ASHRAE 1836-RP main list of energy efficiency measures

Energy Efficiency Measures (EEMs) play a central role throughout the building energy efficiency industry, and lists of EEMs therefore exist in a variety of resources. However, each of these use different conventions for describing and organizing measures, which presents a major challenge for aggregating information across these resources.  The ASHRAE 1836-RP main list of energy efficiency measures was assembled as part of ASHRAE Research Project 1836 in order to discover trends in how existing resources describe and organize EEMs.  Analysis of this dataset supported the overall objective of 1836-RP, which was to develop a standardized system for the categorization and characterization of EEMs.

The dataset contains the complete list of 3,490 EEMs assembled and analyzed as part of 1836-RP. The EEMs were collected from 16 different source documents during the 1836-RP literature review from September 2019 through July 2020. An initial list of suggested sources was provided by the members of the 1836-RP Project Advisory Board, and additional documents were added through the authors’ literature review.

A data dictionary can be found in the README.txt file.  Additional information on working with this dataset can be found in the project repository: https://github.com/retrofit-lab/ashrae-1836-rp-text-mining