ENERGY STAR Score for Senior Living Communities and Residential Care Facilities in Canada
Last Updated: 04-27-2021
The ENERGY STAR Score for Senior Living Communities and Residential Care Facilities in Canada applies to facilities that provide permanent rehabilitative, restorative and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living. Residential care facilities include nursing homes and residential developmental handicap, mental health, and substance abuse facilities. The objective of the ENERGY STAR score is to provide a fair assessment of the energy performance of a property, relative to its peers, taking into account the climate, weather, and business activities at the property. A statistical analysis of the peer building population is performed to identify the aspects of building activity that are significant drivers of energy use and then to normalize for those factors. The result of this analysis is an equation that predicts the energy use of a property, based on its experienced business activities. The energy use prediction for a building is compared to its actual energy use to yield a 1 to 100 percentile ranking of performance, relative to the national population.
- Property types. The ENERGY STAR score for senior living communities and residential care facilities in Canada applies to properties that provide permanent rehabilitative, restorative and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living. The ENERGY STAR score applies to entire senior living communities or residential care facilities, whether they are single buildings or campuses of buildings.
- Reference data. The analysis for senior living and residential care in Canada is based on data from the Survey of Commercial and Institutional Energy Use (SCIEU), which was commissioned by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and carried out by Statistics Canada, and represents the energy consumption year 2009.
- Adjustments for weather and business activity. The analysis includes adjustments for:
- Licensed bed capacity
- Number of workers on the main shift
- Weather and climate (using heating and cooling degree days, retrieved based on postal code)
- Percent of the building that is cooled
- Release date. This is the first release of the ENERGY STAR Score for SeniorLiving Communities and Residential Care Facilities in Canada.
This document presents details on the development of the 1 – 100 ENERGY STAR score for senior living communities and residential care facilities. More information on the overall approach to develop ENERGY STAR scores is covered in our Technical Reference for the ENERGY STAR Score, available at http://www.energystar.gov/ENERGYSTARScore. The subsequent sections of this document offer specific details on the development of the ENERGY STAR score for senior living communities and residential care facilities.
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