Conference Paper

Proceedings of Building Simulation 2019: 16th Conference of IBPSA

     

Forming a Unitary Envelope Thermal Performance Index for Office Buildings in Taiwan

Ruey-Lung Hwang 1, Ming-Chin Ho 3, I-Ting Lai 2, Kuo-Tsang Huang 2
1 National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
2 National Taiwan University, Taiwan
3 China University of Technology, Taiwan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.210312
Abstract: It is a crucial method to mitigate greenhouse gas emission and save building energy by complying the formulated regulations on buildings’ envelope efficiency design. The existing Taiwanese building technical regulation provides three evaluation alternatives to comply with while developing a building envelope design scheme. Each evaluation alternative uses different index to direct a building’s envelope energy efficiency design. However, it exhibits inconsistencies among these alternative methods including the use of different building design and climatic parameters, which would result in counterintuitive contradictions in some certain evaluation cases. To solve this phenomenon, this study attempts to integrate the three evaluation methods and propose a new index to regulate the building envelope’s energy efficiency design.
Keywords: Passive design, Envelope Thermal Performance Index, Sensitivity analysis, Simulation-based approach
Pages: 3817 - 3822
Paper:

BS2019_210312