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National scale modeling of the U.S. commercial building stock supported by U.S. DOE, LADWP, and others and maintained by NREL
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Fix segmentation name and logic for food service #86

Closed asparke2 closed 7 months ago

asparke2 commented 9 months ago

Currently, all RetailStripMall buildings (even those with no food service component) are being assigned to the B: Food-Service, Freestanding and in Strip Malls with Small Packaged Units.

  1. Assign any RetailStripMall buildings with no restaurant component to the "
  2. Rename the "B: Food-Service, Freestanding and in Strip Malls with Small Packaged Units" to "B: Buildings with Some Food-Service, Freestanding and in Strip Malls with Small Packaged Units"

So the resulting two segments would be:

SEG_A = 'A: Non Food-Service Buildings with Small Packaged Units'
SEG_B = 'B: Buildings with Some Food-Service, Freestanding and in Strip Malls with Small Packaged Units'
asparke2 commented 9 months ago

@mdahlhausen what do you think about the proposed change here to address the issue you identified with the phase II segmentation?

mdahlhausen commented 9 months ago

I don't like it; I think it is confusing to lump restaurants together with a significant amount of retail. A less than ideal but workable solution is to make 3 segments: 1) retail with no food service, 2) strip malls with some food service, and 3) stand-alone restaurants.

asparke2 commented 9 months ago

Solution determined during team discussion:

  1. All strip-malls with packaged units and 0% restaurant go into the Non Food-Service Buildings with Small Packaged Units segment.
  2. The previous Food-Service, Freestanding and in Strip Malls with Small Packaged Units segment is renamed Food-Service Buildings with Small Packaged Units to indicate that it contains buildings that are 100% food service.
  3. All strip-malls with >0% restaurant go into their own, new Strip Malls with some Food-Service with Small Packaged Units segment to indicate buildings that are a mix of food-service and non-food-service tenants. Although the upgrades applicable to this segment will look like a mash-up of the first two segments, the savings per floor area for any given upgrade (for example, a cooking equipment retrofit) will be lower because the retrofit will only apply to some of the tenant spaces in the building.