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Proceedings of BSO Conference 2014: 2nd Conference of IBPSA-England

     

BUILDING ENERGY AND LIGHT SIMULATIONS FOR THE DESIGN OF PASSIVE-APARTMENT BUILDINGS IN BELGIUM

Luis Miguel, Candanedo Ibarra, Véronique Feldheim, Eric Dumont, Stéphane Pierret, Dominique Deramaix

Abstract: The preliminary design of a new low-energy apartment building for a demonstration project in Belgium has been simulated using DIALux evo and TRNSYS. The two main objectives of this work are to obtain affordable building designs with primary energy consumption lower than 60kWh/m 2 •year (excluding appliances energy usage) and to ensure that the space heating demand for each house is below 15kWh/m 2 •year. This work presents a set of design options that was obtained using GenOpt to minimize the energy demand for heating and cooling in the thermal zone with the highest demand. Photovoltaic energy generation simulations show that it is possible to reach near net zero energy buildings using these designs.
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bso2014_14