Calculate intensity using the matching floor area
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A fictional building-energy brief with source/unit checks, whole-year site energy, floor-area intensity, fair comparison limits, anomaly questions and an evidence-based monitoring proposal.
Keep your working files in your own notebook or software. Save a private description, checklist, and work link in My Proof.
What to include
- Save audited annual energy inventory and excluded-meter list; include the original-case decision evidence and a separate changed-case result.
- Save fuel-specific conversion ledger and site total; include the original-case decision evidence and a separate changed-case result.
- Save site EUI with boundary/period/no score label; include the original-case decision evidence and a separate changed-case result.
- Save bounded building comparison and needed peer data; include the original-case decision evidence and a separate changed-case result.
- Save source/site scenario comparison with factor limitations; include the original-case decision evidence and a separate changed-case result.
- Save building energy inventory/conversion/EUI/source/comparison brief; include the original-case decision evidence and a separate changed-case result.
Review and revise
Use these criteria to check your work and choose what to improve.
- The final packet uses the supplied task-specific constraints and all six records agree.
- Every result can be traced to an identifier, input, calculation or stated decision rule.
- Changed-case practice updates dependent records and keeps holds or uncertainty visible.
- The packet states the learner role, authority boundary and specific next verification needed before real work.
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The idea in everyday life
Original fictional workplace practice; paper or a local document is sufficient. The rules and records below are supplied for this exercise, not asserted universal workplace policy. Aspen A annual site 1,282,400 kBtu ,20,000 ft²gross floor area. Site EUI unit kBtu/ft²/year. Tenant-only floor area 15,000 ft²does not match whole building energy. No ENERGY STAR score is calculated.
Energy use intensity divides energy by the matching gross floor area and period; it is not an energy efficiency score or proof that two buildings have same use.
Calculate intensity using the matching floor area — worked practice
Energy use intensity divides energy by the matching gross floor area and period; it is not an energy efficiency score or proof that two buildings have same use.
Aspen A annual site 1,282,400 kBtu ,20,000 ft²gross floor area. Site EUI unit kBtu/ft²/year. Tenant-only floor area 15,000 ft²does not match whole building energy. No ENERGY STAR score is calculated. Use paper or a local document. Preserve the original case and make a separate changed-case record.
1. Step 1
Write energy period and gross-area denominator.
You should see: 12 months and 20,000 ft²same A boundary.
Keep the stated identifier, unit and policy alongside this result so another reader can check it.
2. Step 2
Divide annual site energy by area.
You should see: 1,282,400/20,000=64.12 kBtu/ft²/year.
Keep the stated identifier, unit and policy alongside this result so another reader can check it.
3. Step 3
Test the incorrect tenant-only denominator.
You should see: 15,000 would give 85.4933 but mismatches boundary.
Keep the stated identifier, unit and policy alongside this result so another reader can check it.
4. Step 4
Save site EUI with boundary/period/no score label.
You should see: 64.12 is an intensity, not official score or verified efficiency grade.
Keep the stated identifier, unit and policy alongside this result so another reader can check it.
What to finish
Save site EUI with boundary/period/no score label; include the original-case decision evidence and a separate changed-case result.
Watch for this
Using occupied area against whole building energy or calling a simple EUI an official performance certification.
How can I tell I understand it?
Using the supplied identifiers, I can save site EUI with boundary/period/no score label. My changed-case record names the revised condition and explains which dependent decision it changes.
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