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