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Building Energy Data Exchange Specification Website Supports Stakeholders

April 10, 2015

The latest website from the Building Technology and Urban Systems (BTUS) Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Energy Technologies Area focuses on the Building Energy Data Exchange Specification (BEDES).

BEDES (pronounced "beads") is a dictionary of terms, definitions, and field formats created to help facilitate information exchange on building characteristics and energy use.

The website provides a dictionary and other resources to help stakeholders use the specification to make energy efficiency investment decisions, track building performance, and implement energy efficiency policies and programs. The BEDES dictionary can be used to support the analysis of building energy performance. The terms and definitions were gathered from a variety of sources, to be as complete as possible and to include existing implementations that characterize building energy use.

The work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and developed by Berkeley Lab in collaboration with stakeholder working groups. More information about the vision, goals and future plans of BEDES are available on the DOE BEDES website.

Seven research groups within BTUS work closely with industry to develop building technologies that increase energy efficiency and improve the comfort, health, and safety of building occupants. Learn more about what BTUS does, and how to work with them, by clicking the link below.

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Mark Wilson