Decision-Making Processes in Controlling Exposure to Sunlight Supported by Simulation Tools: A Case Study in Warm Weather
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Título: | Decision-Making Processes in Controlling Exposure to Sunlight Supported by Simulation Tools: A Case Study in Warm Weather |
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Autor/es: | Huskinson, Mariana | Galiano-Garrigós, Antonio | González Avilés, Ángel Benigno | Pérez Millán, Isabel |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Pensamiento Gráfico y Narrativa Arquitectónica (PenGraNA) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas |
Palabras clave: | Energy demand | Energy consumption | Simulations | Shading systems | Energy performance | Solar radiation |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Construcciones Arquitectónicas |
Fecha de publicación: | 7-jul-2021 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Huskinson M, Galiano-Garrigós A, González-Avilés ÁB, Pérez-Millán MI. Decision-Making Processes in Controlling Exposure to Sunlight Supported by Simulation Tools: A Case Study in Warm Weather. Energies. 2021; 14(14):4100. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14144100 |
Resumen: | Improving the energy performance of existing buildings is one of the main strategies defined by the European Union to reduce global energy costs. Amongst the actions to be carried out in buildings to achieve this objective is working with passive measures adapted to each type of climate. To assist designers in the process of finding appropriate solutions for each building and location, different tools have been developed and since the implementation of building information modeling (BIM), it has been possible to perform an analysis of a building’s life cycle from an energy perspective and other types of analysis such as a comfort analysis. In the case of Spain, the first BIM environment tool has been implemented that deals with the global analysis of a building’s behavior and serves as an alternative to previous methods characterized by their lack of both flexibility and information offered to designers. This paper evaluates and compares the official Spanish energy performance evaluation tool (Cypetherm) released in 2018 using a case study involving the installation of sunlight control devices as part of a building refurbishment. It is intended to determine how databases and simplifications affect the designer’s decision-making. Additionally, the yielded energy results are complemented by a comfort analysis to explore the impact of these improvements from a users’ wellbeing viewpoint. At the end of the process the yielded results still confirm that the simulation remains far from reality and that simulation tools can indeed influence the decision-making process. |
Patrocinador/es: | This research was funded by the University of Alicante, with a grant financed to promote the integration of junior researchers in research teams, and it was also supported by a grant from the Networks-I3CE Programme for research in university of the Institute of Education Sciences of the University of Alicante (2020–21). Ref.: 4978. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/116468 |
ISSN: | 1996-1073 |
DOI: | 10.3390/en14144100 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/en14144100 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - AIRASM - Artículos de Revistas |
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