Assignment & Course Output.

Title/Theme: Energy Efficiency Awareness, Management and Maintenance in School.

Objectives:

To understand environmental & energy awareness issues.
To understand climatic principles in relation to indoor environmental quality.
To understand and analyse building design characteristic in relation to human comfort criteria.
To understand and investigate building maintenance issues.
To understand and implement Simple Energy Management Program in Building
To produce report writing and verbal presentation.

This assignment require investigation of two (2) main areas :-

1. Building Operation & Maintenance.
Background information of the building & its occupants
Examine the building design and construction in relation to climatic design principles.
Examine the building operation and and maintenance.
Examine building maintenance issues and identify causes and potential solutions.
Proposed improvement strategies on building maintenance and operations through retrofitting such as;
Propose appropriate strategy and approach to improve;
Building condition.
Occupants Comfort.
Proposed improvement strategies through behavioral change;
To enhanced maintenance behavior and practices,
Other methods to improve building condition.

2. Energy Management Program
Examine the building operation and management system, structure and practices in the organisation.
Investigate indoor building condition and the level of comfort condition provided for the occupant / building users.
Carry out walk through energy audit – you may audit the whole building or only a typical floor (verify with your tutor).
Investigate actual monthly energy consumption from monthly bill or energy meter reading.
Identify any information of previous and current energy consumption recorded from electricity bill and through meter readings.
Identify and measure total floor area (AC & Without AC)
Carry out energy audit of all types of electrical light fittings, AC & ventilation systems, office/electrical appliances used in the building.
Identify and calculate hours of used daily, monthly and annually

Carry out survey on the EE awareness, knowledge and practice level among occupant in the building.
Interviews using questionnaire distributed to; - Building Users, - Building operator (if any).
Observations and Records any significant information related to users behaviors and building condition in relation to energy consumption patterns
Identify & records any potential of Energy Saving Measures (ESMs).
Calculate; - total energy consumption & load apportioning ; determine BEI, AEI, LEI, OEI, OCI.
Proposed improvement strategies and Energy Saving Measures (ESMs) such as through retrofitting;
Introducing innovative solution to building deterioration, comfort problem and energy wastage.
Enhanced EE by introducing passive and/ore active design solution.
Other method to improve building condition & EE.
Analysis, discussion and conclusions.

Output/Submission Requirement:
Report on A4.
Softcopy (CD) ;
MS Words
Slides MS PowerPoint.
1A2 sheets (summary).
Duration:
First briefing: Week 4
Submission & Seminar Presentation : Week 12 to 14.
Marks allocation: 40%