%0 Report
%A Brett C Singer
%A Paul A Mathew
%A Steve E Greenberg
%A William F Tschudi
%A Dale A Sartor
%A Susan Strom
%A Walter Vernon
%C Berkeley
%D 2009
%I Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
%P 32
%T Hospital Energy Benchmarking Guidance
%2 LBNL-2738E
%8 09/2009
%X <p>This document describes an energy benchmarking framework for hospitals. The document is organized as follows. The introduction provides a brief primer on benchmarking and its application to hospitals. The next two sections discuss special considerations including the identification of normalizing factors. The presentation of metrics is preceded by a description of the overall framework and the rationale for the grouping of metrics. Following the presentation of metrics, a high-level protocol is provided. The next section presents draft benchmarks for some metrics; benchmarks are not available for many metrics owing to a lack of data. This document ends with a list of research needs for further development.</p>