School Building Energy Assessment Using Lean Energy Management Strategies

Abdul Hadi Ahamad,Rozana Zakaria,Eeydzah Aminudin,Shaza Rina Sahamir,Nur IzieAdiana Abidin,Jam Shahzaib Khan,Amir Alhamdi Redzuan,Santi Edra Nisa Lau,Mohamad Faiz Mohd Yusoff,Shamila Azman

doi:10.3389/fbuil.2021.679579

Abstract

In Malaysia, there are approximately 10,220 active schools, and these schools’ electricity bills are under the responsibility of the Malaysian Ministry of Education. The demand for energy use is expected to rise dramatically in the coming years due to many factors such as the increasing number of student enrolments and the demand for a comfortable indoor environment in response to global climate effects. Therefore, there are many ideas, concepts, and technologies that have been introduced towards energy conservation in buildings. This study aims to identify key implementation of energy conservation measures and audit energy consumption of five secondary schools. Case studies derived were from schools that participated in Energy Efficiency Challenge hosted by the Energy Commission. It was found that the schools’ usage of electricity exceeded their need. Based on the implementation of energy management conservation measures throughout 2016 to 2019, there were gradual reductions and downtrends in energy consumption graphs.

Highlights

The fast-growing world energy consumption has increased concerns overs supply difficulties, depletion of energy resources, adverse health effects, and serious environmental impacts, in developing countries (Belaid and Zrelli, 2019)
The approach for this study is based on a case study and is carried out in a methodical manner using the proper analysis methodologies to be used in energy management (Nawi et al, 2019)
The first phase entails the analysis of key practices in school management, while the second phase is determining the schools’ energy use pattern to establish the current state of its energy consumption

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Introduction

The fast-growing world energy consumption has increased concerns overs supply difficulties, depletion of energy resources, adverse health effects, and serious environmental impacts, in developing countries (Belaid and Zrelli, 2019). Energy demand is expected to increase, parallel and proportioned to the increase of Retrofit of Malaysian School Building population growth and economic development (Belussi et al, 2019). More policies were announced, such as National Petroleum Policy (1975), National Energy Policy (1979), National Depletion Policy (1980), Fifth Fuel Policy (2000), Energy Commission Act (2001), National Biofuel Policy (2006), and New Economic Model (2009), as an effort to reduce depletion of natural resources and to move towards sustainable development at a national scale (Karunakaran and Verayiah, 2017)

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