@proceedings {3391, title = {Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial 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}, 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}, 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} } @conference {1806, title = {A Simulation-Based Testing and Training Environment for Building Controls}, booktitle = {SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation}, year = {2005}, month = {08/2004}, address = {Boulder, CO}, abstract = {

A hybrid simulation environment for controls testing and training is described. A real-time simulation of a building and HVAC system is coupled to a real building control system using a hardware interface. A prototype has been constructed and tested in which the dynamic performance of both the HVAC equipment and the building envelope is simulated using SPARK (Simulation Problem Analysis and Research Kernel). A low cost hardware interface between the simulation and the real control system is implemented using plug-in analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog cards in a personal computer. The design and implementation of the hardware interface in SPARK are described. The development of a variant of this environment that uses a derivative of EnergyPlus to test the implementation of a natural ventilation control strategy in real control hardware is also described.

Various applications of the hybrid simulation environment are briefly described, including the development of control algorithms and strategies, control system product testing and the pre-commissioning of building control system installations. The application to the education and training of building operators and HVAC service technicians is discussed in more detail, including the development of a community college curriculum that includes the use of the hybrid simulation environment to teach both control system configuration and HVAC troubleshooting.

}, author = {Peng Xu and Philip Haves and Joseph J Deringer} } @proceedings {282, title = {A simulation-based testing and training environment for building controls}, year = {2004}, address = {Boulder, CO}, abstract = {

A hybrid simulation environment for controls testing and training is described. A real-time simulation of a building and HVAC system is coupled to a real building control system using a hardware interface. A prototype has been constructed and tested in which the dynamic performance of both the HVAC equipment and the building envelope is simulated using SPARK (Simulation Problem Analysis and Research Kernel). A low cost hardware interface between the simulation and the real control system is implemented using plug-in analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog cards in a personal computer. The design and implementation of the hardware interface in SPARK are described. The development of a variant of this environment that uses a derivative of EnergyPlus to test the implementation of a natural ventilation control strategy in real control hardware is also described. Various applications of the hybrid simulation environment are briefly described, including the development of control algorithms and strategies, control system product testing and the pre-commissioning of building control system installations. The application to the education and training of building operators and HVAC service technicians is discussed in more detail, including the development of a community college curriculum that includes the use of the hybrid simulation environment to teach both control system configuration and HVAC troubleshooting.

}, author = {Peng Xu and Philip Haves and Joseph J Deringer} } @proceedings {2824, title = {Transferred Just on Paper? Why Doesn{\textquoteright}t the Reality of Transferring/Adapting Energy Efficiency Codes and Standards Come Close to the Potential?}, year = {2004}, month = {08/2004}, address = {Pacific Grove, California, USA}, author = {Joseph J Deringer and Maithili Iyer and Yu Joe Huang} }