| 3.6.10 | Energy Benchmarks for Newly Constructed Medium Office Buildings, by Selected City and End-Use | ||||||||||||||||
| (thousand Btu per square foot) | |||||||||||||||||
| IECC Climate Zone | Heating | Cooling | Water Heating | Ventilation (1) | |||||||||||||
| Miami | 1A | 0.3 | 14.9 | 0.4 | 1.5 | ||||||||||||
| Houston | 2A | 3.2 | 11.8 | 0.5 | 1.3 | ||||||||||||
| Phoenix | 2B | 2.6 | 12.8 | 0.4 | 1.6 | ||||||||||||
| Atlanta | 3A | 4.5 | 7.5 | 0.5 | 1.2 | ||||||||||||
| Los Angeles | 3B | 0.9 | 4.8 | 0.5 | 1.0 | ||||||||||||
| Las Vegas | 3B | 2.4 | 9.3 | 0.5 | 1.4 | ||||||||||||
| San Francisco | 3C | 5.2 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | ||||||||||||
| Baltimore | 4A | 8.5 | 6.5 | 0.6 | 1.2 | ||||||||||||
| Albuquerque | 4B | 4.7 | 5.3 | 0.6 | 1.4 | ||||||||||||
| Seattle | 4C | 7.8 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 1.1 | ||||||||||||
| Chicago | 5A | 12.0 | 4.4 | 0.6 | 1.2 | ||||||||||||
| Boulder | 5B | 7.5 | 3.6 | 0.6 | 1.3 | ||||||||||||
| Minneapolis | 6A | 17.7 | 3.9 | 0.7 | 1.2 | ||||||||||||
| Helena | 6B | 13.3 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 1.2 | ||||||||||||
| Duluth | 7 | 21.0 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 | ||||||||||||
| Fairbanks | 8 | 38.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.1 | ||||||||||||
| Note(s): | Commercial building energy benchmarks are based off of the current stock of commercial buildings and are designed to provide a consistent baseline to compare building performance in energy-use simulations. The benchmark building had 53,628 square feet and 3 floors. Benchmark interior lighting energy = 10.7 thousand Btu/SF. Interior equipment energy consumption = 18.85 thousand Btu/SF. | ||||||||||||||||