Development of a baseline building model of auto service and repair shop

To support the ASHRAE Building Energy Quotient (bEQ) standard, the ASHRAE Research 1771 is trying to identify baseline building energy models for major commercial buildings so that the modeled source EUI is close to the median source EUI of the same type of buildings in the 2003 CBECS data. This paper introduces the procedure of creating a baseline model for the auto service and repair shops as they account for 2% quantity, 0.3% total floor area, and 0.2% energy consumption among the commercial buildings. First, we introduced a method to create the geometry model using the data collected from the 2003 CBECS data, reports, and existing building samples. Then a systematic approach is developed to identify the model inputs unrelated to geometry. Ultimately, the baseline model of auto service and repair shop is validated by using the median source EUI from the 2003 CBECS data. The results indicate that the relative errors between the source EUI of the new model and the median EUI from the 2003 CBECS data is 12.33%.