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A study of energy performance and audit of commercial mall in hot-summer/warm-winter climate zone in China

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The building energy performance improvement of large-scale public buildings is very important to release China’s energy shortage pressure. The aim of the study is to find out the building energy saving potentials of large-scale public and commercial buildings by energy audit. In this paper, the energy consumption, energy performance, and audit were carried out for a typical commercial mall, the so-called largest mall in Asia, located in a hot-summer and warm-winter climate zone. The total annual energy consumption reaches 210.01 kWh/m2, of which lighting energy consumption accounts for 30.03 kWh/m2 and the lift and elevator energy consumption accounts for 40.46 kWh/m2. It is by far higher than that of the average building energy consumption in the same category. However, the annual heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) energy consumption is only 87.19 kWh/m2 even though they run 24/7. It proves that the energy performance of the HVAC system is good. Therefore, the building energy savings potential mainly relies on reducing the excessive usage of lighting, lifts, and elevators.

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The authors would like to thank the joint financing by the Guangdong province Natural Science Funds (S2011040003755) and the Doctoral Research Funds (no. 083144) provided by Guangdong University of Technology.

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  1. School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, China

    Li Zhisheng, Liao Jiawen & Wang Xiaoxia

  2. Building Energy Solutions and Technologies, Inc, San Jose Office, San Jose, CA, 95134, USA

    Yaolin Lin

  3. School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510643, China

    Liu Xuhong

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Zhisheng, L., Lin, Y., Jiawen, L. et al. A study of energy performance and audit of commercial mall in hot-summer/warm-winter climate zone in China. Energy Efficiency 6, 459–473 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-012-9185-3

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