Industry Experts Plan for Future Focused on Commercial Building Performance Outcomes - search results

Determining a building’s energy efficiency based solely on using predictive energy models and specifying certain design and construction attributes may be a thing of the past by the time the next generation of architects and engineers join the workforce. Communities and owners want measurable performance data: they want to know whether greenhouse gas emissions are lower, whether energy consumption has been reduced and even whether the building has achieved zero-energy usage.Models remain an important tool, but the actual data after the building is operational is what truly shows whether efficiency expectations have been realized.