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A study of energy performance and audit of commercial mall in hot-summer/warm-winter climate zone in China.
- Source :
- Energy Efficiency (1570646X); Aug2013, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p459-473, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- The building energy performance improvement of large-scale public buildings is very important to release China's energy shortage pressure. The aim of the study is to find out the building energy saving potentials of large-scale public and commercial buildings by energy audit. In this paper, the energy consumption, energy performance, and audit were carried out for a typical commercial mall, the so-called largest mall in Asia, located in a hot-summer and warm-winter climate zone. The total annual energy consumption reaches 210.01 kWh/m, of which lighting energy consumption accounts for 30.03 kWh/m and the lift and elevator energy consumption accounts for 40.46 kWh/m. It is by far higher than that of the average building energy consumption in the same category. However, the annual heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) energy consumption is only 87.19 kWh/m even though they run 24/7. It proves that the energy performance of the HVAC system is good. Therefore, the building energy savings potential mainly relies on reducing the excessive usage of lighting, lifts, and elevators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1570646X
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Energy Efficiency (1570646X)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 88900344
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-012-9185-3