2004 年 69 巻 580 号 p. 77-84
In order to predict the energy demand of buildings, it is important to establish a database of energy consumption accurately for various buildings. As the commercial building is becoming large-scale and multipurpose, the traditional energy basic unit (average-based) is considered not to be suitable to the energy prediction for this kind of buildings. This study aims at proposing a method to establish the energy basic unit (floor utilization based) that can be used to predict energy more accurately. For this purpose, investigations on General Merchandising Store were conducted in Tokyo and Chiba area. Based on the results, the patterns and characteristics of the energy demand are analyzed in this paper and a new energy basic unit called as "floor utilization based energy demand basic unit" is presented. This new basic unit is shown to be more accurate than the conventional one.