A study on building performance analysis for energy retrofit of existing industrial facilities

Gourlis, Georgios; Kovačić, Iva

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.03.104

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“…Because people tend to recognize buildings by the materials and patterns of their facade, facade retrofits can help preserve the historical significance of facades and meet modern energy standards. There are many articles dealing with the advantages of adaptive reuse or retrofits of old buildings, and the improvement of the building envelope, such as insulated roof and window replacements, could significantly reduce heating energy demand, for example, by 52% (Gourlis and Kovacic 2016).…”

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A Sustainable Approach to the Adaptive Reuse of Historic Brick Buildings:Analysis of Energy Efficiency Strategies for Historic Facade Retrofits

Kim¹,

Felkner²

2018

Healthy, Intelligent and Resilient Buildings and Urban Environments

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There are many historic brick buildings in downtown areas of the U.S. that are awaiting appropriate strategies for their adaptive reuse and preservation. The adaptive reuse method enables the adaptation of existing, obsolete historic buildings into new, mixed-use developments that will play an essential role in enhancing urban environments. However, many of these buildings have poor energy performance. This paper explores sustainable methods to balance between historic preservation and reduction of peak energy loads, through analyzing design strategies and conducting energy simulations for a building in downtown, Austin, TX. Energy retrofits related to windows, high performance of the facades with added insulation, and passive (spatial) interventions are covered in depth. Four retrofit scenarios were applied and simulated using the energy analysis tool in Revit, a popular BIM program. Analyzing the energy consumption data, we compare an existing building's facade condition to the retrofit scenarios' energy performances and record the energy performance data. This research proposes energy efficient preservation options for historic buildings and ultimately emphasizes potential values such as balancing the integrity of the original design with energy goals. We explore novel solutions for making historic buildings more sustainable through combining the adaptive reuse method with energy retrofit strategies that play up the historic buildings' unique passive potentials. The various solutions are found to be highly dependent on the climate.

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A Sustainable Approach to the Adaptive Reuse of Historic Brick Buildings:Analysis of Energy Efficiency Strategies for Historic Facade Retrofits

Kim¹,

Felkner²

2018

Healthy, Intelligent and Resilient Buildings and Urban Environments

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“…In [39] an online building performance tool for fault detection and diagnostics in buildings was developed. Dynamic thermal simulation was adopted for assessing building envelope refurbishment in [40]. Optimisation approaches were also proposed in the literature for the determining the trade-off between energy consumption and occupant comfort.…”

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Minimising the Deviation between Predicted and Actual Building Performance via Use of Neural Networks and BIM

Hammad

2019

Buildings

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Building energy performance tools are widely used to simulate the expected energy consumption of a given building during the operation phase of its life cycle. Deviations between predicted and actual energy consumptions have however been reported as a major limiting factor to the tools adopted in the literature. A significant reason highlighted as greatly influencing the difference in energy performance is related to the occupant behaviour of the building. To enhance the effectiveness of building energy performance tools, this study proposes a method which integrates Building Information Modelling (BIM) with artificial neural network model for limiting the deviation between predicted and actual energy consumption rates. Through training a deep neural network for predicting occupant behaviour that reflects the actual performance of the building under examination, accurate BIM representations are produced which are validated via energy simulations. The proposed method is applied to a realistic case study, which highlights significant improvements when contrasted with a static simulation that does not account for changes in occupant behaviour.

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“…An example of the application of this technology in the case of existing buildings can be found in the work of Gourlis et al [41], who built an as-built building information model of the envelope of a historic industrial building and exported it to a BPS environment. Furthermore, they provided a retrospective on similar studies on industrial buildings.…”

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Multidisciplinary Energy Assessment of Tertiary Buildings: Automated Geomatic Inspection, Building Information Modeling Reconstruction and Building Performance Simulation

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Abstract:There is an urgent need for energy efficiency in buildings within the European framework, considering its environmental implications, and Europe's energy dependence. Furthermore, the need for enhancing and increasing productivity in the building industry turns new technologies and building energy performance simulation environments into extremely interesting solutions towards rigorous analysis and decision making in renovation within acceptable risk levels. The present work describes a multidisciplinary approach for the estimation of the energy performance of an educational building. The research involved data acquisition with advanced geomatic tools, the development of an optimized building information model, and energy assessment in Building Performance Simulation (BPS) software. Interoperability issues were observed in the different steps of the process. The inspection and diagnostic phases were conducted in a timely, accurate manner thanks to automated data acquisition and subsequent analysis using Building Information Modeling based tools (BIM-based tools). Energy simulation was performed using Design Builder, and the results obtained were compared with those yielded by the official software tool established by Spanish regulations for energy certification. The discrepancies between the results of both programs have proven that the official software program is conservative in this sense. This may cause the depreciation of the assessed buildings.

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A study on building performance analysis for energy retrofit of existing industrial facilities

Cited by 58 publications

References 30 publications

A Sustainable Approach to the Adaptive Reuse of Historic Brick Buildings:Analysis of Energy Efficiency Strategies for Historic Facade Retrofits

A Sustainable Approach to the Adaptive Reuse of Historic Brick Buildings:Analysis of Energy Efficiency Strategies for Historic Facade Retrofits

Minimising the Deviation between Predicted and Actual Building Performance via Use of Neural Networks and BIM

Multidisciplinary Energy Assessment of Tertiary Buildings: Automated Geomatic Inspection, Building Information Modeling Reconstruction and Building Performance Simulation

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