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Long Term Operating, Maintance, and Repair Benchmarking Studies

  • 1.  Long Term Operating, Maintance, and Repair Benchmarking Studies

    Posted 08-24-2010 12:40 PM
    This message has been cross posted to the following Discussion Forums: Committee on the Environment and Committee on Design .
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    I wanted to share and request feedback for a project I'm working on that aims to benchmark long term operating costs for a variety of building types in the hopes searching for design solutions to high ongoing expenses.  I've found fragmented data that you might find useful, but really I'm writing in the hopes that you can point me to new sources of info, particularly in the hospitality sector:
    • BOMA Experience Exchange Report: I love this report, but it's limited to commercial offices only.  If I could have this level of detail in every sector this project would be much easier.
    • AS&U Magazines' Annual Maintenance and Operations Studies: College and K-12:  These are good (and FREE), but not quite the level of detail of the BOMA EER.
    • US Energy Information Administrations Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey:  Good source for energy benchmarks across sectors, including breakdowns of the end-uses of the energy by sector. Unfortunately, we're still stuck with the 2003 data (2007 info has been 'in process' for years now).  
    Has anyone purchased any of the Whitestone family of products, particularly the MARS forecast system? Any feedback you may have on cost/benefits of these would be appreciated.  

    Best,

    Joel McKellar, LEED AP BD+C

    Research
    Associate
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