Developing a Data-driven school building stock energy and indoor environmental quality modelling method

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Temporal resolution of photovoltaic electricity production with school energy consumption: a London primary school case study

“…16,17 The building envelope materials have been assumed from Schwartz, Y. et al, 2021. 18 and occupancy schedules were taken from NCM schedules for primary schools, included in Design Builder. 17 The weather file dates from 2002.…”

Pathways to improving the school stock of England towards net zero

“…This paper builds on a significant body of work undertaken to date to explore energy performance in the school stock (Hong et al 2022;Schwartz et al 2021Schwartz et al , 2022Godoy-Shimizu et al 2021). It uses a highly detailed database to examine the potential for reducing emissions, with a focus on primary and secondary schools in England, which account for approximately 85% of schools in England by count (DfE 2017).…”

“…An archetype London primary school was also used to test a new exergy-based retrofit model, capable of considering factors such as economic impact and thermal comfort as part of multi-optimisation analyses (Kerdan et al 2016(Kerdan et al , 2017. More recently, a school stock model was produced using 168 archetypes for the primary school stock of England (Schwartz et al 2021). This was expanded to evaluate overheating risk and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) metrics, and showed that energy retrofits (specifically wall insulation, double-glazing and external shading) could negatively impact IEQ and, conversely, that some IEQ measures will increase heating demand (Grassie et al 2022).…”

“…Section 3.1 describes the processing and integration of this new dataset, as well as the preparation of the database for the retrofit pathways analyses. Papers are available covering the creation of the original database (Hong et al 2022), as well as its application in energy analyses (Schwartz et al 2021(Schwartz et al , 2022Godoy-Shimizu et al 2021).…”

Competency Gaps of Employees in the Construction Sector in Terms of the Requirements of a Low-Carbon Economy. Polish and Czech Case

“…Meanwhile, construction is a sector that can make a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions [42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. This is due to potential of this sector to implement solutions characterized by rapid impact and high-cost efficiency, which mainly include measures to increase the energy efficiency of buildings [49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]. Two groups can be distinguished among them: one related to the design and construction of new buildings and one related to the renovation of existing buildings.…”