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RP1033: Mainstreaming High Performance Commercial Building HVAC

Project leader name: 
Ian Dixon, AECOM
Project status: 
Complete
Project period: 
01/2017 to 06/2018

This project aims to investigate how to mainstream high performance Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) in commercial buildings. The project will tackle this issue with three areas of work, which are to:

  • Tackle the minimum energy requirements of the National Construction Code regarding energy consumption metrics for HVAC in commercial buildings.
  • Investigate the current best practice of HVAC designs in Australian commercial buildings and communicate that to industry to raise standards.
  • Investigate the five largest energy consuming components in a high performance commercial HVAC system and closely examine if there are opportunities for further improving current best practice.

Publications related to this project

CRCLCL Project Reports
This report presents a summary of the findings and activities of Stage 2 of the LCL-CRC research project RP 1033 “High Performance Commercial Building HVAC”. This research examined the HVAC design of a high performance commercial office building (hereafter referred to as the case study building)...
Peer Reviewed Research Publications
This report presents a summary of the findings and activities of Stage 3 of the LCL-CRC research project RP 1033 “High Performance Commercial Building HVAC”.