Open AccessStudy on building performance considering climate characteristics for university facility in Japan
Author(s) -
Yuki Naito,
Ryoichi Kuwahara
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/609/7/072030
Subject(s) - glazing , energy consumption , architectural engineering , thermal insulation , energy performance , primary energy , efficient energy use , consumption (sociology) , climate zones , civil engineering , thermal comfort , building energy simulation , energy (signal processing) , environmental science , thermal , zero energy building , engineering , materials science , meteorology , renewable energy , electrical engineering , geography , social science , statistics , mathematics , layer (electronics) , physical geography , sociology , composite material
This study was investigated the building performance of each area for university facilities. The purpose is to propose optimal building performance for each area. As the background, the target building needs the energy-saving renovation. The target building has been built for 25 years and aged. In addition, the primary energy consumption of the target building is larger than the primary energy consumption of standard university facilities. Therefore, it is necessary to renovate buildings and facilities, and plans should be made to save more energy. This research method was examined changing the building performance for each area by using the Building Energy Simulation Tool (BEST) program of the energy simulation. Building performance is the thermal insulation of the outer wall and the type of glazing. As a result, In Ube, primary energy consumption tends to increase if thermal insulation performance is increased too much. In Sapporo, primary energy consumption tends to decrease as thermal insulation performance increases. In Naha, it turned out that increasing the thermal insulation performance is not effective.