Overheating in buildings: lessons from research

Lomas, Kevin J.; Porritt, Stephen

doi:10.1080/09613218.2017.1256136

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“…Many others have noted the problems associated with blind corridors (e.g. see [52] and [53]. The tendency to locate nurses' stations in the middle of wards, often off corridors, means they are particularly prone to overheating, and the nurses themselves can do nothing about it.…”

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Hospital wards and modular construction: Summertime overheating and energy efficiency

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Lomas

Giridharan

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Building and Environment

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Hospital wards and modular construction: Summertime overheating and energy efficiency

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Giridharan

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“…For example, low-e windows are thermally more efficient, but typically reduce the transmission of daylight and of sound, and the fading of fabrics, meaning that rooms also appear darker. Since buildings are complex systems, modifying one aspect, such as adding insulation, can reduce the energy used for heating in winter, but create new demands, perhaps leading to air-conditioning to combat overheating in summer (Lomas & Porritt, 2017).…”

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What is wrong with energy efficiency?

Shove

2017

Building Research & Information

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At first sight the purpose of energy efficiency is plain: it is to reduce the amount of energy used and the carbon emissions associated with the design and operation of things like buildings, domestic appliances, and heating and cooling technologies, or with the organization of bureaucratic, business or industrial processes. National and international responses to climate change are dominated by policies that promote energy efficiency and by people who take this to be a selfevidently important thing to do. Established criticisms, including those which focus on problems of rebound, draw attention to the unintended consequences of such strategies, but rarely challenge the conceptual foundations of 'efficiency' as a topic in its own right. This paper uses Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern (1993) notion of purification and Ian Hodder's Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things (2012) ideas about entanglement to develop a more fundamental critique and to argue that, far from being a solution, efficiency, as currently constituted, undermines that which it is expected to achieve. It is concluded that if carbon emissions are to be reduced on any significant scale, then it is essential to consider the meanings and levels of service and the types of consumption and demand that efficiency policies support and perpetuate.

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“…Concerns over the accurate prediction and mitigation of indoor overheating in domestic buildings have recently intensified 1 , mainly due to the unprecedented rate of global temperature increase associated with anthropogenic climate change 2 . As the external environment is an important driver of indoor conditions, an increase in the average and maximum ambient temperatures would translate to higher overheating risk in UK homes 3 , with potentially adverse effects on the occupants' health and wellbeing 4 , especially during periods of extreme heat episodes.…”

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Can the choice of building performance simulation tool significantly alter the level of predicted indoor overheating risk in London flats?

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Mavrogianni²,

Symonds³

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Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

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The accurate prediction of building indoor overheating risk is critical in order to mitigate its possible consequences on occupant health and wellbeing. The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers issued Technical Memorandum 59 (TM59) with the aim of achieving consistency in the modelling processes followed for the prediction of overheating risk in new dwellings. However, as each tool's prediction may depend on its inherent assumptions, an inter-model comparison procedure was used to assess whether the choice of building performance simulation tool influences the overheating assessment. The predictions of two popular tools, IES VE and EnergyPlus, were compared for nine variations of a naturally ventilated, purpose built, London flat archetype, modelled under the default algorithm options. EnergyPlus predicted a high overheating risk according to TM59 criteria in seven out of the nine model variants, contrary to the low risk of all the IES VE variants. Analysis of heat transfer processes revealed that wind-driven ventilation and surface convection algorithms were the main sources of the observed discrepancies. The choice of simulation tool could thus influence the overheating risk assessment in flats while the observed discrepancies in the simulation of air and heat transfer could have implications on other modelling applications.Practical applications Technical Memorandum 59 issued by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers may be widely adopted within the industry to assist the prediction of overheating risk in new dwellings. This work suggests that the choice of building performance simulation tool can greatly influence the predicted overheating risk. Furthermore, the differences identified in the modelling of heat transfer processes could also impact other modelling applications. Following these results, the need for detailed empirical validation studies of naturally ventilated homes has been highlighted.

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Overheating in buildings: lessons from research

Cited by 168 publications

References 21 publications

Hospital wards and modular construction: Summertime overheating and energy efficiency

Hospital wards and modular construction: Summertime overheating and energy efficiency

What is wrong with energy efficiency?

Can the choice of building performance simulation tool significantly alter the level of predicted indoor overheating risk in London flats?

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