Current Resources: This list provides brief descriptions and links to a few of the key documents and tools currently available for measured performance analyses and case studies. (Printer friendly version.)

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Found: 32 resources

Title	Author	Year	Brief Description	Topics
A Market-Friendly Post-Occupancy Evaluation: Building Performance Report	Hewitt, D et al, NBI, for NW Energy Efficiency Alliance	2006	Describes current POE practices and usage, barriers to use, and results of market research into the feasibility and design of a low-cost market-friendly review procedure.	POE literature review, Market research, Review Protocols
ASHRAE Report: Protocols for Measuring and Reporting Onsite Performance	U of CO and Nexant, for ASHRAE	2007	A detailed review of current protocols for quantifying building performance, current gaps, and how protocols might be integrated and systematically applied.	POE literature review, Review protocols, Metrics definition
Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) Protocol	EcoSmart	2007	Publicly available protocol for POE, with particular emphasis on feedback to the design community, along with case studies pilot projects used in developing the protocol.	Review protocols, Case studies, Design team feedback
California End Use Survey (CEUS)	Itron, for CEC	2006	Database of California Commercial Building measured energy use and demand, with estimated end use splits developed through calibrated modeling of 2800 premises. Itron's website (available through link from the CEC site, includes a searchable database and access to detailed spreadsheets.	Benchmarking, Databases
California Institute for Energy and Environment	Brown, K., University of CA	ongoing	Reports from the institute's projects, including Monitoring-Based Commissioning and the UC/CSU Energy Efficient Campuses program	Metrics definition, Benchmarking, Review protocols
CBE IEQ Occupant Survey	UC Berkeley Center for the Built Environment	ongoing	Occupant survey description, preview, and articles describing results. Also contains links to published documents on other CBE performance and comfort research.	Occupant surveys
Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS)	EIA	ongoing	A quadrennial national survey of energy consumption usage and levels of U.S. commercial buildings, widely used for benchmarking. Website provides result summaries, background, and access to spreadsheet detail of underlying data.	Benchmarking, Databases
Cost of Green Revisited	Matthiessen, L.F., Morris, P., Davis Langdon	2007	Reviews the cost/sf of 221 buildings, comparing LEED and non-certified.	Financial
DASH (Database for Analyzing Sustainable and High Performance Buildings) Executive Summary	Green Building Alliance	2007	Overview of project underway to design a comprehensive high performance buildings database, including financial, efficiency, and occupant metrics.	Databases
DOE High Performance Buildings Database	DOE EERE / Building Green	ongoing	A searchable database of narrative and quantitative case study information. Includes areas defined for actual measured performance, though most buildings have not currently completed this information.	Case studies, Databases
DOE High Performance Buildings Database Google Earth Overlays	DOE EERE / Building Green / Google	ongoing	Interactive Google map with links to buildings in the high performance database and 3D models	Databases, Case studies
Does Green Pay Off?	Miller, Spivey and Florance	2008	Preliminary draft of results from a comparison market and occupancy factors for green and non-green (Energy Star or LEED) class A office space from the CoStar database	Financial
EBIDS website	Carnegie Mellon Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium	ongoing	The site contains design strategies, supporting documents, and summaries of estimated energy and productivity savings for each of the key building components.	Design strategies and benefits
Energy Benchmarking for Buildings and People	LBNL	ongoing	Information on LBNL’s current work with CEC on action-oriented benchmarking, and past projects such as CalArch.	Metrics definition, Benchmarking, Measured performance reporting
Energy Performance of LEED for New Construction Buildings	Turner, C. and Frankel, M.	2008	Measured energy performance results of 121 LEED buildings, with multiple metrics including Energy Star scores and comparison of measured to modeled performance.	Measured performance reporting, Benchmarking, Occupant surveys
Energy Star Portfolio Manager	EPA Energy Star program	ongoing	A free online tool for recording building energy usage histories and benchmarking results against comparable buildings. Building data may be entered manually, uploaded from spreadsheets, or automatically uploaded from some energy management software.	Benchmarking, Measured performance reporting
Green Building Finance Consortium website	Muldavin, S., Green Building Finance Consortium	ongoing	The site’s Resources pages have GBFC publications, links to many other finance articles/sites, and a database of article references searchable by topic, author or title.	Financial, Market Research
Greening of U.S. Investment Real Estate	RREEF	2007	Study of institutional investment in green real estate, including comparisons of LEED, Energy Star, and conventional market performance based on the CoStar database	Financial
IPMVP (International Protocol for Measurement and Verification of Performance)	EVO (Efficiency Valuation Organization)	2007	Framework, background, and standards for Measurement and Verification of commercial building energy and water performance	Review protocols
Is What They Want What They Get?	NBI	2002	An examination of field evidence for links between design intent as as-built and operated energy performance. Includes interview results from building professionals and data analysis of modeled performance, measured performance, and Energy Star ratings.	Benchmarking, Measured performance reporting, Metrics definition
Labs21 Case Studies: Donald Bren Hall (Example. Several studies available)	EPA, DOE	2004	The Labs21 case study format produces an 8-page overview including key building features, metrics, benchmarks, and measured results	Case studies
Labs21 Energy Benchmarking Tool	LBNL	ongoing	An online display of laboratory energy usage levels, for general reference or participation. Website also contains background articles and related material on managing laboratory energy usage.	Benchmarking, Databases, Metrics definition
Learning from our Buildings	Federal Facilities Council	2002	A state-of-practice summary of post occupancy evaluations, with authored papers on definitions, tools, costs, results, and recommendations	POE literature review, Occupant surveys, Measured performance reporting
NREL High Performance Building Case Studies	Deru, Torcellini, and others	2005	6 detailed case studies of high performance buildings, at whole building and system level. See for example the Cambria Office Building report	Case studies
Performance Dashboard	NBI	2007	Sample 1-page summary format for reporting whole building energy usage and occupant comfort	Measured performance reporting
Performance Metrics Research Project	NREL	2005	This DOE site contains all 5 papers completed by NREL under this High Performance Buildings Metrics project: Indoor lighting, PV systems, Building geometry, and Final report, as well as the "Procedure for Measuring and Reporting" document listed separately in this database.	Review protocols, Metrics definition
Post-Occupancy Evaluation (Chapter 3 from Learning from our Buildings)	Vischer, J.	2002	A general overview of POE, with emphasis on design and use of occupant surveys for corporate space design and planning	Occupant surveys
Probe Studies (when following the link, select “Probe” on the menu at left)	Usable Buildings Trust	1995 – 2002	Landmark POE studies in the United Kingdom that provided a model for including energy usage, occupant interviews, and component specific measurement. The Usable Buildings Trust website also contains many more recent papers on advancing POE.	Review protocols, Case studies, Design team feedback, Design team feedback, Occupant surveys
Procedure for Measuring and Reporting Commercial Building Energy Performance	NREL: Barley, Deru, Pless, Torcellini	2005	An in-depth set of definitions and measurements for reporting measured energy performance at the site level, providing both basic/intermediate and advanced options	Review protocols, Metrics definition
Quantifying "Green" Value: Assessing the applicability of the CoStar studies	Muldavin, S.	2008	A thoughtful critique of the Miller, Spivey paper "Does Green Pay Off?" This review describes strengths and limitations of the original study data and methodology, and suggests additional work to better support tactical and property-specific decision making and pricing.	Financial
Sustainability Perceptions and Trends in Corporate Real Estate: A Survey	Jones Lange Lasalle & Corenett	2007	Slides summarizing a survey of perceptions regarding sustainability in corporate real estate	Market research
Thinking Inside the Box: The Case for Post-Occupancy Evaluation	Medler, S. in Building Design & Construction	2007	Describes the process used and results of HOK Architecture’s POEs on 9 of their green building projects.	Case studies, Design team feedback