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Building energy audit, thermal comfort, and IAQ assessment of a school building: A case study
- Source :
- Building and Environment, Building and Environment, 2018, 145, pp.62-76. ⟨10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.09.015⟩, Building and Environment, Elsevier, 2018, 145, pp.62-76. ⟨10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.09.015⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- International audience; In France, the total heated surface area of educational buildings represents 19.5% of non-residential buildings, with an average total final energy consumption of 142 kWh/m2/y. Of this, the energy usage for heating is 97 kWh/m2/y. To save energy, building energy assessment seeks a trade-off between energy savings and the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of the buildings. A long-term post-occupancy study was conducted on a two-story educational building with a total floor area of 3200 m2 located in Troyes, France. The Building Management System (BMS) programme was used to analyse the energy consumption for a period of three years from January 2015 to December 2017. Although the building complies with High Environmental Quality (HQE®) standards, the post-occupancy energy demand exceeded the predicted consumption levels owing to the auxiliary equipment. Furthermore, the indoor air quality (IAQ) was assessed by monitoring and analysing CO2 levels, which were satisfactory for 95% of occupancy period. Moreover, further investigations were performed in the building's foyer, area where indoor thermal comfort was assessed experimentally and numerically. Subjective evaluation was also conducted according to survey questionnaires completed by 41 students between the ages of 17 and 22. The results indicate that increasing the indoor temperature by 1 °C can improve the indoor thermal sensation but led to increased energy consumption of about 12%.
- Subjects :
- Consumption (economics)
Building management system
Environmental Engineering
Occupancy
020209 energy
4. Education
Geography, Planning and Development
Thermal comfort
02 engineering and technology
Building and Construction
Audit
Energy consumption
Transport engineering
Indoor air quality
13. Climate action
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Environmental science
Environmental quality
Civil and Structural Engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03601323
- Volume :
- 145
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Building and Environment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bbb0b20e0afb86fd58ab327bc4fb2e0c