Commercial Building Benchmarking Database for India - Requirements and Considerations

This document provides guidance on technical requirements and considerations for a
database to support commercial building benchmarking programs in India. The primary
audience for this report are planners and implementers of benchmarking programs, who
can use this document as the basis for a scope of work for developing a benchmarking
database. The document may also be useful to other entities such as R&D institutions
that are interested in maintaining a database of commercial building energy use data.
This document was developed as part of the bilateral US-India Joint Center for Building
Energy Research and Development (CBERD) program task on Monitoring and
Benchmarking.