Investment grade energy audit : Making smart energy choices / Shirley J. Hansen, James W. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Shirley J., 1928- author.

Contributor:

Brown, James W., 1950- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy conservation.

Energy policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Investment Grade Energy Audit

Place of Publication:

Lilburn, Georgia : M. Dekker, 2003.

Summary:

This book was written to give energy-involved professionals the tools they need to take their energy audits to the next level, and use them to accurately predict a building's future energy use and true savings potential. Going beyond the conventional energy audit, which can lead to projections which are frequently off by as much as 20%, this book provides detailed guidelines on how to use the new tool, the investment grade audit (IGA), which enables prediction of savings with much greater accuracy. Building on the traditional audit, the IGA requires the addition of a ''risk assessment componen.

Contents:

How auditing evolved

Why the traditional audit is just not good enough

Weighing human behavior

Building the M & V foundation

The IAQ fit

Financing issues and the IGA

Working risk into the mix

Potential mitigating strategies

The IGA report

Energy management planning : the next level

Appendix A M & V options

Appendix B Sample energy policy.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-88173-464-0