A case study of an office building to identify energy consumption and carbon management solutions using physical data and simulation software

Subramaniam, Ramesh, Ponniah, Vignes, Sanmargaraja, Shalini, Lou, Eric ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7099-1426, Adli, Muhammad Afiq Bin Nor and Gunasegaran, Muthu Kumaran (2021) A case study of an office building to identify energy consumption and carbon management solutions using physical data and simulation software. In: 4th International Symposium on Green and Sustainable Technology (ISGST 2021), 3 October 2021 - 6 October 2021, Kampar, Malaysia.

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Abstract

To measure the level of energy performance of a building, there are several categories of energy consumption to be calculated such as oil, natural gas and electricity. In order to significantly minimise the Greenhouse gas emission in an office, it is important to tap into the positive progress of energy efficiency of equipment which contributes to total energy performance of a building. Consequently, to enable accurate building energy consumption of a building, energy modelling method is applied to identify total consumption and cost of energy usage with effects of carbon emission. Hence, this will help to reduce the costing of energy inside building with differences of efficiency options. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse an office building in terms of the level of energy consumption and carbon emission as a case study. The first objective is to identify the amount of energy consumption and carbon emission inside the building using the simulation software. Secondly, to identify the differences between the data recorded through simulation software and physical data. Finally, to identify solutions to decrease the carbon emission by applying measures towards reducing energy consumption inside the building.