Cooling season performance of an earth-sheltered office/dormitory building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Christian, Jaekedah

doi:10.2172/6795979

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“…These studies demonstrated that in some specific cases, underground buildings may respectively 18 save up to 23-35% [2], 47-80% [10], 33%, 50%, 70% [5] and 30% [11] in energy consumption when compared 19 to aboveground buildings.…”

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“…measurements of existing buildings [5,11]. These studies addressed particular building types, such as a sunken 14 residential courtyard [2], a single story domestic building [10], a university building [5], an office building [5], a 15 two-story elementary school [5] and an office-dormitory building [11]; in most of them particular climates were 16 considered, such as BWh (Kuwait) [2], Dfb (Poland, Minnesota (U.S)) [10,5], Cfa (Washington and Tennessee…”

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Heating and cooling energy demand in underground buildings: Potential for saving in various climates and functions

Dronkelaar

Cóstola

Mangkuto

et al. 2014

Energy and Buildings

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Heating and cooling energy demand in underground buildings: Potential for saving in various climates and functions

Dronkelaar

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Mangkuto

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Energy and Buildings

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“…Dronkelaar stated that the energy performance is more significantly dependent on the U-value of the constructions and the ventilation rates in certain colder climates [11]. effect gained from the soil, whereas a thicker insulation leads to a smaller heating energy demand [6,23].…”

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Optimizing the thermal performance of building envelopes for energy saving in underground office buildings in various climates of China

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Zhang

Li³

et al. 2018

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

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This article investigates the influence of the thermal performance of building envelopes on annual energy consumption in a ground-buried office building by means of the dynamic building energy simulation, aiming at offering reasonable guidelines for the energy efficient design of envelopes for underground office buildings in China. In this study, the accuracy of dealing with the thermal process for underground buildings by using the Designer's Energy Simulation Tool (DeST) is validated by measured data. The analyzed results show that the annual energy consumptions for this type of buildings vary significantly, and it is based on the value of the overall heat transfer coefficient (U-value) of the envelopes. Thus, it is necessary to optimize the U-value for underground buildings located in various climatic zones in China. With respect to the roof, an improvement in its thermal performance is significantly beneficial to the underground office building in terms of annual energy demand. With respect to the external walls, the optimized U-values completely change with the distribution of the climate zones. The recommended optimal values for various climate zones of China are also specified as design references for public office building in underground in terms of the building energy efficiency.

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Life cycle cost analysis of near zero energy buildings benefited from earth-sheltering

Yadollahi

Saryazdi

Shafaat

et al. 2022

International Journal of Construction Management

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Cooling season performance of an earth-sheltered office/dormitory building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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Heating and cooling energy demand in underground buildings: Potential for saving in various climates and functions

Heating and cooling energy demand in underground buildings: Potential for saving in various climates and functions

Optimizing the thermal performance of building envelopes for energy saving in underground office buildings in various climates of China

Life cycle cost analysis of near zero energy buildings benefited from earth-sheltering

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