Summary Annotation
In the article, ‘Improving the energy efficiency of the
existing building stock: A critical review of commercial and institutional
buildings’, Rajeev, R., Kasun, H. ,& Rehan, S.
(2015) analyzed on the energy efficiency approaches for operating commercial
and institutional buildings based on Canada’s energy use. The article stated
that these buildings have played a part in the emission of greenhouse gases in
Canada and further contributed in Canada’s secondary energy use. Enhancing the
energy efficiency of commercial and institutional buildings is a critical step
in the reduction of environmental impacts in Canada. Various approaches such as
integrating technical methods and technologies, having awareness programs among
building users, making occupancy and operation specific requirements and
enhancing building energy management were focused in the article to improve the
building energy performance. However, further research is required to better
understand the areas of building energy efficiency and to ensure organisations
develop energy management best practices. This included researches on ‘metering
and control systems, measures to ensure low cost thermally comfortable and
productive environments, state-of-the-art equipment and technologies that
provide heating or cooling and electricity with lower carbon footprint’. The
article then concluded that it was important to examine the research on life cycle
performances, implementation and cost factors related to the previously mentioned
approaches. This is to better enhance the energy efficiency of commercial and
institutional buildings.
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Article
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032115010540
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ReplyDeleteThanks, Aufal, for this clear and concise summary of an article clearly related to your team's project. Note though that this is not actually the structure I was looking for. We mentioned in class that I expected an annotated summary, of this style: https://student.unsw.edu.au/annotated-bibliography (Look at the end of the page, where the summary has numbered sentences. The numbers were not required.)
Thank you Aufal for this summary which is clearly related to your team's topic. I agree with you that in order to tackle the electricity consumption problem in a country, the building's efficiency should be monitored regularly as well as developing a energy saving management system. These methods eventually would enhance the buildings efficiency and allows the workers to understand better of the environmental problem.
ReplyDeleteThank you Aufal for sharing this annotated summary that is very beneficial to our project as it contains relevant information concerning the energy efficiency of buildings and the carbon footprint produced by these buildings.
ReplyDeleteSome minor grammatical errors for you to take note:
- Line 5: "... and further contributed in Canada’s secondary energy use" (in --> to)
Regards,
Nurul