Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)

Commercial restaurants would be a major contributor to GHG emission due to heavy usage of heating, cooling, refrigeration elements, kitchen heat load and continuous operation in volume based. Thus, mitigating GHG emissions from this ever-growing industry offers the best means of overall GHG emission reduction in Malaysia. In order to significantly minimalize the GHG emission, it is important to tap into the positive progress of energy efficiency of equipment which contributes to total energy performance of a building. To analyse the amount of energy performance of a building, total energy consumption of a building need to be identified and later transformed into primary energy consumption such as oil, natural gas and electricity. Therefore, to ensure exact calculation of total energy consumption of a building, energy modeling method is applied to predict monthly energy consumption, annual energy cost, annual carbon emission and helps comparing differences of efficiency option to reduce overall cost of energy consumption of buildings. As a case study, a commercial restaurant building will be used for this research study. Based on the simulation tool for energy modeling, several criteria will be used to identify the satisfactory level of the energy performance of the selected building. In short, the objectives of this study are to evaluate the energy performance and carbon emission of a building, to suggest the energy efficiency measures using the energy modeling method and to develop an energy-efficient baseline model to reduce the usage of energy and the release of carbon emissions.