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Overheating is increasingly becoming a key issue for building design across the world. In the UK, better building fabric performance and warmer weather can increase the risk of overheating events in badly designed buildings. The impacts of these overheating events could be reduced by adapting building designs at an early design stage using building thermal models using appropriate weather data such as a design summer year. In this work, a method to determine probabilistic design summer years will be presented. These years take into account the return periods of actual events, are presented within a probabilistic framework and therefore include a description of the severity of the year at each location.
Practical application: Design summer years are designed to be used to optimise building performance in terms of thermal comfort at design stage. This paper demonstrates a method to create probabilistic design summer years which contain a range of overheating events which can be used to inform designers of the overheating risk to occupants. The proposed method is then used to generate new near extreme weather files for the UK.
Overheating is increasingly becoming a key issue for building design across the world. In the UK, better building fabric performance and warmer weather can increase the risk of overheating events in badly designed buildings. The impacts of these overheating events could be reduced by adapting building designs at an early design stage using building thermal models using appropriate weather data such as a design summer year. In this work, a method to determine probabilistic design summer years will be presented. These years take into account the return periods of actual events, are presented within a probabilistic framework and therefore include a description of the severity of the year at each location.
Practical application: Design summer years are designed to be used to optimise building performance in terms of thermal comfort at design stage. This paper demonstrates a method to create probabilistic design summer years which contain a range of overheating events which can be used to inform designers of the overheating risk to occupants. The proposed method is then used to generate new near extreme weather files for the UK.
An update of the UK’s design summer years: Probabilistic design summer years for enhanced overheating risk analysis in building design
Eames, ME (author)
Building Services Engineering Research & Technology ; 37 ; 503-522
2016-09-01
20 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Future probabilistic hot summer years for overheating risk assessments
| British Library Online Contents | 2016
Future probabilistic hot summer years for overheating risk assessments
| Online Contents | 2016
Future probabilistic hot summer years for overheating risk assessments
| British Library Online Contents | 2016