electricity consumption of a building
electricity consumption of a building
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I am working in my intership on building energy. I want to determine the consumption of a building daily. I have the daily consumption of the whole university campus and not of each building separetly. Is there a way to estimate the daily consumption of one building of this campus ?





RE: electricity consumption of a building
Otherwise, you should contact your facilities department.
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I think i can not use this assumption you mentioned because the use of buildings is different ( administration, research labs, classrooms ). So, is there another assumption which matches this case?
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Or you could roam the campus with an Amprobe, sampling the current consumption of everything in a given room at a given time, and integrate over time for each type of room, etc.
Mike Halloran
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RE: electricity consumption of a building
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For typical building energy use by building occupancy, look at energystar.gov or doe.gov, there are tables that list the total annual energy use per square foot average for classroom, office, health care, etc...
You could then estimate a weighting factor for each of your buildings.
In my business, we have to document things like that -- so step one would be to install temporary (or sometimes permanent) meters on the individual buildings for a period of time.
Good on ya,
Goober Dave
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I spent about 9 months working at a large university in Chicago years ago. Many questions I had for facilities management went unanswered. Working with the electrical staff directly was useful in resolving these issues.