Reducing energy consumption in America's government buildings
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- With commercial and residential buildings accounting for 41% of the energy consumption in the US, there are economic, environmental, and health reasons to make buildings more efficient, but there are barriers: lack of awareness, high upfront costs, market fragmentation with split incentives, and difficulty calculating actual energy savings. To overcome these barriers, the government sector, the largest building owner in the United States, can more easily breach these barriers by implementing an energy policy through legislation, which the federal government has already initiated through executive orders. The government's progress is captured in four case studies: NASA's Moffett Airfield, Joint Base Lewis McChord, Presidio of Monterey, and the Santa Clara County Jail. The strengths and weaknesses from these case studies are compared to the Energy Star's Guidelines for Energy Management. In all four cases, the government agencies are reducing their energy consumption, but there is still room for improvement.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Sullivan, Patrick |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
| Thesis advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Patrick Sullivan. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Thesis | Engineering Stanford University 2013 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Patrick John Sullivan
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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