Monday, 27 June 2016: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Fundamentals and Applications
Chair:
Bruce Hunn, Ph.D., Hunn Building Energy
Technical Committee: 07.06 Building Energy Performance
ASHRAE published the Performance Measurement Protocols for Commercial Buildings (PMP) for building operators, facility managers, engineers and architects with respect to measuring and benchmarking commercial building performance. The PMP aims to provide a standardized set of protocols for a range of cost/accuracy (i.e., Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced levels), to facilitate the appropriate comparison of measured energy, water and indoor environmental quality (thermal comfort, indoor air quality, lighting and acoustics) performance. This seminar introduces the PMP and their use with example case studies that show the various applications of the protocols to real buildings.
1 PMP Energy Protocols
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Jeff S. Haberl, Ph.D., Texas A&M University |
This presentation covers the PMP Energy Protocols, including Basic, Intermediate and Advanced methods for characterizing building energy performance. For the Basic protocols the required information includes: building characteristics and annual whole-building energy use of all fuels to calculate indices. At the Intermediate level, monthly or weekly data are used to calculate regression models of the building’s energy use versus the influencing variables. At the Advanced level the protocols utilize daily, hourly or sub-hourly data to refine the regression models and/or apply diagnostic measures using regression models or calibrated simulation. Examples of all three levels are provided.
2 Measurement and Conservation of Water Use
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Jim Bochat, Commissioning Concepts |
This presentation reviews the ASHRAE Performance Measurement Protocols for water and how these protocol and calculations can be used to properly calculate water use reductions with typical examples of savings.
3 PMP Indoor Environmental Quality Protocols: Overall Application
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Hyojin Kim, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology
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This presentation covers the PMP Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) protocols which includes thermal comfort, indoor air quality, lighting, and acoustics and provides a demonstration of how to apply the ASHRAE PMP IEQ protocols in a holistic way in order to evaluate a building’s overall IEQ performance. A case study is presented, including a comprehensive IEQ monitoring cart which was developed to collect continuous IEQ data based on ASHRAE PMP.
4 Thermal Comfort Measurement, Evaluation and Practical Applications Using PMP
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David Heinzerling, Taylor Engineering |
Building Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) measurements are often complex, time consuming, expensive, and not easily conducted in a manner that covers all commercial building types, therefore evaluating IEQ is not standard practice. This presentation will cover the basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of thermal comfort measurement techniques prescribed in ASHRAE's Performance Measurement Protocols (PMP), which provides users with clear measurement methods and reference standards for evaluation. In addition to a review of the PMP measurement and evaluation procedures, a detailed case study will be presented, including an open-source software tool that helps users collect, analyze, and present measured IEQ data.