Comfort considerations in Net ZEBs: theory and design

Carlucci, Salvatore; Pagliano, Lorenzo; O’Brien, William; Kapsis, Konstantinos

doi:10.1002/9783433604625.ch03

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“…In this study, we consider adaptive thermal comfort standards helpful, to take advantage of the individual range of adaptive possibilities in an nZEB. This could support the application of a range of passive cooling techniques in buildings as well as the satisfaction of occupants, in coherence with EN15251 and a range of national and international analysis [31][32][33][34][35].…”

Section: Thermal Comfort Limitsmentioning

confidence: 63%

Overview and future challenges of nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB) design in Southern Europe

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Eleftheriou

Xeni

et al. 2017

Energy and Buildings

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a b s t r a c tIn times of great transition of the European construction sector to energy efficient and nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB), a market observation containing qualitative and quantitative indications should help to fill out some of the current gaps concerning the EU 2020 carbon targets. Next to the economic challenges, there are equally important factors that hinder renovating the existing residential building stock and adding newly constructed high performance buildings. Under these circumstances this paper summarises the findings of a cross-comparative study of the societal and technical barriers of nZEB implementation in 7 Southern European countries. The study analyses the present situation and provides an overview on future prospects for nZEB in Southern Europe. The result presents an overview of challenges and provides recommendations based on available empirical evidence to further lower those barriers in the European construction sector. The paper finds that the most Southern European countries are poorly prepared for nZEB implementation and especially to the challenge/opportunity of retrofitting existing buildings. Creating a common approach to further develop nZEB targets, concepts and definitions in synergy with the climatic, societal and technical state of progress in Southern Europe is essential. The paper provides recommendations for actions to shift the identified gaps into opportunities for future development of climate adaptive high performance buildings.

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Section: Thermal Comfort Limitsmentioning

confidence: 63%

Overview and future challenges of nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB) design in Southern Europe

Attia

Eleftheriou

Xeni

et al. 2017

Energy and Buildings

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“…Furthermore, since the building is considered conditioned throughout the year, the Fanger thermal comfort model [37] is adopted to set suitable set-point operative temperatures for the heating and cooling periods [38,39]. For both periods, it is assumed that (i) the indoor operative temperature is calculated as the mean of the air and the mean radiant temperature, (ii) the external work of the occupants is zero, (iii) the occupants are in a sedentary activity 4 , so their metabolic rate is 1.2 met, (iv) the relative humidity is fixed at 50%, and (v) air speed is fixed at 0.1 m/s.…”

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The effect of spatial and temporal randomness of stochastically generated occupancy schedules on the energy performance of a multiresidential building

Carlucci

Lobaccaro

et al. 2016

Energy and Buildings

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Highlights The study has its origins in the Sustainable Energy in Cities summer school held in Shanghai, China, in July 2015  It statistically explores the effect of temporal and spatial randomness of stochastically generated occupancy schedules on a building"s energy performance  It adopts a scalarized single-objective optimization to minimize heating and cooling energy needs  It presents a quality assurance procedure for numerical models of buildings that cannot be calibrated using measured data  Modeling of high-performance buildings requires a (spatially) detailed and (timely) precise description of occupancy and occupant-dependent input variables

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A critical review of the performance evaluation and optimization of grid interactions between zero-energy buildings and power grids

Zhang

Yan

et al. 2022

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Comfort considerations in Net ZEBs: theory and design

Cited by 5 publications

References 46 publications

Overview and future challenges of nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB) design in Southern Europe

Overview and future challenges of nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB) design in Southern Europe

The effect of spatial and temporal randomness of stochastically generated occupancy schedules on the energy performance of a multiresidential building

A critical review of the performance evaluation and optimization of grid interactions between zero-energy buildings and power grids

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