Course Overview
Presents an overview of energy audits aimed at identifying opportunities for energy reduction in existing buildings. Students will gain an understanding on how to procure an energy audit, how to carry out an energy audit, how to evaluate energy audits competed and how to plan for the implementation of the findings.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Not offered this term
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss potential benefits of conducting energy audits.
- Identify the purpose of various energy audit types, including heat energy (heating, ventilation, refrigeration), electrical energy (lighting and non-lighting).
- Describe the energy auditing process.
- Analyze building operations for energy use/demand as well as potential energy sources.
- Demonstrate an awareness of various measurement techniques and energy auditing tools.
- Identify and interpret opportunities for energy and energy cost savings, including best practices, appropriate energy-saving technologies, system retrofits, structural improvements involving alternate sources of energy and alternate passive substitute strategies, and energy conservation behaviour changes among building occupants.
- Differentiate between energy savings and energy cost savings.
- Describe interactive effects between various energy using systems.
- Perform a high level energy audit on a real building and real systems.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2009
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