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<p>Single family houses consume substantially more thermal energy per floor area compared to multi-apartment buildings to satisfy space heating or cooling demand. Over the past decades there has been an undisputed evidence of a temperature rise across the world that has led to a growing concern of more extreme weather patterns and regular seasonal heat waves globally. As such, building occupants are at a continuously growing risk to overheating exposure inside the premises. Within the framework of this study a single-family house was examined with respect to its thermal performance in warm and cold seasons. A simulation model was developed in <italic>IDA-ICE</italic> software to evaluate annual thermal energy demand for a reference scenario, 3 shading scenarios and for an optimized scenario. At an optimized scenario that incorporates mechanical ventilation with a heat recovery unit and enhanced thermal performance of the external building elements, the annual thermal energy demand in the proposed single-family house was reduced by 39.5 % compared to the reference scenario, which is a significant step towards meeting nearly zero energy building criteria.</p>
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Single family houses consume substantially more thermal energy per floor area compared to multi-apartment buildings to satisfy space heating or cooling demand. Over the past decades there has been an undisputed evidence of a temperature rise across the world that has led to a growing concern of more extreme weather patterns and regular seasonal heat waves globally. As such, building occupants are at a continuously growing risk to overheating exposure inside the premises. Within the framework of this study a single-family house was examined with respect to its thermal performance in warm and cold seasons. A simulation model was developed in IDA-ICE software to evaluate annual thermal energy demand for a reference scenario, 3 shading scenarios and for an optimized scenario. At an optimized scenario that incorporates mechanical ventilation with a heat recovery unit and enhanced thermal performance of the external building elements, the annual thermal energy demand in the proposed single-family house was reduced by 39.5 % compared to the reference scenario, which is a significant step towards meeting nearly zero energy building criteria.

Evaluation of Heating and Cooling Loads for a Well-Insulated Single-Family House under Variable Climate Pattern

Department of Heat Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Department of Building Materials and Products, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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Single family houses consume substantially more thermal energy per floor area compared to multi-apartment buildings to satisfy space heating or cooling demand....

Evaluation of Heating and Cooling Loads for a Well-Insulated Single-Family House under Variable Climate Pattern

Published Online: Oct 26, 2021

Page range: 750 - 763

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2021-0056

Keywords
Building energy consumption, building energy simulation, heating and cooling loads, single-family house

© 2021 Aleksejs Prozuments et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Evaluation of Heating and Cooling Loads for a Well-Insulated Single-Family House under Variable Climate Pattern

Published Online: Oct 26, 2021

Page range: 750 - 763

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2021-0056

KeywordsBuilding energy consumption, building energy simulation, heating and cooling loads, single-family house

© 2021 Aleksejs Prozuments et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Building energy consumption, building energy simulation, heating and cooling loads, single-family house