Abstract
Research on how the database method can assist building performance diagnosis has become an important direction of current green building studies. Many research institutions have paid great attention to the building performance database, adopting new technologies to integrate indoor environmental quality and occupant satisfaction with building energy consumption data. This paper introduces and summarizes the data types, collection methods, and applications of current building performance databases, including those in the United States, the European Union, Japan, and Australia, as well as China. In view of the current problems of limited coverage, poor quality, and ineffective application of green buildings in China, this paper proposes a three-dimensional framework for green building performance databases. The collection and optimization methods of green building performance data are also discussed.
Highlights
There are certain limitations: (1) for data types, there is a lack of evaluation of indoor environmental quality and occupant satisfaction; (2) most building information cannot be shared, which means that occupants have access neither to the database nor to the realtime operation information of the buildings
Building Occupants Survey System Australia (BOSSA). e Building Occupants Survey System (BOSSA) is a joint building quality assessment system established by the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney, which was developed at start for Australian office buildings and is for the Australian Green Star Building Rating System. e system is composed of the BOSSA Time-Lapse, the BOSSA Snapshot, and indoor environmental quality measurement [19]
Only the PBD, Indoor Environmental Quality Survey (IEQ), and BOSSA databases provide information on building environmental quality and occupant satisfaction based on Internet surveys
Summary
Some countries have gradually paid attention to the energy consumption and environmental performance of operated buildings, establishing various types of building performance databases to analyze and optimize building performance. As early as 2006, Beijing Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Center and Tsinghua University designed and developed the Building Energy Monitoring System EMS-II, and they have gradually carried out a series of research on the public building smart meter, data transmission network, database, real-time data visualization, automatic energy consumption analysis, and energy-saving diagnosis. E first phase of the project includes the data collection of basic information and energy consumption of 450 public buildings (25.76 million square meters), energy audit of 368 buildings (17.6 million square meters), and the real-time energy monitoring of 50 buildings. It involves the establishment of Shenzhen Building Energy Monitoring Data Center [10]. There are certain limitations: (1) for data types, there is a lack of evaluation of indoor environmental quality and occupant satisfaction; (2) most building information cannot be shared, which means that occupants have access neither to the database nor to the realtime operation information of the buildings
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