[New Paper] Climate change-sensitive sizing and design for nearly zero-energy office building systems in Brussels

As climate change continues, the risk of 🌡️overheating is expected to rise in both new and existing 🏢 buildings in 🌍 Europe. To address this challenge, our new #EnergyandBuilding paper "Climate change sensitive sizing and design for nearly zero-energy office building systems in Brussels" introduced a novel climate change-sensitive 🤌 sizing and design approach for 💦cooling and 🔥heating systems in nearly 🟰 zero-energy office buildings in Brussels, 🇧🇪 Belgium, for different 🌤️ weather scenarios.

✅ A real office building with a baseline HVAC system of an air-cooled chiller (electric) with water cooling coils and a water boiler (natural gas) with water heating coils was identified near Brussels, Belgium.

✅ The baseline was compared with an air-cooled chiller (electric) with chilled ceilings and a water boiler (electric) with heated floors, and a reversible air-cooled VRF unit (electric) with DX cooling coils and DX heating coils for future scenarios.

This approach considered the long-term effects of climate change on building performance. The 🌦️ climate change effects were assessed using current and future climate data from the regional atmospheric model. A case study of a nearly zero-energy office building in Brussels was conducted to demonstrate the approach.

🔴 Citation: Amaripadath, D., Rahif, R., Zuo, W., Velickovic, M., Voglaire, C., & Attia, S. (2023). Climate change sensitive sizing and design for nearly zero-energy office building systems in Brussels. Energy and Buildings, 286, 112971.

📣 Read and share the 📄 article. The paper is available in Open Access format: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/300783

Deepak Amaripadath leads this joint research with Ramin Rahif, Wangda Zuo, Mirjana Velickovic, Corentin Voglaire and Shady Attia. Looking forward to more collaborations with other International colleagues. Special thanks to Deepak Amaripadath for the excellent work and for #MKEngineering for sharing their insights and expertise.

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