Building Comfort Systems Lab Design
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Contents
Building Comfort Systems Lab Summary
Goals of Lab
Decisions to be made from Lab
Expected Outcomes
Methodology
General
- Data Collection - Interval TBD (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual?)
- Automated - Through DDC, data loggers, power meters with trending
- Manual - Handheld meters
- Analysis of Data/Trending - Interval TBD (monthly, quarterly, annual?)
- Automated - Trends through DDC, data loggers
- Manual - Excel, Universal Translator
- Occupant Feedback - Interval TBD (daily at first, then weekly summary?)
- Comfort Survey - numerical so can be trended with comments section also
- Continuous Improvement - Weekly adjustments / TBD energy reviews & continous commissioning/re-commissioning
- Friday session to review previous week and set up for weekend/next week - All (on site and remote)
- Previous week general comfort and energy usage feedback review
- Weather forecast and occupancy schedule for next 7 days
- Recommended system optimizations to implement, if any
Elements of Lab
- Heating comfort & energy
- Cooling comfort & energy
- Dehumidification & ventilation comfort & energy
- Domestic hot water availability/usage & energy
- Lighting comfort & energy
Process Measurements
Participants & Time Frames
- Operation - Daily Occupied / Event Special Occupied / Nightly Unoccupied / Weekend / Holiday / Emergency Shutdown (e.g. snow day)
- Daily On Site - Kirsten, Intern, Tom
- Daily Off Site - Laurie, Intern, Tom
- Operation - Daily Occupied / Event Special Occupied / Nightly Unoccupied / Weekend / Holiday / Emergency Shutdown (e.g. snow day)
General Questions
- See detail below for specific questions related to the individual labs.
Building Comfort Systems Labs Detail
Heating System Lab
- Goals of Lab
- Decisions to be made from Lab
- Expected Outcomes
- Methodology
- Process Measurements
- Participants & Time Frames
- Questions
Cooling System Lab
- Goals of Lab
- Decisions to be made from Lab
- Expected Outcomes
- Methodology
- Process Measurements
- Participants & Time Frames
- Questions
Dehumidification & Ventilation System Lab
- Goals of Lab
- Decisions to be made from Lab
- Expected Outcomes
- Methodology
- Process Measurements
- Participants & Time Frames
- Questions
Domestic Hot Water System Lab
- Goals of Lab
- Decisions to be made from Lab
- Expected Outcomes
- Methodology
- Process Measurements
- Participants & Time Frames
- Questions
Lighting System Lab
- Goals of Lab
- Decisions to be made from Lab
- Expected Outcomes
- Methodology
- Process Measurements
- Participants & Time Frames
- Questions