Establishment of a Building Audit Procedure and Analysis for the Kansas Department of Transportation Phase 2A: Buildings

Over the past few years, state governments and entities have become concerned with the energy consumption and efficiency of their facilities. An effective manner to identify the potential to reduce energy and water consumption and increase building efficiency, as well as track the effect of improvements, is to establish a facility’s baseline resource use as completed in phase one of Kansas Department of Transportation's (KDOT's) research program. This baseline information when compared to similar facilities can be used to justify changes to improve the current facility. KDOT has funded a second phase of research that focused on establishing a proper auditing procedure as an additional and more complete method of identifying the areas within their buildings that should be considered for improvement. This second phase of the research not only established a procedure for the audit but also created a list of the most common areas within KDOT owned facilities that may be considered for improvement. This list of recommendations can be used as a starting point but can also be further analyzed for their economic viability using the spreadsheet created to calculate the life cycle costs and return on investments. The audit procedure, as well as the economic spread sheet, was created in a manner to allow individual facility managers the ability to use them to assess buildings under their supervision.

• Record URL:
  • http://dmsweb.ksdot.org/AppNetProd/docpop/docpop.aspx?clienttype=html&docid=9873184
• Record URL:
  • http://dmsweb.ksdot.org/AppNetProd/docpop/docpop.aspx?clienttype=html&docid=9011006
• Summary URL:
  • http://dmsweb.ksdot.org/AppNetProd/docpop/docpop.aspx?clienttype=html&docid=9011007
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Appendices A-F (228p.) are available in a separate document at the provided URL.
• Corporate Authors:

  Kansas State University Transportation Center

  Kansas State University
  Department of Civil Engineering
  Manhattan, KS  United States  66506

  Kansas Department of Transportation

  Bureau of Research
  2300 SW Van Buren Street
  Topeka, KS  United States  66611-1195
• Authors:
  • Riding, Kyle A
  • Stokes, Robert W
  • Carter, David
  • Keen, Julia
  • Gentry, Rebecca
  • Pierson, Kimberly
• Publication Date: 2013-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 97p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Auditing; Energy consumption; Life cycle costing; Office buildings; Recommendations; Return on investment; Structures
• Identifier Terms: Kansas Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Energy; Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General); I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01500378
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: K-TRAN: KSU-12-5
• Contract Numbers: C1910
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Dec 3 2013 9:09AM