Cooling Performance Assessment of Building America Homes

Primary Author(s)

Florida Solar Energy Center
Dave Chasar, Florida Solar Energy CenterFollow

Secondary Author(s)

Chandra, Subrato; Parker, Danny; Sherwin, John; Beal, David; Hoak, David; Moyer, Neil; McIlvaine, Janet

Report Number

FSEC-CR-1673-06

URL

http://publications.energyresearch.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FSEC-CR-1673-06.pdf

Keywords

Energy Consumption; Buildings; Cooling; Building energy use; Cooling performance; Energy monitoring; Data collection; Climate impact on energy

Abstract

Long-term monitoring of building energy use and environmental conditions has been a strong component of FSEC research since the 1980s. Fully-automated data collection, verification, archiving and management ensure accurate logging of large amounts of data simultaneously from numerous field sites prior to being made available for analysis and display via the internet. Homes are typically monitored using 15 to 50 channels of data to measure indoor and outdoor environmental conditions and energy use of heating, cooling, water heating, whole house, and other points (e.g. Solar PV or Solar DHW) if needed.

Energy performance in many Building America homes has been documented with measured data collected over several years to verify savings projections. An evaluation of measured cooling performance is presented with data from nine homes in three climate regions. Data from potential zero energy homes and minimum code homes provide upper and lower performance bounds. Comparisons are based on regression analysis of daily cooling energy per 1,000 square foot of floor area versus average daily temperature difference (outdoor-indoor).

Date Published

7-24-2006

Identifiers

500

Notes

Original Publication: Chasar, D., Chandra, S., Parker, D., Sherwin, J., Beal, D., Hoak, D., Moyer, N., McIlvaine, J., "Cooling Performance Assessment of Building America Homes", Fifteenth Symposium on Improving Building Systems in Hot and Humid Climates, July 24-26, 2006, Orlando, FL

Subjects

Buildings--Energy conservation; Cooling systems; Energy consumption; Data centers; Environmental monitoring

Local Subjects

Buildings - Cooling; Buildings - Energy Consumption

Type

Text; Document

Creator (Linked Data)

Chasar, Dave [LC]

Collection

FSEC Energy Research Center® Collection

STARS Citation

Florida Solar Energy Center and Chasar, Dave, "Cooling Performance Assessment of Building America Homes" (2006). FSEC Energy Research Center®. 500.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fsec/500