Influence of the building geometry on energy efficiency of timber-glass buildings for different climatic regions

Premrov, Miroslav; Žigart, Maja; Zegarac-Leskovar, Vesna

doi:10.5937/jaes15-15256

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“…The study of Špegelj, Žegarac Leskovar, and Premrov (2016) shows a positive impact of building extension by the upgrade module with the optimal glazing size in south-oriented façade on energy savings. Implementation of the previously especially developed timber-glass upgrade module with enlarged glaz-ing size on the south façade is studied in Premrov, Žigart, and Žegarac Leskovar (2017).…”

Section: Renovation Phase C: Vertical Building Extension With Lightweight Upgrade Modulementioning

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Approach to Refurbishment of Timber Preschool Buildings With a View on Energy and Economic Efficiency

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Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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The refurbishment of educational buildings usually involves a variety of measures aiming at reducing energy demands and improving building functionality to achieve higher living comfort. This paper aims to develop an approach for determination of comprehensive refurbishment strategy upon existing preschool buildings in Slovenia from the aspects of energy and economic efficiency. The main idea of the approach is to separate and individually analyse the investments into those related to energy efficiency improvements and those related to improvements of building functional quality through the step-by-step evaluation of individual measures. The proposed approach was applied on the case study of the existing timber preschool building in the city of Maribor. Generally, the highest energy savings are detected only in the case of combination of multiple renovation measures. Moreover, the economic indicators show low efficiency for almost all measures if they are treated separately. Additionally, the analysis reveals that certain measures are totally inefficient in terms of energy, yet they are highly beneficial from the viewpoint of building functional quality, which indicates the importance of the multi-perspective assessment of renovation process. The conclusions of this study can be implemented to similar building types and construction ages in similar climatic and economic environments.

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Section: Renovation Phase C: Vertical Building Extension With Lightweight Upgrade Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

Approach to Refurbishment of Timber Preschool Buildings With a View on Energy and Economic Efficiency

Šuman

Žigart

Premrov

et al. 2019

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Renovation Process Methodology

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Leskovar

2019

Integrative Approach to Comprehensive Building Renovations

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The impact of thermal transmittance variation on building design in the Mediterranean region

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Contrarily to what happens in northern European countries, buildings in the Mediterranean region are prone to overheating. Consequently, it is important to better understand the role of thermal transmittance of the building envelope elements in the airconditioning consumptions. This paper analyzes the effect of different U-values on the building design in the Mediterranean area. 192 000 residential buildings were randomly generated and the energy consumption assessed for sixteen distinct locations. It was found that, in northern Mediterranean locations, as U-values decrease, the energy consumption also decreases. However, in warmer climates, low thermal transmittances tend to significantly increase the energy consumption. Hence, the lower the latitude, the higher the most adequate U-values, due to the increase of the cooling demands. Additionally, geometry-based indexes were correlated with the buildings energy performance. For high U-values it was found that bigger buildings worsen the energy performance and larger windows tend to improve it. For low U-values, bigger North-faced windows are beneficial. There is an adequate interval of values for which the geometry has a lower impact, which is wider and higher for lower latitudes, thus meaning that not only the building performance improves but architects are also freer to explore alternative designs.

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Influence of the building geometry on energy efficiency of timber-glass buildings for different climatic regions

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Approach to Refurbishment of Timber Preschool Buildings With a View on Energy and Economic Efficiency

Approach to Refurbishment of Timber Preschool Buildings With a View on Energy and Economic Efficiency

Renovation Process Methodology

The impact of thermal transmittance variation on building design in the Mediterranean region

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