Why is the floor area essential for the feedback on energy use?

The floor area is not essential for plotting consumption, money spend and emissions against time or the performance line and control chart.

However the floor area is needed if you want SMEasure to predict energy use/money spend or get an indicative A-G ratings Display Energy Certificate (DEC) for the building(s) you are energy monitoring against the standard benchmarks.

Within a few months of winter energy use data SMEasure can predict annual energy use because of using the weekly heating degree days as well as indicatively calculate your A-G rating against the best practice benchmark for the building category you selected. The more weekly meter reading data inputting into the SMEasure the increased robustness of the results presented to you SMEasure.

SMEasure currently uses CIBSE Guide F Building Energy Performance Benchmarks to provide users with an indicative DEC, but by using our sofeware you are contributing to the improvement of these benchmarking. For example, we are working closely with Julie's Bicycle, experts in greening the creative industries, to expand the benchmarking options for cultural buildings so as to reflect the diversity of the cultural estate.