Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code

Kim, Hye Gi; Kim, Hyun Jun; Jeon, Chae Hwan; Chae, Myeong Won; Cho, Young Hum; Kim, Sun Sook

doi:10.3390/en13184955

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Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code

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Hye Gi Kim

¹,

Hyun Jun Kim

¹,

Chae Hwan Jeon

¹,

Myeong Won Chae

¹,

Young Hum Cho

² and

Sun Sook Kim

^1,*

¹

Department of Architecture, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea

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Department of Architecture, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk 38541, Korea

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Energies 2020, 13(18), 4955; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184955

Submission received: 19 August 2020 / Revised: 11 September 2020 / Accepted: 18 September 2020 / Published: 21 September 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Systems for the Era of Zero-Energy Buildings)

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Building energy codes are key policy tools for improving building energy efficiency by defining the minimum requirement for the energy performance of new buildings. In Korea, the building energy code was focused on prescriptive criteria for a long time but is now gradually introducing performance criteria. However, switching to performance criteria is not straightforward because of the resistance of the market to abandoning the well-consolidated prescriptive criteria. The objective of this study is to derive appropriate measures to strengthen the prescriptive criteria and the performance criteria, considering both the energy-saving effect and the economic efficiency for new office buildings and educational buildings to increase the market acceptance of the building energy codes. To this end, the energy-saving effects of reference buildings resulting from the reinforcement of the prescriptive criteria in the past have been first analyzed. Then, based on the collected energy performance parameters and cost data, the economic efficiency relative to the energy saving deriving from the application of passive and active energy conservation measures (ECMs) were analyzed, and future building energy code’s reinforcement measures were derived.

Keywords: building energy code; energy conservation measure; energy saving ratio; investment cost

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Kim, H.G.; Kim, H.J.; Jeon, C.H.; Chae, M.W.; Cho, Y.H.; Kim, S.S. Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code. Energies 2020, 13, 4955. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184955

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Kim HG, Kim HJ, Jeon CH, Chae MW, Cho YH, Kim SS. Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code. Energies. 2020; 13(18):4955. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184955

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Kim, Hye Gi, Hyun Jun Kim, Chae Hwan Jeon, Myeong Won Chae, Young Hum Cho, and Sun Sook Kim. 2020. "Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code" Energies 13, no. 18: 4955. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184955

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Kim, H. G., Kim, H. J., Jeon, C. H., Chae, M. W., Cho, Y. H., & Kim, S. S. (2020). Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code. Energies, 13(18), 4955. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184955

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