Explainer

Energy Performance: Learn the Lingo

Designing a building or reporting on performance for the AIA 2030 Commitment? The building industry has standard—and sometimes confusing—ways of measuring energy. Here are the key terms you’ll need to get the job done.

Building performance metrics used to be the exclusive purview of engineers and energy modelers. But as the need to decarbonize our built environment gets increasingly urgent, project teams must collaborate across disciplines to take the biggest step forward in that work—using less energy.

Here are a few of the energy metrics you’ll need to understand in order to support that process.

Published July 15, 2024

Melton, P., & Malin, N. (2024, July 15). Energy Performance: Learn the Lingo. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/explainer/energy-performance-learn-lingo