Case study of building energy load calculations for a sustainable technology demonstration project.

The objective of this paper is to conduct an energy analysis of the Frontier Project using computer-based software and to verify results using load calculation spreadsheets. The Frontier Project is a demonstration of sustainable and renewable energy technologies [1]. The current paper serves to quantify the building energy demands by performing a building energy load calculation on the facility. This is meant to act as a case-study of how energy and the environment can be influenced by using and promoting the correct technologies. The computer-based software selected for use was eQUEST [7] version 3.65. The ASHRAE Bin Method was used to validate the eQUEST computer model. The methods are found to agree with 20% shown that the overall load is 20 tons or 70.34 kW for the 1759.2 m² facility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]