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Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings in a Warm-Humid Urban Climate
Buildings are high-energy consumers. In warm and humid climates, it is mainly due to artificial conditioning. The problem being addressed in the present chapter is how to reduce the energy demand for air conditioning in homes with tourist accommodation, taking as case study traditional one-storey buildings in El Vedado, a “garden city” urbanization in Havana.
Design variables and strategies for energy retrofit of these buildings in warm and humid urban contexts are defined and discussed in the theoretical framework. A theoretical model of a house with central corridor is made, as well as the parametric models of four types of the immediate context to be used for the evaluation of the indoor thermal environment and energy consumption by dynamic simulations.
The monitoring results of one case were taken as the basis to calibrate the input data for simulation with the software EnergyPlus. Once calibrated and validated, the starting situation, possible actions and design solutions proposed for energy retrofit were evaluated. Proposed actions would permit to reduce energy consumption by air conditioning and to verify several criteria and theoretical inaccuracies with respect to the thermal and energy behaviour of these traditional historical buildings (100 years old).
Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings in a Warm-Humid Urban Climate
Buildings are high-energy consumers. In warm and humid climates, it is mainly due to artificial conditioning. The problem being addressed in the present chapter is how to reduce the energy demand for air conditioning in homes with tourist accommodation, taking as case study traditional one-storey buildings in El Vedado, a “garden city” urbanization in Havana.
Design variables and strategies for energy retrofit of these buildings in warm and humid urban contexts are defined and discussed in the theoretical framework. A theoretical model of a house with central corridor is made, as well as the parametric models of four types of the immediate context to be used for the evaluation of the indoor thermal environment and energy consumption by dynamic simulations.
The monitoring results of one case were taken as the basis to calibrate the input data for simulation with the software EnergyPlus. Once calibrated and validated, the starting situation, possible actions and design solutions proposed for energy retrofit were evaluated. Proposed actions would permit to reduce energy consumption by air conditioning and to verify several criteria and theoretical inaccuracies with respect to the thermal and energy behaviour of these traditional historical buildings (100 years old).
Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings in a Warm-Humid Urban Climate
Innovative Renewable Energy
Sayigh, Ali (editor) / Baldoquin, Natali Collado (author) / Couret, Dania González (author) / Guzmán, Luis Alberto Rueda (author)
2022-10-30
33 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Warm-humid climate , Urban microclimate , Energy retrofit , Traditional buildings , Housing with touristic accommodation , Monitoring , Dynamic simulations , Calibration , Parametric context models , Theoretical housing model , Design solution , Energy consumption reduction , Heat island effect , Thermal inertia , Soil temperature Energy , Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings , Renewable and Green Energy , Sustainable Development , Building Construction and Design , Building Materials
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