The implementation of building energy management in commercial real estate and impacts on building energy performance
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- I studied owner-operators of large corporate campuses with successful energy management programs to encourage dissemination of energy management practices to a broader audience with the ambition that the knowledge presented in this thesis contributes to dramatically reduce building energy use in the commercial building sector. My doctoral research contributes to the field of energy efficient building management: (1) a case study of advanced building energy management (BEM) at a corporate campus, (2) an assessment of BEM practice implementation and validation of the ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management framework by contrasting energy management at five case study corporations, (3) an analysis of how ENERGY STAR Scoring lacks support for impact analysis of BEM. I further contribute to energy efficient building management a framework connecting BEM practices and their impacts, which I validated internally for the performed case studies. Finally, the thesis concludes with empirical evidence that sustainability provides an alternative, potentially strategic, reason for BEM to the field of sustainability research for buildings in the commercial sector. Practitioners can use these findings to support the decision to adopt certain BEM practices. Researchers can build on the empirical analysis of the impact of energy management practices on building performance and create a formal framework for quantitatively explaining their impact. Policy makers can use the results of this research to update best practice guidelines to prioritize the most impactful practices.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Graebert, Robert Franz |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
| Thesis advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
| Thesis advisor | Granderson, Jessica |
| Thesis advisor | Levitt, Raymond E |
| Advisor | Granderson, Jessica |
| Advisor | Levitt, Raymond E |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Robert Franz Graebert. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Robert Franz Graebert
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-ND).
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