Data driven process for the energy assessment of building envelope retrofits
Author/s
Garay-Martinez, Roberto; Arregi, Beñat; Lumbreras, Mikel; Zurro, Belén; Gonzalez, Jose Manuel; [et al.]Date
2020Keywords
Building
Building envelopes
Heat loss
Abstract
In the last decades, a growing industry has been created in relation to building envelope retrofits. Linked to the lack of financial capacity of many building owners, innovative instruments such as energy performance contracts have been promoted by public bodies. This kind of instruments require of detailed energy assessment processes in order to define the expected heat load reduction and the associated economic flows between building owners and Energy Services Companies. When dealing with building envelopes, existing methods for building envelope heat loss characterization require of substantial efforts in terms of equipment and time, which makes them difficult to apply in real practice. In this paper, a novel method is proposed based on whole-building heat load assessment by means of heat meters, and analytical calculations of building envelope transmission heat load coefficients. This method, which requires minimal or no additional equipment, can be used over historical data from ...
Type
conferenceObject