Existing building energy efficiency featured at 2016 ASHRAE conference
Increasing the energy efficiency and reducing the energy consumption of existing buildings can have four times the environmental impact as compared to the installation of renewable energy, according to ASHRAE.
With existing building renovation accounting for most of the money spent in U.S. building construction today, actual building performance needs to be determined to make the most of those dollars spent. Setting those metrics and increasing existing buildings’ energy efficiency is described in a seminar at the ASHRAE 2016 Annual Conference.