Triple-A. Tailored energy renovation advice
Our research group participates in the development of online web-portal functionalities targeted directly towards individual home-owners. We are developing a cost and energy savings estimation method for the most common low carbon technologies for space heating. It is based on pre-calculated energy use figures for large variations of building properties, user profiles and housing typologies. Its implementation by the local authorities in their respective web portals, using their local energy and technology prices, will allow more accurate and tailored advice towards individual home-owners using the web-portals. To pre-calculate the large number of energy use figures required for this tailored advice, we can make use of an already existing, in-house developed software tool. This tool automates the energy use simulations for varying building and user properties. It uses BIM-software to link parametric building typologies to a simplified, though multi-zone heat-balance calculation model that can take into account different user profiles.
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Research group: Building Physics
Academic year: 2017 / 2018
Researcher(s): Marc Delghust and Wolf Bracke