Developing a probabilistic tool for assessing the risk of overheating in buildings for future climates

David Jenkins, Sandhya Patidar, Phillip Frank Gower Banfill, Gavin Jarvis Gibson

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Abstract

The effect of projected climate change on building performance is currently a growing research area. Building designers and architects are becoming more concerned that buildings designed for the current climate
might not provide adequate working and living environments in the coming decades. Advice is needed to guide how existing buildings might be adapted to cope with this future climate, as well as guidance for new building design to reduce the chances of the building failing in the future. The Low Carbon Futures Project, as part of the Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) programme in the UK, is looking at methods of
integrating the latest climate projections from the UK Climate Impact Programme (UKCIP) into building simulation procedures. The main obstacle to this objective is that these projections are probabilistic in nature; potentially thousands of equally-probably climate-years can be constructed that describe just a single scenario. The project is therefore developing a surrogate procedure that will use regression techniques to assimilate this breadth of climate information into the building simulation process.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the World Renewable Energy Congress 2011
Place of PublicationLinköpings
PublisherLinköping University Electronic Press
Pages1996-2003
Number of pages8
Volume8
ISBN (Print)978-91-7393-070-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventWorld Reneewable Energy Congress - Linkoping, Sweden
Duration: 9 May 201113 May 2011

Conference

ConferenceWorld Reneewable Energy Congress
Country/TerritorySweden
CityLinkoping
Period9/05/1113/05/11

Keywords

  • Climate change
  • Building simulation
  • Overheating

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