Benchmarking Energy Use with Additional Place Characteristics

EnergyCAP Place Properties provide a variety of different ways to benchmark energy use. However, there may be additional place characteristics.

EXAMPLE: One EnergyCAP client writes: "I have a client that wants to benchmark buildings by comparing energy use to hours of occupancy. Is this possible?"

ANSWER:

1. Create a User-Defined Field (UDF) to put the building’s Occupancy Hours.
2. Add the Occupancy data to all relevant Places in the organization using the new UDF.
3. Create a Group for each 'flavor' of occupancy hours (8,12,20,24, etc).
4. Use the Administrator to populate the groups based on the UDF values. 

It will now be possible to benchmark by occupancy using the Groups benchmarking capabilities.