Estimation of climate change impact on energy consumption in a residential building in Kaunas, Lithuania, using HEED Software

Sabūnas, Audrius; Kanapickas, Arvydas

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.020

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“…The current concept of resilience is indicated by a globally notable increment in interest: countries are trying to face the problem of climate change, a gradual process that can be measured and its impact relatively accurately foreseen, as shown the 2018 IPCC's report [1,11,12]. However, disasters, such as floods, also deserve more attention, because they may cause a series of losses (e.g., financial deficits, housing collapses, and casualties) [13].…”

Section: The Resilience Of the Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Major European Stressors and Potential of Available Tools for Assessment of Urban and Buildings Resilience

2020

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Recent data show that there are intensifications of phenomena related to climate change, such as the increasing of heavy rains, more frequent and intense droughts connected with fires, and alterations of the local climatic conditions, including heat islands with consequent impacts on cities, districts, and buildings. Not only are natural hazards stressing Europe but also human-induced events like low-magnitude earthquakes as a direct cause of fracking or mining. This study aimed to investigate the significant stressors and summarize what impact is the most dangerous in each European country. There is a need to secure the operating conditions of urban infrastructures and to preserve a high-quality indoor environment of buildings. The main scope of this paper is to compare selected tools that evaluate the urban and building resilience and to assess their suitability, based on an analysis of natural and human-induced hazards in the European countries. The results represent a contribution to urban and architectural planning practice, and to the consistent implementation of measures to improve the resilience of the built environment by providing guidance as to which assessment tool is most suitable for each country.

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Major European Stressors and Potential of Available Tools for Assessment of Urban and Buildings Resilience

2020

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“…The "morphing" methodology, developed and described in [16], was adopted in this research, aiming to analyze the implications of climate change on the building's thermal/ energy performance. The morphing method has been used to generate future EPW (EnergyPlus Weatherfiles) for any location in the world employing Climate Change World Weather File Generator for World-Wide Weather Data (CCWorldWeatherGen) tool [17][18][19][20][21][22]. This methodology considers the climatic anomaly by modifying a set of historical climatic variables (1961-1990) of 8760 h per year, disregarding the influence of urbanization while incorporating the effects of global warming on the climate archives, making obtaining projections of future climate data possible.…”

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Thermal Performance of Partially Bermed Earth-Sheltered House: Measure for Adapting to Climate Change in a Tropical Climate Region

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Durante

Guarda

et al. 2020

The First World Energies Forum—Current and Future Energy Issues

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This study addresses passive adaptation strategies to reduce the effects of global warming on housing, focusing on low-income houses, for which passive adaptation strategies should be prioritized, aiming for environmental sustainability. The passive strategy chosen is thermal mass for cooling, through the adoption of earth-sheltered walls in contact with the ground. Thus, the goal of this study is to evaluate the thermal load and thermal impact of implementing a thermal mass strategy for cooling, using bermed earth-sheltered walls in bedrooms, for a building located in a tropical climate region. For that, a base scenario (1961–1990) is considered alongside two future scenarios: 2020 (2011 to 2040) and 2050 (2041 to 2070), both considering the effects of climate change, according to the Fourth Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The methodologies adopted are (i) the computational simulation of the annual thermal load demand and (ii) the quantification of the Cooling Degree-Hours (CDH) with the subsequent comparative analysis. The results show that in both the 2020 and 2050 scenarios there will be an increase in the thermal loads for cooling and the CDH, regardless of using a bermed earth-sheltered wall. Nonetheless, it is shown that this passive strategy works as a global warming adaptation measure, promoting building sustainability in tropical climate regions.

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“…There is a broad research focusing on the energy consumption of the residential building stock (Sabunas and Kanapickas 2017) and on the investigation of renovation interventions of single family houses taking into account the target for nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) (Serghides et al 2015), or in apartment buildings, including scenarios for green roofs (Karteris et al 2016) or sunspaces (Fotopoulou et al 2018).…”

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Energy and Aesthetic Upgrading Interventions: Assessing Urban Block Renovation Scenarios

Tsirigoti

Zenginis

Bikas

2021

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The target towards carbon neutral cities emerges as a new way to mitigate the environmental pollution and the indisputable climate change, but it can also be the chance for the overall improvement of the quality of life by promoting the upgrading of the often low aesthetic quality of the urban environments. The objective of the research is to investigate renovation strategies at the city scale that will not only reduce the energy demand, but they will also promote the improvement of the city’s aesthetics. Two different typologies of urban block forms of the Greek city are examined, and four scenarios of renovation interventions are analysed according to energy and aesthetic criteria. The heating and cooling load demand is calculated through simulations for the four renovation scenarios which include: The improvement of the thermal insulation of the building’s shells. The use of phase change materials. The construction of green roofs. The integration of passive solar and shading systems. The findings of the research prove that the energy interventions at the urban block scale can define the degree of efficiency in the energy performance level without compromising aesthetics, as the added value resulting from higher aesthetics is a basic criterion for the overall improvement of the quality of life.

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Estimation of climate change impact on energy consumption in a residential building in Kaunas, Lithuania, using HEED Software

Cited by 42 publications

References 16 publications

Major European Stressors and Potential of Available Tools for Assessment of Urban and Buildings Resilience

Major European Stressors and Potential of Available Tools for Assessment of Urban and Buildings Resilience

Thermal Performance of Partially Bermed Earth-Sheltered House: Measure for Adapting to Climate Change in a Tropical Climate Region

Energy and Aesthetic Upgrading Interventions: Assessing Urban Block Renovation Scenarios

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