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  1. A large, two-story office building has a first floor whichmeasures 500 ft by 750 ft and a second story which is 500 ft by 500ft. This building used 76,650 GWh of electricity last year and120,035 therms of natural gas.

    1. a) What is the EUI of the building? How does this compare tosimilar buildings?

    2. b) Currently the office encourages carpooling and publictransportation and therefore does not have a parking structureattached. They are considering adding this as an amenity to theiremployees. How does an unheated, 145,000 square feet parking garagechange the EUI? How might this

      impact an energy audit of the building?

    3. c) By 2025, the company would like to add solar panels on theroof of the building to create on-site

      electricity. These panels are projected to create a minimum of20,000 kWh, annually. What is thebuilding’s new EUI?

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a The EUI energy use intensity of the building is calculated by dividing the total power consumed divided by the area of the building Here the electricity consumed by the building 76650 GWh 766503412106 kBTU 261531011 kBTU The natural gas    See Answer
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