
Public Assembly
Public Order and Safety
Religious Worship
Vacant
Warehouse and Storage
Wastewater Plant
Topic: 
Analysis, Benchmarking, Performance, and Monitoring
Building Envelope
Energy Efficiency
Global Superior Energy Performance
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Miscellaneous Electric Loads
Operations and Maintenance
Sensors and Controls
Whole Building Design
Authors:
A Makhmalbaf, S Goel, N Wang

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