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Dr Salvador Acha

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Senior Research Fellow
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 3379salvador.acha Website CV

 
 
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453AACE ExtensionSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Gulliford:2022:10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111683,
author = {Gulliford, MJS and Orlebar, RH and Bird, MH and Acha, S and Shah, N},
doi = {10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111683},
journal = {Energy and Buildings},
pages = {111683--111683},
title = {Developing a dynamic carbon benchmarking method for large building property estates},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111683},
volume = {256},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - As supermarkets are known to be energy intensive, improvements made to their efficiency can enable operators to reduce not only carbon emissions but also costs, in line with corporate and legislative targets. This study presents a novel benchmarking method to appraise emission and cost performances across a portfolio, enabling building managers to identify sites that are underperforming, taking as a case study a large number of food retail stores. Multiple layers, detailed variable selection including weather features and regression technique comparisons (Multivariate Linear Regression (MLR), Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Decision Tree (DT)), are considered in model construction. Efficiency is evaluated on multiple bases with a focus on emissions. These are clustered together to produce a benchmark to inform investment decision-making across a portfolio. The DT technique was found to be the most effective, producing a benchmark with low average error (1.5 kgCO2 m−2 period−1) and high maximum error (21 kgCO2 m−2 period−1) indicating high accuracy and high discernment respectively. This model also correctly classified buildings known to perform poorly into the worst 30% of buildings in the portfolio. This work highlights the need for further research into natural gas consumption benchmarking and particularly the use of humidity data to better understand the issues in decarbonising heat.
AU  - Gulliford,MJS
AU  - Orlebar,RH
AU  - Bird,MH
AU  - Acha,S
AU  - Shah,N
DO  - 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111683
EP  - 111683
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 0378-7788
SP  - 111683
TI  - Developing a dynamic carbon benchmarking method for large building property estates
T2  - Energy and Buildings
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111683
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778821009671?via%3Dihub
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/93491
VL  - 256
ER  -
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