Generating low-cost national energy benchmarks: a case study in commercial buildings in Cape Town, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorMartin, Caroline
dc.coverage.spatial0378-7788en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T05:47:40Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T05:47:40Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.updated2016-02-04T07:59:41Z
dc.description.abstractNational benchmarks are a valuable tool for assessing and monitoring energy consumption in existing building stocks worldwide, but can be time consuming and expensive to generate. I explore a low-cost alternative by coordinating building related data collected by municipalities in South Africa for billing and rates purposes, to create energy use intensities (EUI) for the existing building stock. For a sample of commercial buildings in Cape Town, I link electricity data supplied by the municipality billing department with gross floor area data from the municipality valuation (rates) department, to establish EUIs. From these I calculate benchmarks that represent typical annual electricity usage for retail and office buildings in Cape Town. In addition I identify a number of improvements to data quality and access that would enable South Africa to realise the current opportunities that exist in the structure of its building data collection. In doing so South Africa can potentially leapfrog many other countries in the development of performance-based benchmarks and rating tools for a range of building activities, positioning it at the forefront of building energy-data collection.en_ZA
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.04.008
dc.identifier.apacitationMartin, C. (2013). Generating low-cost national energy benchmarks: a case study in commercial buildings in Cape Town, South Africa. <i>Energy and Buildings</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16826en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMartin, Caroline "Generating low-cost national energy benchmarks: a case study in commercial buildings in Cape Town, South Africa." <i>Energy and Buildings</i> (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16826en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMartin, C. (2013). Generating low-cost national energy benchmarks: A case study in commercial buildings in Cape Town, South Africa. Energy and Buildings, 64, 26-31.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Martin, Caroline AB - National benchmarks are a valuable tool for assessing and monitoring energy consumption in existing building stocks worldwide, but can be time consuming and expensive to generate. I explore a low-cost alternative by coordinating building related data collected by municipalities in South Africa for billing and rates purposes, to create energy use intensities (EUI) for the existing building stock. For a sample of commercial buildings in Cape Town, I link electricity data supplied by the municipality billing department with gross floor area data from the municipality valuation (rates) department, to establish EUIs. From these I calculate benchmarks that represent typical annual electricity usage for retail and office buildings in Cape Town. In addition I identify a number of improvements to data quality and access that would enable South Africa to realise the current opportunities that exist in the structure of its building data collection. In doing so South Africa can potentially leapfrog many other countries in the development of performance-based benchmarks and rating tools for a range of building activities, positioning it at the forefront of building energy-data collection. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Energy and Buildings LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - Generating low-cost national energy benchmarks: a case study in commercial buildings in Cape Town, South Africa TI - Generating low-cost national energy benchmarks: a case study in commercial buildings in Cape Town, South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16826 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/16826
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMartin C. Generating low-cost national energy benchmarks: a case study in commercial buildings in Cape Town, South Africa. Energy and Buildings. 2013; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16826.en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevieren_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentEnergy Research Centreen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.sourceEnergy and Buildingsen_ZA
dc.source.urihttp://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-and-buildings/
dc.subject.otherEnergy consumption
dc.subject.otherMunicipal government
dc.titleGenerating low-cost national energy benchmarks: a case study in commercial buildings in Cape Town, South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeJournal Articleen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsEnergy benchmarken_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsCarbonen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsCommercialen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsEnergy efficiencyen_ZA
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uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceArticleen_ZA
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