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Revisiting cooling energy requirements of residential buildings in Portugal in light of climate change
| dc.contributor.author | Panão, Marta Oliveira | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-31T14:27:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-31T14:27:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Since climate data for building energy simulation have recently been refreshed with 1971–2000 observational data and theoretically influenced by a conservative approach of climate change, benchmarks forcooling energy requirements for residential buildings are discussed for a set of 30 regions in Portugal,mainland and islands, as a contribution to the next revision of Portuguese building thermal code (DL118/2013). The main conclusion is that gain utilization factor correlates with average external air tem-perature for summer season by a logarithmic function. The benchmark for gain utilization factor playsan important role in defining cooling energy requirements. A set of recommendations are suggested:(i) using the gain utilization factor as an index to evaluate the overheating risk, thus, for values abovea defined threshold cooling energy needs could be neglected for primary energy demand quantifica-tion; this measure may encourage designers to integrate passive cooling systems; (ii) defining a nationalroadmap based on technological advances of shading solutions for benchmark parameterization of thewest equivalent collecting area by unit of floor area starting from 0.065. | por |
| dc.identifier.citation | Panão, Marta O. Revisiting cooling energy requirements of residential buildings in Portugal in light of climate change. In: Energy and Buildings, 2014, Vol. 76, p. 354-362 | por |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0378-7788 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/2366 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | por |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.02.060 | por |
| dc.subject | Cooling Energy | por |
| dc.subject | Building thermal code | por |
| dc.subject | Climate change | por |
| dc.subject | Benchmark | por |
| dc.title | Revisiting cooling energy requirements of residential buildings in Portugal in light of climate change | por |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 362 | por |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 354 | por |
| oaire.citation.title | Energy and Building | por |
| oaire.citation.volume | 76 | por |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | article | por |