{"corpus_id":116638500,"paper_sha":"e10976ca0283470a49cccde99e4bc1c9666cf32d","doi":"10.1016/J.ENBUILD.2018.06.019","arxiv_id":null,"pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"mag_id":2809814932,"dblp_id":null,"acl_id":null,"title":"Energy performance of LEED-certified buildings from 2015 Chicago benchmarking data","year":2018,"publication_date":"2018-09-01","venue":"Energy and Buildings","journal":{"name":"Energy and Buildings","pages":null,"volume":null},"journal_issn":null,"journal_title":null,"publication_types":[],"pubmed_pub_types":null,"s2_fields_of_study":["Computer Science","Engineering","Environmental Science"],"reference_count":27,"citation_count":60,"influential_citation_count":3,"is_open_access":false,"arxiv_categories":null,"arxiv_license":null,"arxiv_journal_ref":null,"mesh_headings":null,"chemicals":null,"comments_corrections":null,"source_flags":1,"s2_open_access_pdf_url":null,"s2_open_access_landing_url":null,"s2_open_access_license":null,"s2_open_access_status":null,"pmc_open_access_pdf_url":null,"pmc_open_access_landing_url":null,"pmc_open_access_license":null,"pmc_open_access_status":null,"unpaywall_open_access_pdf_url":null,"unpaywall_open_access_landing_url":null,"unpaywall_open_access_license":null,"unpaywall_open_access_status":null,"abstract":"Abstract The City of Chicago recently publicized energy usage data for 1521 commercial properties with floor area 50000 ft2 (4650 m2) or greater for the year 2015. We have cross-referenced the Chicago benchmarking data with the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED project database to identify 132 Chicago properties that were LEED-certified in programs expected to reduce whole building energy use. The numbers of LEED-certified buildings are sufficient for Offices, K-12 Schools, and Multifamily Housing to learn whether these buildings use less energy than do similar conventional buildings in Chicago. For all three building types we find LEED-certified buildings use no less source energy than similar buildings that are not LEED-certified. Further, we find that LEED-certified schools use 17% more source energy than do other schools. For all three building types we find that LEED-certified buildings use roughly 10% less energy on site than comparable conventional buildings. This does not translate into source energy savings because LEED-certified buildings use relatively more electric energy. Finally, when LEED-certified buildings are compared with other newer buildings we find their source energy consumption to be similar. We believe this is the first such study of energy performance for LEED-certified schools.","claims":[{"public_id":"cl_959197f9d9a9a9b761b9d3f28cc0faf5","status":"active","text":"LEED-certified buildings have similar source energy consumption to other newer buildings.","confidence":0.9,"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/claims/cl_959197f9d9a9a9b761b9d3f28cc0faf5"},{"public_id":"cl_5c6ddb6c8b67e6a46865d4c7a38751c5","status":"active","text":"LEED-certified buildings use no less source energy than similar non-LEED buildings across offices, K-12 schools, and multifamily housing.","confidence":0.96,"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/claims/cl_5c6ddb6c8b67e6a46865d4c7a38751c5"},{"public_id":"cl_8e6a3598c7f0f5923bb504286da58e84","status":"active","text":"LEED-certified buildings use roughly 10% less on-site energy than comparable conventional buildings.","confidence":0.95,"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/claims/cl_8e6a3598c7f0f5923bb504286da58e84"},{"public_id":"cl_dfae61da10365ffb48f2fb4456982360","status":"active","text":"LEED-certified schools use 17% more source energy than other schools.","confidence":0.97,"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/claims/cl_dfae61da10365ffb48f2fb4456982360"},{"public_id":"cl_102d042ed8141fcfe087df726bb41929","status":"active","text":"The lower on-site energy use of LEED-certified buildings does not translate into source energy savings because they use relatively more electric energy.","confidence":0.93,"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/claims/cl_102d042ed8141fcfe087df726bb41929"}],"concepts":[{"public_id":"co_168027eb76324114f38dc1f1b03322d7","status":"active","name":"newer buildings","description":"Recently constructed or more recently built buildings used as a comparison group.","types":["building type"],"aliases":[],"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/concepts/co_168027eb76324114f38dc1f1b03322d7"},{"public_id":"co_2c4e7103fce34cab1a294df546dd19de","status":"active","name":"electric energy","description":"Electricity consumption contributing to a building's total energy use.","types":["energy form"],"aliases":["electricity"],"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/concepts/co_2c4e7103fce34cab1a294df546dd19de"},{"public_id":"co_7c16033ba9395bd88ebf80060307c20e","status":"active","name":"on-site energy","description":"Energy consumed directly at the building site.","types":["energy metric"],"aliases":["site energy"],"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/concepts/co_7c16033ba9395bd88ebf80060307c20e"},{"public_id":"co_7c706f427624a79d77823aa7d375ad2e","status":"active","name":"schools","description":"K-12 school buildings used as the comparison group for LEED-certified schools.","types":["building type"],"aliases":[],"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/concepts/co_7c706f427624a79d77823aa7d375ad2e"},{"public_id":"co_9655040bc2d1ef3b6a9aa3ab3842b0bd","status":"active","name":"conventional buildings","description":"Comparable buildings without LEED certification used as a reference group.","types":["building type"],"aliases":[],"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/concepts/co_9655040bc2d1ef3b6a9aa3ab3842b0bd"},{"public_id":"co_9f7e7a0c0b47a5f7d7e75c220c4bbb72","status":"active","name":"non-LEED buildings","description":"Comparable Chicago buildings that are not certified under LEED.","types":["building type"],"aliases":[],"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/concepts/co_9f7e7a0c0b47a5f7d7e75c220c4bbb72"},{"public_id":"co_a29a0a2ad203c42636830470fbdb47bb","status":"active","name":"LEED-certified buildings","description":"Commercial buildings in Chicago that are certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program.","types":["building type"],"aliases":["LEED buildings"],"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/concepts/co_a29a0a2ad203c42636830470fbdb47bb"},{"public_id":"co_ae4ad416f5346487a59164e07ac4e500","status":"active","name":"LEED-certified schools","description":"LEED-certified K-12 school buildings included in the Chicago benchmarking comparison.","types":["building type"],"aliases":["LEED schools"],"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/concepts/co_ae4ad416f5346487a59164e07ac4e500"},{"public_id":"co_ec4d22e061b89de4c6b7713bb37a9290","status":"active","name":"source energy","description":"Energy use measured at the primary energy source, accounting for conversion and delivery losses.","types":["energy metric"],"aliases":[],"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/concepts/co_ec4d22e061b89de4c6b7713bb37a9290"}],"external_ids":{"DOI":"10.1016/J.ENBUILD.2018.06.019","ArXiv":null,"PubMed":null,"PubMedCentral":null,"MAG":2809814932,"DBLP":null,"ACL":null},"open_access":{"is_open_access":false,"pdf_url":null,"landing_url":"https://sah.borca.ai/papers/116638500","source":null,"pdf_url_source":null,"license":null,"reason":"pdf_url_not_indexed"},"reference_availability":{"status":"available","references_indexed":true,"full_text_available":false,"full_text_source":null,"count_basis":"semantic_scholar_metadata","extraction_status":"not_applicable","reason":null},"source":{"provider":"episteme2","base_corpus":"semantic_scholar_dump","freshness_mode":"unknown","basis":["semantic_scholar_metadata","postgres_metadata"],"limits":["paper metadata is based on indexed upstream scholarly datasets","claims and concepts are available only for extracted papers","absence of claims or concepts means no extracted graph data is available in this response"],"status":"available","degraded":false,"degraded_reasons":[],"diagnostics":{"status":"available","degraded":false,"degraded_reasons":[],"metadata_status":"available","graph_status":"available","abstract_status":"available"},"source_flags":1},"paper_id":630541,"paper_uid":"3730ec60-d979-4770-a917-167dfee4060c","canonical_identity":{"paper_id":630541,"paper_uid":"3730ec60-d979-4770-a917-167dfee4060c","identity_status":"available","lookup_basis":"semantic_scholar_external_id","compatibility_path":"corpus_id"},"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/papers/116638500"}