THE ENERGY ASSESMENT OF THE BUILDING SERVICES FACULTY OF CLUJ-NAPOCA

Abstract

Lighting Engineering Laboratory – LEL – is one of the major lighting independent consultants in the north-west side of Romania. The laboratory is affiliated to the Building Services Faculty of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. Over the past few years, the Lighting Engineering Laboratory carefully mapped the university’s energy use. To estimate the actual level of energy efficiency at our faculty we compared previous consumption data to obtain the trends of energy consumption. The paper presents the energy consumptions recorded for the Building Services Faculty of Cluj-Napoca. This should be the very first step to achieve the most appropriate energy efficiency solutions for the university’s buildings. Some lighting refurbishments were also tested as case studies. A new design for an active educational building that will produce more energy that it consumes – was proposed. The present paper tries to determine the detailed aspects of the building energy consumption, proposing at the same time some energy efficiency solutions economically viable for the most educational buildings in the Eastern Europe.

Keywords

• energy consumption
• energy efficiency
• led lamps
• sustainable lighting
• green buildings