Publisher's Synopsis
This study based on the findings of an 18-month research project investigating power loads for office equipment in buildings, managed in close liaison with BRESCU, the Building Research Energy Conservation Unit. The full report for this work is Report No. 63310/1 "Power Demands due to Portable Office Equipment".;The research programme was divided into separate work areas for site monitoring and market research. The site monitoring work involved recording power demand values for individual machines in use in offices, and for entire office areas incorporating a number of mixed machines. The market reseach involved conducting a questionnaire survey of companies to determine the number of equipment items in offices and how they were being used. There is a further review of predictions for future office equipment trends.;The project findings indicate that there are a number of key factors influencing the size of small power loads in offices, and that given sufficient information, a realistic estimate of the load can be made.
