Benchmarking the energy performance for cooling purposes in buildings is an important tool for energy management. This paper proposes a novel index and develops a benchmarking process for energy performance for cooling purposes by means of data envelopment analysis and cooling degree hour...

Traditional benchmarking of building energy performance usually starts by considering a wide range of different factors and giving these factors different weights to help reach one general indicator measuring a building’s overall energy performance. For obtaining more specific information in...