Using the building mass to obtain thermal comfort in the summer period: a green solution

Authors

  • W. Bosschaerts Royal Military Academy, Mechanics Department, Brussels, Belgium
  • T. Nikiforova SHEE “Pridneprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture”, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
  • K. Limam Laboratory of engineering sciences for environment (LaSIE), University of La Rochelle, France
  • M. Savytskyi SHEE “Pridneprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture”, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Keywords:

The quality of the environment, mortality, engineering and design solution

Abstract

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is an important issue for many stakeholders: be it the owner, the user either the employee. Many studies pointed out that the annual cost for getting a good quality indoors, can be located between 9 and 25 EUR per square meter. While the functional cost (including salary) can be as high as 680 to 5100 EUR per square meter. The ratio between those two costs being two orders of magnitude different. IEQ deals with: thermal comfort, air quality, noise acoustics, illumination and exposure time. The personal factors that help to realize comfort are: activity, clothing, adaption and expectation. If good IEQ cannot realized with personal factors a good air conditioning system has to be put in place. During the preliminary design the design engineer should propose different solutions to the owner and architect. Different projects call for different solutions. In this contribution an example will be discussed, showing how a design engineer could suggest acceptable solutions for thermal comfort and air quality, without generating ventilation noise neither use active cooling energy.

References

Numerical sensitivity study of transient surface convection during night cooling. Sarah Leenknegt, Rolf Wagemakers, Walter Bosschaerts, Dirk Saelens (Elsevier Energy and Buildings 53. – (2012). P. 85-95.

Numerical study of convection during night cooling and theimplications for convection modeling in Building Energy Simulation models. Sarah Leenknegt, Rolf Wagemakers, Walter Bosschaerts, Dirk Saelens(Elsevier Energy and Buildings 64. – (2013). P. 41-52.

Numerical and experimental analysis of passive cooling through night ventilation Sarah Leenknegt PhD thesis. – 2013.

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Innovative lifecycle technology of housing and civil, industrial and transportation purposes