@inproceedings{24863,
  author = {Satkartar Kinney and Mary Ann Piette},
  title = {Development of a California Commercial Building Benchmarking Database},
  abstract = {<p>Building energy benchmarking is a useful starting point for commercial building owners and operators to target energy savings opportunities. There are a number of tools and methods for benchmarking energy use. Benchmarking based on regional data can provides more relevant information for California buildings than national tools such as Energy Star.</p><p>This paper discusses issues related to benchmarking commercial building energy use and the development of Cal-Arch, a building energy benchmarking database for California. Currently Cal-Arch uses existing survey data from California's Commercial End Use Survey (CEUS), a largely underutilized wealth of information collected by California's major utilities. DOE's Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) is used by a similar tool, Arch, and by a number of other benchmarking tools. Future versions of Arch/Cal-Arch will utilize additional data sources including modeled data and individual buildings to expand the database.</p>},
  year = {2002},
  journal = {2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  pages = {7.109-7.120},
  month = {05/2002},
  address = {Pacific Grove, CA},
  language = {eng},
}