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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2013.060</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2013.060</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>An enhanced signature analysis for calibrating the as-built energy simulation of a commercial building</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
        <name><surname>Song</surname><given-names>Suwon</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
        <email>swsong@kict.re.kr</email>
      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Haberl</surname><given-names>Jeff S.</given-names></name>
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      </contrib>
      <aff id="aff1">Green Building Research Division, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Goyang-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, 411-712, Korea</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Department of Architecture, Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-3581, USA</aff>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>26</day><month>08</month><year>2013</year></pub-date>
      <volume>12</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">9789881543950</isbn>
      <fpage>534</fpage>
      <lpage>540</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2013.060"/>
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        <date date-type="received"><string-date>26 August 2013</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2013 Copyright WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract><p>Calibrated simulation can be used to evaluate energy conservation measures (ECMs) and identify potential energy savings for building energy retrofits and commissioning. However, it has been limited for use with dynamic simulation tools (e.g., DOE-2 and EnergyPlus) due to its complexity of input variables and output energy data. This study proposes an enhanced signature analysis with percentile expression for model calibration and demonstrates its use for a case-study building, along with significant calibration factors, including: building thermal mass, undocumented exhaust air, and maximum supply air temperature. As a result, the as-built calibrated model was determined to have an overall daily CV(RMSE) of 19.69% and a daily MBE of 6.19%.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>Calibrated Simulation</kwd>
        <kwd>Signature Analysis</kwd>
        <kwd>Calibration Factors</kwd>
        <kwd>Energy conservation measures(ECMs)</kwd>
        <kwd>Energy retrofits and commissioning</kwd>
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      <conference>
        <conf-date>26 to 29 August 2013</conf-date>
        <conf-name>12th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2013</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>12</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Hong Kong, China</conf-loc>
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