Identifying Energy Savings Opportunities for a Multi-use Venue Building

Abstract

Multi-use venue buildings are an extreme example of buildings with flexible use. Such buildings have high occupant diversity factors and inconsistent occupant-building interaction leading to highly changeable demands of the building services. Intensive monitoring of a case study multi-use venue building was carried out in order to analyse its energy performance and identify energy saving opportunities. Results are presented from three distinct uses of the building, with each analysed as a separate case study. The analysis focused on exploring relationships between variables for each event; identifying multiple energy savings opportunities. Poor building management system (BMS) scheduling led to 49% of total gas use across all three events being estimated as waste, whereas inappropriate set points accounted for 7%. Event organiser behaviour led to 6% of total electricity across all three events estimated as waste, whereas inflexible controls accounted for 2%. Based on these results, venue building managers may find that prior knowledge of building activity and more accurate occupancy hours could yield significant energy savings through proactive energy management.

Space and spatial practices in times of confinement. Evidence from three European countries: Austria, France and Poland

“…Thus, the quest and challenge for multi-use of buildings and corresponding spaces are returning to academic, professional and municipal discussion. This is fuelled not only by sustainability reasons (see, for example, Ansari et al 2018) but also by the functionality and optimization of the use of urban spaces. The multi-use of buildings and places can easily be coupled with the question of temporary use of buildings and places (see, for example, Bishop and Williams 2012;Blumner 2006;Galdini 2020;Madanipour 2018) in the context of facilitating residents' life under lockdown restrictions.…”