The Simulation and Mapping of Building Performance Indicators based on European Weather Stations

Due to the climate change debate, a lot of research and maps of external climate parameters are available. However, maps of indoor climate performance parameters are still lacking. This paper presents a methodology for obtaining maps of performances of similar buildings that are virtually spread over whole Europe. The produced maps are useful for analyzing regional climate influence on building performance indicators such as energy use and indoor climate. This is shown using the Bestest building as a reference benchmark. An important application of the mapping tool is the visualization of potential building measures over the EU. Also the performances of single building components can be simulated and mapped. It is concluded that the presented method is efficient as it takes less than 15 min to simulate and produce the maps on a 2.6 GHz/4 GB computer. Moreover, the approach is applicable for any type of building.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  arXiv.org

• Publication date

  2012-05-16

• Fields of study

  Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.FOAR.2013.02.003arXiv 1205.3569
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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