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Measured energy use and indoor environment quality in green office buildings in China

Lin, B; Liu, Y; Wang, Z; Pei, Z; Davies, M; (2016) Measured energy use and indoor environment quality in green office buildings in China. Energy and Buildings , 129 pp. 9-18. 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.07.057. Green open access

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Abstract

Recently green buildings are booming rapidly in China. In order to improve the performance of green buildings, energy consumption in 31 and indoor environment quality(IEQ) in 10 green office buildings are compared with common ones through energy data collection, physical parameters measurement and satisfaction survey. The results indicate that for building type A (mix-mode), it is only in Hot-Summer Cold-Winter zone that green buildings’ energy consumption is statistically significantly less than common buildings. For type B (mechanically conditioned), no statistically significantly difference between green and common has been observed in all climate zones. It is also found that in Hot-Summer Cold-Winter zone the average energy consumption of type A and B are 15% and 23% lower than the upper limit values required by the Chinese standard [27]. However in other climate zones, they are above the upper limit. In terms of the IEQ and building service performance, the satisfaction of users in green is marked higher than that in common in the field of thermal comfort, indoor air quality(IAQ), facilities, operating & maintenance. In addition, factors affecting buildings’ energy consumption are analyzed in order to provide guidance for further enhancing the performance of green buildings in design and operation stages.

Type: Article
Title: Measured energy use and indoor environment quality in green office buildings in China
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.07.057
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.07.057
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher.
Keywords: Green building; Energy consumption; Indoor environment quality (IEQ); Field measurement; Occupant satisfaction survey
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1514711
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