This Future weather dataset is used for assessing the risk of overheating and thermal discomfort or heat stress in the free running buildings. The weather files are in the format of .epw which can be used in the building simulation packages such as EnergyPlus, DesignBuilder, IES, etc.

Environmental problems caused by fossil fuel consumption, on the one hand, and the upcoming prospect of ending these fuels on the other, attracted much attention towards sustainable architecture. Traditional buildings can be seen as a sample of sustainability; as they have used strategies to cope with the environment, which have been developed over the years, providing users’ comfort cond...

Monitoring of completed buildings often identifies significant gaps between the predicted and actual energy use of buildings. This is referred to as the ‘energy performance gap’. To date, most research on the energy performance gap has focussed on nondomestic buildings; this paper presents a case study from the UK domestic sector. Monitoring equipment was installed in six identical flats locate...

Maximising the natural ventilation of a building can be beneficial in terms of comfort and reduced reliance on air conditioning. In noisy urban areas this can conflict with the need to reduce the ingress of external noise. In this study the effect of building exposure to noise on natural ventilation potential is investigated. The occurrence of window openings on a building façade was adjusted a...

Several studies have analyzed the integration of energy-saving strategies in buildings to mitigate their environmental impact. These focused mainly on a disaggregated analysis such and effects building's energy consumption thermal behavior, using engine simulation software (EnergyPlus, TRNSYS, DOE2) or graphical interface (DesignBuilder, eQuest, ESP-r). However, are complex systems whose behavi...

Abstract Detailed buildings energy audits require dynamic simulation models based on hourly input data. This paper presents the calibration and validation of an office building model for heating cooling services. Simulation are carried out by DesignBuilder software. Measured supplied generation system used model. Employee behaviour with reference to occupancy profiles indoor temperature setting...

This paper presents an energy performance assessment on educational building in Barranquilla, Colombia. The electricity consumption was assessed using the software DesignBuilder for two different Air Conditioning (AC) systems. current intensity is 215.3 kWh/m2-year and centralized AC systems with individual fan coils a water chiller share 66% of total lighting at 16%. simulation technology chan...