Transforming Data into Action-Building Energy Management System to Actualize a Sustainable Built Environment
The Paris Agreement highlights the objective of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2oC compared to pre-industrial levels, recognising that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change. The building, which accounts for 40% of global energy consumption, represents a major opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas and combat climate change. By cohering smart technologies and energyefficient initiatives into a building, people are enabled to raise building energy performance and enhance the sustainability of the built environment in their daily lives. To motivate building management and users participation in saving energy, Building Energy Management System (BEMS) can be built for turning data into actions. BEMS is formed by interfacing and integrating various control systems and legacy meters in the building and applying innovative data analytical techniques. It provides energy profile of a building which enables building management to achieve energy performance improvement through raising building users energy awareness, analysing the energy and system data for enhancing green operations and benchmarking the energy usage for planning and prioritising energy management opportunities (EMO). A BEMS comprises 4 core elements: (1) Energy Dashboard, for visualizing the building energy consumption and the contribution from renewable energy; (2) Energy Performance Analysis, for providing a comprehensive perspective on energy utilization and composition; (3) System Performance Analysis, for providing a holistic view on systems usage and efficiency; and (4) Benchmarking and Reporting, for measuring and verifying energy performance in accordance with ISO 50001 standards and energy audit requirements. This Paper will illustrate how BEMS promotes green operations to actualize sustainable built environment and revitalises an existing building into a smart building. By transforming data into action, we perceive that the BEMS would contribute in developing Hong Kong into a sustainable smart city to be admired.
energy use. energy measurement and verification smart building
Jovian CHEUNG Man-chit CHAN Tze-chun YIU Cheuk-man
Electrical & Mechanical Services Department, Government of the HKSAR, Hong Kong SAR
国际会议
2017世界可持续建筑环境大会(the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference)
香港
英文
472-477
2017-06-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）