MEBS6016 Energy Performance of Buildings

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Energy Efficiency in Buildings (I)

1.  Energy Policy

• Energy policy and government's role
• Legal framework and standards
• Energy policy of Hong Kong

2.  Building Energy Standards

• Motivation and history
• Types of standards and examples
• Basic structure and compliance approaches
• Hong Kong situation
• Building energy codes in Mainland China

3.  Assessment of Performance

• What is performance?
• Building energy performance
• Benchmarking energy performance
• Energy and environmental performance

4.  EU Directive on Energy Performance of Buildings

• Important move by the European Union
• Implications of the EU Directive
• Marketing energy efficiency for buildings (by EuroACE) [PowerPoint]

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Video Presentation:

• Best Practice Advice in Energy [videorecording, 8 min.], Television Education Network, Crowborough, East Sussex, 2001. [AV 697.9 B56]

Further Reading:

• Energy Efficiency Standards for Building Design (Web-based lecture by Dr. Sam C M Hui)
• Hong Kong and China:-
• Building energy standards and codes (BESC): Hong Kong and China  http://www.arch.hku.hk/research/BEER/besc.htm#HK
• Hong Kong Government, 1995. Building (Energy Efficiency) Regulation, Cap. 123 sub. Leg. M (L.N. 144 of 1995), Government Printer, Hong Kong. [online][CAP123 Building Regulations]
• Energy Efficiency Registration Scheme for Buildings http://www.emsd.gov.hk/emsd/eng/pee/eersb_pub_cp.shtml
• Li Peng's China Energy Speech [PNL]
• Hui, S. C. M., 2000. Building energy efficiency standards in Hong Kong and mainland China, In Proc. of the 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 20-25 August 2000, Pacific Grove, California. [PDF]
• Europe:-
• CIBSE, 2003. Reducing Emissions through Energy Efficiency, CIBSE Briefing 8, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, London. [PDF]
• CIBSE, 2003. The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, CIBSE Briefing 6, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, London. [PDF]
• European Union, 2002. EU Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings, 2002/91/EC, 16 December 2002. [PDF]
• USA:-
• Building Energy Efficiency Basics http://www.eere.energy.gov/EE/buildings_basics.html

Web Links:

• The European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EuroACE) http://www.euroace.org/
• Marketing energy efficiency for buildings [PowerPoint]
• US Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Buildings http://www.eere.energy.gov/EE/buildings.html

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| Created: Dec 2003 | Update: 5 Feb 2004 | By: cmhui@hku.hk |