Context of Application

Benchmarking is the practice of comparing the measured performance of a device, process, facility, or organization to itself, its peers, or established norms, with the goal of informing and motivating performance improvement. When applied to building energy use, benchmarking serves as a mechanism to measure energy performance of a single building over time, relative to other similar buildings, or to modeled simulations of a reference building built to a specific standard (such as an energy code)*

Problem to Solve

The facility manager needs to:

Benchmark energy usage with respect to other comparable devices, processes, facilities, or departments managed from a single location (identify efficient facility vs inefficient facility).
Identify outliers and other levers to target energy savings programs.

Purpose of the Application

Benchmark multi-site energy usages

Multi-site visualization to enable benchmarking across multiple organizations, facilities, processes, or devices from a centralized location
Comparison of energy usage by normalizing consumption with respect to area, production volume, or other drivers

The good performers could be used as a model to improve the poor performers.

Improve understanding

It improves understanding of what makes an efficient organization, facility, process, or device use less energy than an inefficient one.

Building Area Benchmarking