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Evaluation of refurbishment strategies for post-war office buildings

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posted on 2016-05-11, 13:18 authored by Ozlem Duran, Simon Taylor, Kevin LomasKevin Lomas
Multiple combinations of energy saving refurbishment measures were applied to representative models of post-war office buildings using EnergyPlus. Based on energy consumption, thermal comfort and costs, a range of heating and cooling refurbishment features were evaluated under a parameter study. The evaluation shows that although refurbished post-war offices with high insulation consume negligible amounts of heating energy, thermal comfort could only be provided by additional active cooling which results in higher costs and lower greenhouse gas reductions.

Funding

This research was made possible by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) support for the London-Loughborough Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Consumption (Grant EP/H009612/1).

History

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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14th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (BS2015) http://www.ibpsa.org/?page_id=619

Pages

138 - 145 (8)

Citation

DURAN, O., TAYLOR, S. and LOMAS, K.J., 2015. Evaluation of refurbishment strategies for post-war office buildings. IN: Mathur, J. and Garg, V. (eds). Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (BS2015), 7th-9th December 2015, Hyderabad, India, pp. 138 - 145.

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© International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2015-07-15

Publication date

2015

Notes

This is a conference paper.

ISBN

9789352301188

Language

  • en

Location

Hyderabad, India

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