Energy Evaluation and Energy Savings Analysis with the 2 Selection of AC Systems in an Educational Building

This paper presents an energy performance assessment on educational building in Barranquilla, Colombia. The electricity consumption was assessed using the software DesignBuilder for two different Air Conditioning (AC) systems. current intensity is 215.3 kWh/m2-year and centralized AC systems with individual fan coils a water chiller share 66% of total lighting at 16%. simulation technology change to Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) resulted improvement 38% 88 significant savings life-cycle cost buildings.