Document Type
Article
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
2. ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, Construction engineering
Abstract
Average reference dwellings representing a predominant housing typology are defined in this work. Specifying such reference buildings is a prerequisite for (i) calculating cost-optimal energy performance requirements for buildings and building elements and (ii) ensuring valid calculations of national building energy consumption. In the EU, an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating is an assessment of the energy consumption of a dwelling. The use of inappropriate default-values for the building envelope thermal transmittance coefficients (U-values) and standardised thermal bridging transmittance coefficients (Y-values) in the production of EPCs leads to an over-estimation of potential energy savings from interventions in the existing dwelling stock.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.109886
Recommended Citation
Ahern, C. & Norton, B. (2020) A Generalisable Bottom-up Methodology for Deriving a Residential Stock Model From Large Empirical Databases. Energy & Buildings, vol. 215, 15th May, 2020. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.109886
Publication Details
Energy & Buildings, vol. 215, 15th May, 2020.