Passive Houses for different climate zones

Schnieders, Jürgen; Feist, Wolfgang; Rongen, Ludwig

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.07.032

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“…The previous research works [17,18] were done in the development of passive houses in warm climates, hot and humid or dry and tropical climates. Several design parameters were examined by dynamic simulation, and a reference passive house with the optimal value of each parameter was established.…”

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“…Although the basic original concept of passive design is mainly for reducing the heating demand in winter, as it was developed firstly in Germany (Central Europe), it is now to be applied to warm, hot and dry or humid and also tropical climates. In the projects Passive House in Different Climate and Passive House in Tropical Climate [17,18], by Passipedia and partners, a reference passive house was built, and dynamic simulations using several design parameters were conducted. The design parameters studied were compactness, insulation for the walls, roof and basement ceiling, infiltration, heat recovery for ventilation, infiltration, glass and frame type, window area, orientation, solar absorption coefficient of external surface and heat capacity.…”

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Bioclimatic Analysis in Pre‐Design Stage of Passive House in Indonesia

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Abstract:The objective of this study is to investigate the climate characteristics of Indonesian regions using an Olgyay Bioclimatic chart, a Givoni-Milne Bioclimatic chart and a Mahoney Table as the pre-design stage in the development of a passive house design standard for residential house construction in Indonesia. Jakarta was the city chosen for deep analysis, because it represents most of the Indonesian regions in terms of temperature and relative humidity. The Olgyay Bioclimatic chart showed that the climate needs a high wind velocity to counteract the vapor pressure and shading in order to reduce solar gain entering the building. The Givoni-Milne Bioclimatic chart proposed natural ventilation and shading devices, while the Mahoney Table recommends open spaces for protection against hot wind, rooms single-banked and permanent provision for air movement. The composite size of the opening at body height is better to allow the wind to counter the high levels of humidity and temperature. Heavy walls and roofs are suggested, as well as the provision of protection devices for the high amount of rainfall. Energy simulation was also done to investigate the effectiveness of the passive strategy proposed by the bioclimatic analysis. These results give a contribution as the indispensable basis for the development of a passive house standard in Indonesia.

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Bioclimatic Analysis in Pre‐Design Stage of Passive House in Indonesia

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“…The adaptability and suitability of efficiency standards to different climatic zone is a theme known in literature due to the close interactions of climatic context and energy performances [23][24][25][26], for this reasons it is important to assess also the climate resilience of AH vision.…”

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Comfort analysis applied to the international standard “Active House”: The case of RhOME, the winning prototype of Solar Decathlon 2014

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Salvalai

Tonelli

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Journal of Building Engineering

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The relationship between indoor comfort and climatic context is essential to assure a superior liveable environment for occupants. The international approach called Active House (AH) proposes a ranking system to evaluate the provided indoor comfort, which is the same through the whole Europe, without acknowledging the variety of social-cultural contexts of each country. This paper aims to understand whether the AH methodology can be proposed both for continental and Mediterranean climates, evaluating the indoor comfort performances of a single-family home in four different climatic conditions, representative of different climate severities. The RhOME for denCity building, the winning prototype of the international competition Solar Decathlon 2014, has been used as experimental case study. From the results a variation of the AH comfort thresholds is proposed to fulfil the cultural and social environment of warm regions, considering the acclimatization process which arise the boundary of comfort acceptability. The proposed new comfort threshold still provide high thermal comfort expectation with an energy saving estimation of about 1.7% for each half degree Celsius reduction.

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“…In warm climates, low energy needs thresholds for heating, e.g. 15 or 30 kWh/(m 2 year), can be met more easily for heating than in cold ones [13,14]. This is due to milder weather and shorter extreme climatic cold waves.…”

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

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Eleftheriou

Xeni

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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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Passive Houses for different climate zones

Cited by 195 publications

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Bioclimatic Analysis in Pre‐Design Stage of Passive House in Indonesia

Bioclimatic Analysis in Pre‐Design Stage of Passive House in Indonesia

Comfort analysis applied to the international standard “Active House”: The case of RhOME, the winning prototype of Solar Decathlon 2014

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

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