Energy and climate simulation in the Upper Lawn Pavilion, an experimental laboratory in the architecture of the Smithsons

Escandón, Rocío; Sendra, Juan J.; Suárez, Rafael

doi:10.1007/s12273-014-0197-0

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“…Upper Lawn Pavilion (Great Britain) [7] Dynamic energy simulation Environmental design-based results reveal deficient behaviour in need of updating in order to comply with current standards.…”

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Adaptive approach-based assessment of a heritage residential complex in southern Spain for improving comfort and energy efficiency through passive strategies: A study based on a monitored flat

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“…As a result, this housing is protected by laws designed to preserve its appearance. Housing architecture of the Modern Movement constituted a departure from earlier trends and increased awareness of issues relating to energy [7].…”

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Adaptive approach-based assessment of a heritage residential complex in southern Spain for improving comfort and energy efficiency through passive strategies: A study based on a monitored flat

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“…In this line, complex simulation tools, such as DesignBuilder, can be useful to evaluate building performance. Studies have reported its usefulness in confirming that, in some examples of good architecture, the buildings' environmental performance is far from the current standards of adaptive comfort [76].…”

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Evaluation of Energy Performance and Comfort: Case-Study of University Buildings with Design Adapted to Local Climate

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One of the main strategies to reduce countries’ energy bills is to invest in efficient buildings. To achieve this objective, the European Union Member States have developed different methodologies to evaluate building energy performance, which are often supported by simulation tools. These tools are based on calculation engines that use databases and simplifications to attempt to bring their results close to real building performance and are mostly designed to be used at the end of the process, neglecting their role in project decision-making processes. To compensate for this situation and to obtain the most accurate results, the methodologies recommend previous work during the building design phase to adopt passive design solutions that learn from experience and aim to adapt the building design to the local climate. However, these design solutions are difficult to adopt while working with medium to large public buildings and are often not properly understood by the simulation tools. In addition, new BIM methodologies are being implemented, starting to enable proper interaction between the designer and the results, and opening up the option of introducing other types of calculations, such as building comfort, in the calculation process. Among the group of countries with limited simulation tools that are starting to be substituted is Spain, which recently launched its first BIM-based energy simulation tool. This tool aims to compensate for the limitations of the former simulation tools and opens up the option of performing comfort calculations by sharing information with other programs. The objective of this research is to evaluate, from different perspectives, the performance of this new simulation tool on three buildings at the University of Alicante. These were chosen as university campuses are responsible for large groups of buildings and belong to the group of stakeholders interested in obtaining efficient and comfortable buildings. These case studies are defined by their extreme adaptation to design recommendations for mild-warm weather. At the end of the process, the difference is measured between simulation and real building performance. The results obtained show that simulation still differs greatly from real building performance from the energy performance point of view, while the comfort evaluation shows results that are closer to the reality of the buildings.

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“…Nonetheless, these strategies aimed at obtaining better buildings have not received the official support of the Governments as there are few examples of regulations, i.e., ASHRAE 55 [24] and EN 16798 [25], that specifically address the evaluation of comfort. The lack of transversal methods to evaluate energy efficiency and comfort has opened a debate, and there are examples of research aimed at finding common strategies to improve both fields [1,26,27]. In the case of Spain, comfort conditions are contained within the regulations that define the minimum requirements for the conditioning of interior spaces, although there is no specific evaluation method, and only minimum and maximum values for temperature, relative humidity, and ventilation are set.…”

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Decision-Making Processes in Controlling Exposure to Sunlight Supported by Simulation Tools: A Case Study in Warm Weather

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Improving the energy performance of existing buildings is one of the main strategies defined by the European Union to reduce global energy costs. Amongst the actions to be carried out in buildings to achieve this objective is working with passive measures adapted to each type of climate. To assist designers in the process of finding appropriate solutions for each building and location, different tools have been developed and since the implementation of building information modeling (BIM), it has been possible to perform an analysis of a building’s life cycle from an energy perspective and other types of analysis such as a comfort analysis. In the case of Spain, the first BIM environment tool has been implemented that deals with the global analysis of a building’s behavior and serves as an alternative to previous methods characterized by their lack of both flexibility and information offered to designers. This paper evaluates and compares the official Spanish energy performance evaluation tool (Cypetherm) released in 2018 using a case study involving the installation of sunlight control devices as part of a building refurbishment. It is intended to determine how databases and simplifications affect the designer’s decision-making. Additionally, the yielded energy results are complemented by a comfort analysis to explore the impact of these improvements from a users’ wellbeing viewpoint. At the end of the process the yielded results still confirm that the simulation remains far from reality and that simulation tools can indeed influence the decision-making process.

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Energy and climate simulation in the Upper Lawn Pavilion, an experimental laboratory in the architecture of the Smithsons

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Adaptive approach-based assessment of a heritage residential complex in southern Spain for improving comfort and energy efficiency through passive strategies: A study based on a monitored flat

Adaptive approach-based assessment of a heritage residential complex in southern Spain for improving comfort and energy efficiency through passive strategies: A study based on a monitored flat

Evaluation of Energy Performance and Comfort: Case-Study of University Buildings with Design Adapted to Local Climate

Decision-Making Processes in Controlling Exposure to Sunlight Supported by Simulation Tools: A Case Study in Warm Weather

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