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Building Energy Modelling and Performance Assessment

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 5047

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Simon Rouchier

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LOCIE, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, 73000 Chambéry, France
Interests: building energy; data analysis; natural cooling

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The prediction and assessment of building energy performance is becoming an increasingly critical topic in a context of climate change, population growth, and increasing comfort standards. Whether it is for designing new constructions or selecting retrofitting measures to existing ones, energy modeling and monitoring must support the development of sustainable solutions: lower energy needs and reliable operation.

While the building energy performance literature is vast, this Special Issue aims at showcasing contributions that emphasize the adaptation of buildings and cities to the issues of climate change. This question can be summarized by two challenges: lowering the carbon footprint of the building sector and ensuring its resilience.

Topics may include low-energy and passive solutions for heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning; energy storage in relation with intermittent renewable energy production; data analysis for performance assessment and prediction of consumption; further advances on building energy modeling; etc. An additional emphasis concerns methods developed to guarantee the reliability of energy conservation measures.

Dr. Simon Rouchier
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • building energy modelling
  • energy performance assessment
  • HVAC systems
  • energy conservation measures
  • reliability
  • sustainability

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Waterfront Hotels’ Chillers: Energy Benchmarking and ESG Reporting
by Chammy Lau, Irini Lai Fun Tang and Wilco Chan
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6242; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13116242 - 01 Jun 2021
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Chillers consumes the largest amount power in subtropical hotels. To monitor chillers’ power usage is of critical importance in energy control. This study attempted to establish the benchmark of electricity usage of hotel chillers and elucidate how the benchmarking results can be integrated [...] Read more.
Chillers consumes the largest amount power in subtropical hotels. To monitor chillers’ power usage is of critical importance in energy control. This study attempted to establish the benchmark of electricity usage of hotel chillers and elucidate how the benchmarking results can be integrated with the various types reports for monitoring purposes. A survey of 20 waterfront hotels in the city of Greater Bay Area was conducted and 13 complete samples were used in the analysis. Multiple regression with selected 12 parameters—outdoor temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, cooling degree days, room occupancy, number of employees, service types, and unequally sized chillers were employed. The investigation found that the mean electricity usage of a chiller is 118 kWh/m2 on an annual basis for a deluxe waterfront hotel. The analysis excluded air-conditioned floor area, an exploratory variable, as the valid factor in the chiller’s electricity usage. While the overall R2 of the modeling equation for the whole year was limited to 0.76, the explanatory power of equations for humid spring and deep summer reached 80%. Hoteliers may harness this exercise as a reference to monitor and report the performance of key energy production facility per the Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) guide. Full article
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How to Set the Proper CO2 Reduction Targets for the Provincial Building Sector of China?
by Qingwei Shi, Hong Ren, Weiguang Cai and Jingxin Gao
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10432; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su122410432 - 14 Dec 2020
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The improvement of the energy and carbon emission efficiency of activities in the building sector is the key to China’s realization of the Paris Agreement. We can explore effective emission abatement approaches for the building sector by evaluating the carbon emissions and energy [...] Read more.
The improvement of the energy and carbon emission efficiency of activities in the building sector is the key to China’s realization of the Paris Agreement. We can explore effective emission abatement approaches for the building sector by evaluating the carbon emissions and energy efficiency of construction activities, measuring the emission abatement potential of construction activities across the country and regions, and measuring the marginal abatement cost (MAC) of China and various regions. This study calculates the energy and carbon emissions performance of the building sector of 30 provinces and regions in China from 2005 to 2015, measures the dynamic changes in the energy-saving potential and carbon emission performance of the building sector, conducts relevant verification, and estimates the MAC of the building sector by using the slacks-based measure-directional distance function. The level of energy consumption per unit of the building sector of China has been decreasing yearly, but the energy structure has changed minimally (considering that clean energy is used). The total factor technical efficiency of the building sector of various provinces, cities, and regions is generally low, as verified in the evaluation of the energy-saving and emission abatement potential of the building sector of China. The energy saving and emission abatement of the building sector of China have great potential—that is, in approximately 50% of the total emissions of the building sector of China. In particular, Northeast and North China account for more than 50% of the total energy-saving and emission abatement potential. The study of the CO2 emissions and MAC of the building sector indicates that the larger the CO2 emissions are, the smaller MAC will be. The emission abatement efficiency is proportional to MAC. Based on this research, it can be more equitable and effective in formulating provincial emission reduction policy targets at the national level, and can maximize the contribution of the building sector of various provinces to the national carbon emission reduction. Full article
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