| Title |
A Review on the Definition Methods of Prototypical Office Building for Energy Analysis |
| Authors |
Kim, Hye-Jin ; Seo, Dong-Hyun |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_SC.2018.34.3.103 |
| Keywords |
Prototypical Building ; Prototypical Office Building ; Reference Building ; Building Energy Model |
| Abstract |
A prototypical building that represents the energy characteristics of buildings can be used as a mean of improving building energy efficiency by supporting policy makers, researchers, architects and engineers. This paper is a fundamental study for the definition of prototypical office building models of Korea. First of all, the term "prototypical buildings" was defined in the context of the representatives of building stock by examining the meanings used from many previous researches. Then, building energy related DB of Korea that is available from public and governmental organization such as MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) and KEEI (Korea Energy Economics Institute) is analyzed in terms of materials for prototypical building definition. Finally, numerous prototypical building studies since 1990's from all of the world were classified with three criteria based on the degrees of the used DB and assumptions in defining prototypical building. The found three criteria are EDPB (Empirical Decision based Prototypical Building), HIPB (Hybrid Information based Prototypical Building) SAPB (Statistical Analysis based Prototypical Building). |