Meghaa Gangahar
Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy,
New Delhi, India
Akash Goenka
Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy,
New Delhi, India
Corresponding Author: akash@aeee.in
Sandeep Kachhawa
Alliance for an Energy efficient Economy,
New Delhi, India
Sangeeta Mathew
Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy,
New Delhi, India
Satish Kumar
Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy,
New Delhi, India
Rajita Kurup
Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India
Indumathi Arunan
Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India
Sunila Dixit
Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India
Poornima Prabhakaran
Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India
Cite this article
Highlights
- The lived experience of the survey administrators of a nationwide hospital energy survey capturing on-ground realities and learnings often precluded from technical survey reports
- Transferrable learnings that can help make future commercial building energy consumption surveys quicker, less cumbersome, less costly, and more effective
Abstract
As part of the effort to foster a more systematic approach to commercial building energy data collection and reporting, this paper aims to bring out the “lived experience” of on-ground data collection from the recently concluded Hospital Energy Consumption Survey conceptualized and conducted by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, under the aegis of the National Program for Climate Change and Human Health. It was administered and overseen by the Alliance for Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE) and the Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC). This paper captures the authors’ on-ground survey experience and transferable learning, typically precluded from technical survey reports. The authors believe that given the challenges in collecting relevant energy data from the buildings sector, their experiences can offer a unique insight into the on-ground realities of collecting technical data and suggest transferrable learnings that can help make future commercial building energy consumption surveys quicker, less cumbersome, less costly, and more effective.
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Bishal Thapa
Fred Sherman
Sumedha Malaviya
Satish Kumar
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