With the increasing interest in climate change driven by human activity, recent research has focused on the impact of climate change or urban heat island on building operation and performance across the world. But this work usually aggregates the energy and peak demand impacts across a broad sector. In a recent study, impacts on the operating performance of an office building were estimated based on climate change and heat island scenarios in 25 locations (20 climate regions). This presentation presents the variation and differences among the 20 regions when climate change is introduced. The focus is on changes in comfort conditions, building equipment operation as well as daily patterns of energy performance using prototypical buildings that represent typical, good, and low-energy practices around the world. Other issues such as fuel swapping as heating and cooling ratios change, impacts on environmental emissions, and how low-energy building design incorporating renewables can significantly mitigate any potential climate variation are also presented.

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ASHRAE UK Midlands and RED Engineering Data Centre Training for Students

ASHRAE UK Midlands and RED Engineering Data Centre Training for Students

ASHRAE UK Midlands and RED Engineering Data Centre Training for Students - In-person EventRead More »
Impacts of Climate Change and Urbanization on Future Building Performance

Impacts of Climate Change and Urbanization on Future Building Performance

Impacts of Climate Change and Urbanization on Future Building PerformanceRead More »
Industry Guidelines on Indoor Air Quality

Industry Guidelines on Indoor Air Quality

This CPD webinar will provide details on the monitoring system for Indoor air quality and industry guidelines for IAQRead More »
Heat batteries – Revolutionising thermal storage

Heat batteries – Revolutionising thermal storage

This presentation will discuss how the use of phase-change material based heat batteries will contribute to meeting the decarbonisation.Read More »
HVAC air filter system design tools: what is available and how to use them

HVAC air filter system design tools: what is available and how to use them

The proposed lecture is intended to illustrate what tools are now available to quantify the particulate matter and the design of filtration.Read More »

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