Comfort Filters in a Total Energy Demand Optimization Method for the Passive Design of a Building. (December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ferrara, Maria; Sirombo, Elisa; Fabrizio, Enrico; Filippi, Marco
• Is Part Of: Energy procedia. Volume 83(2015)
• Page Start: 418
• Page End: 427
• Publication Date: 2015-12
• Subjects: integrative design -- optimization -- sensitivity analysis -- thermal comfort -- visual comfort -- building envelope -- school classroom -- TRNSYS -- GenOpt -- total energy.; Power resources -- Congresses; Power resources -- Periodicals; Power resources; Conference proceedings; Periodicals; 333.7905
• DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.12.161
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1876-6102

Abstract

Abstract: The effective design of sustainable buildings results from an accurate optimization process of all the interrelated variables. The authors developed a replicable methodology for the optimization of the building envelope design. Following a previous work, where in the pre-processing and the optimization phases the minimization of the total energy demand is performed by coupling TRNSYS ® with GenOpt ®, this paper is focused on the post-processing phase of the methodology, in which the results are validated and the comfort filters are applied. As an explanatory example, the application of the methodology to a school classroom located in two different climates is presented.