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Low energy refurbishment strategies for health buildings

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posted on 2011-10-12, 12:53 authored by C. Alan Short, Malcolm CookMalcolm Cook, Paul C. Cropper, Sura Al-Maiyah
Public health buildings contribute significantly to UK carbon emissions. New build initiatives have received more attention than the considerable opportunities to reduce carbon emissions within the retained health estate. The research reported here has considered the environmental performance of a typical medium rise, medium depth, concrete-framed, late 1960s acute hospital following low energy environmental design interventions. The interventions are made to optimize daylighting and natural ventilation/cooling whilst reducing overheating caused by summer time solar gains. Three options are investigated: advanced natural ventilation using plena and exhaust stacks; fan-assisted natural ventilation in which fans are used in the exhaust stacks; and mechanical ventilation/cooling with heat recovery. Computer simulations have been carried out to predict the influence on thermal performance (overheating risk) and energy consumption of each of these options on the original design. For each case, current weather data, and future weather data for the years 2020, 2050 and 2080, have been used.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Citation

SHORT, C.A. ... et al, 2010. Low energy refurbishment strategies for health buildings. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 3 (3), pp. 197-216

Publisher

Taylor and Francis (© International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA))

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2010

Notes

This is an electronic version of an article that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation [Taylor and Francis (© International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)] and the definitive version is available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19401490903318218

ISSN

1940-1493

Language

  • en