@proceedings {3391, title = {Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings}, journal = {2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings}, year = {2006}, month = {08/2006}, address = {Pacific Grove, CA, USA}, author = {Philip Haves and Robert J. Hitchcock and Kenneth L. Gillespie and Martha Brook and Christine Shockman and Joseph J Deringer and Kristopher L. Kinney} } @proceedings {268, title = {Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings}, journal = {2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings}, year = {2006}, month = {08/2006}, address = {Asilomar, California, USA}, abstract = {

The paper describes the development of a model specification for performance monitoring systems for commercial buildings. The specification focuses on four key aspects of performance monitoring: performance metrics measurement system requirements data acquisition and archiving data visualization and reporting The aim is to assist building owners in specifying the extensions to their control systems that are required to provide building operators with the information needed to operate their buildings more efficiently and to provide automated diagnostic tools with the information required to detect and diagnose faults and problems that degrade energy performance. The paper reviews the potential benefits of performance monitoring, describes the specification guide and discusses briefly the ways in which it could be implemented. A prototype advanced visualization tool is also described, along with its application to performance monitoring. The paper concludes with a description of the ways in which the specification and the visualization tool are being disseminated and deployed.

}, url = {http://www.aceee.org/proceedings-paper/ss06/panel03/paper10}, author = {Philip Haves and Robert J. Hitchcock and Kenneth L. Gillespie and Martha Brook and Christine Shockman and Joseph J Deringer and Kristopher L. Kinney} } @proceedings {270, title = {A Guide for Specifying Performance Monitoring Systems in Commercial and Institutional Buildings}, journal = {14th National Conference on Building Commissioning}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, abstract = {

This paper describes a guide for specifying performance monitoring systems that was developed as part of jointly funded CEC PIER-DOE project intended to assist commercial and institutional building owners in specifying what is required to obtain the information necessary to initiate and sustain an ongoing commissioning activity. The project{\textquoteright}s goal was to facilitate the delivery of specific performance related information to the benefit of both commissioning providers and building operators. A number of large-building owners were engaged in order to help create {\textquoteright}market pull{\textquoteright} for performance monitoring while producing a specification that met their needs. The specification guide and example specification language addresses four key aspects of performance monitoring:

The paper describes key aspects of the guide including how measurement accuracy requirements relate to the performance metrics that are used in both troubleshooting and routine reporting. Guide development activities and related tech-transfer efforts are also presented.

}, author = {Kenneth L. Gillespie and Philip Haves and Robert J. Hitchcock and Joseph J Deringer and Kristopher L. Kinney} } @proceedings {3396, title = {Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 Compliance Calculations}, journal = {SimBuild 2006}, year = {2006}, month = {08/2006}, address = {Cambridge, MA, USA}, author = {Yu Joe Huang and Norman Bourassa and Walter F. Buhl and Ender Erdem and Robert J. Hitchcock} } @conference {1945, title = {Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 compliance calculations}, booktitle = {SimBuild 2006}, year = {2006}, month = {08/2006}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

For the past decade, the non-residential portion of California{\textquoteright}s Title-24 building energy standard has relied on DOE-2.1E as the reference computer simulation program for development as well as compliance. However, starting in 2004, the California Energy Commission has been evaluating the possible use of EnergyPlus as the reference program in future revisions of Title-24. As part of this evaluation, the authors converted the Alternate Compliance Method (ACM) certification test suite of 150 DOE-2 files to EnergyPlus, and made parallel DOE-2 and EnergyPlus runs for this extensive set of test cases. A customized version of DOE-2.1E named doe2ep was developed to automate the conversion process. This paper describes this conversion process, including the difficulties in establishing an apples-to-apples comparison between the two programs, and summarizes how the DOE-2 and EnergyPlus results compare for the ACM test cases.

}, author = {Yu Joe Huang and Norman Bourassa and Walter F. Buhl and Ender Erdem and Robert J. Hitchcock} }