Description

Offers guidance to building designers and operating staff on the targets for energy use and conservation for the design and operation of buildings.

Scope

This Standard sets out three objectives:

• To identify appropriate, achievable target energy budgets, for use either by designers or operators
• To offer guidance to designers, to pinpoint the commonly importantly choices for tehm to consider. The correct decision will usually be a result of a complex interplay between several partly conflicting requirements.
• To offer guidance to operating staff responsible for running a building, and useful techniques and points for attention, to achieve satisfactory low-energy performance.