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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"non-domestic buildings"”.
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Characterising Space Use and Electricity Consumption in Non-domestic Buildings
… used in the operation of the United Kingdom’s non-domestic buildings contributes 18% of national carbon dioxide emissions and reducing these is government policy. The use of electrical equipment in buildings is a major contributor to overall consumption, due to both its intrinsic energy …
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Decision-making in the selection of retrofit facades for non-domestic buildings
… have resulted in a large stock of ageing office buildings at risk of structural vacancy and obsolescence. Despite their lack of insulation, high air infiltration, and solar gain, many such buildings from the 1960s-1970s are still in use today. Moreover, with UK buildings replaced at a rate of …
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Narrowing the Energy Performance Gap in Non-Domestic Buildings with Aspirational Sustainability Targets
The non-domestic building sector has in recent years witnessed a boom in the number of ostensibly ‘green’ buildings certified under the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) and similar rating schemes. Despite the proliferation of aspirationally sustainable …
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Climate-responsive design for non-domestic buildings in warm climates : optimisation of thermal mass for indoor cooling
… focuses on the study of the thermal inertia of buildings examining the extent to which the envelope and internal components can moderate their internal climate. Especial emphasis is given to the analysis of thermal mass effects in conditions of overheating in buildings with predominantly …
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Modelling on-domestic buildings energy performance using machine learning methods, a case study of the UK
In the UK, only 7% of non-domestic buildings are newly built, whilst this sector generates 20% of total gas emission. Consequently, the government has setregulations to decrease the amount of energy take-up by buildings. It is apparent from the seminal literature that deep energy retrofit is the …
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A data-centric stochastic model for simulation of occupant-related energy demand in buildings
… can help to achieve the necessary targets. For buildings yet to be built there is a real opportunity to design low-energy environments, but the existing building stock will largely still be in existence in 50 years and so retrofit options must also be explored. No matter how efficient a building …
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An Investigation into the Management of Energy Performance for Building Services Systems: Design to Operation
Non-domestic buildings account for 12% of UK greenhouse emissions (CIBSE, 2017). There is acceptance that the energy performance of buildings must improve. Presently building energy data is only available in terms of total annual fossil or electrical energy totals. These are blunt instruments for …
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Structured Mining and Analysis of Public Energy Data to Evaluate, Improve and Assist the Execution of the UK’s Built Environment Energy Efficiency Policies
… a two-step framework, demonstrated by analysing domestic gas consumption, to bridge the resolution differences between data and policy executive bodies. Different clustering algorithms (i.e. Gaussian Mixture Model and Hierarchical Clustering) were selected to cope with the objective in each …
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Developing energy-loss test techniques for large buildings.
… made of the completed building envelope. For all non-domestic buildings with a gross floor area of greater than 1000m[2] an air leakage test would be required in accordance with CIBSE TM 23:2000 to prove that the construction was reasonably airtight. The improvements made in the thermal …
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Advanced Occupancy Measurement Using Sensor Fusion
With roughly about half of the energy used in buildings attributed to Heating, Ventilation, and Air conditioning (HVAC) systems, there is clearly great potential for energy saving through improved building operations. Accurate knowledge of localised and real-time occupancy numbers can have …
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The analysis of primary metered half-hourly electricity and gas consumption in municipal buildings.
… that was tested for 6 types of municipal buildings. This approach is different from conventional annual benchmarking mainly because it uses electricity and gas data in half-hourly periods, together with outside temperature data. A survey to European local authorities’ metering and …