Oppgave nr: BPO3
Related topics:
· Energy Management in Buildings (e.g., TEP 4235)
· Building Performance Simulation (e.g., TBA 4166)
· Building and Material Engineering (e.g., TBA 4171)
Background for the task
Buildings performance can be affected by uncertainties and unforeseen events related to changing environments (e.g. extreme weather conditions and changes in occupant behavior) or changing requirements (e.g. applying new technologies and regulations). Thus, buildings should be able to react to these events in order to last their performance. Building designers and decision-makers consider such changes and uncertainties in the design or renovation phase and implement mechanisms to protect the building performance against adverse events in the future. One of these mechanisms is a resilient building design. A resilient building can prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events in the operation phase.
Taking resilience into account assures designers, decision-makers, and homeowners that the buildings will perform well and on the expected level against future changes, through either maintaining its performance and functionality or recovering quickly in the case of failing its functionality.
Literature shows that in order to achieve resilient design, different principles, such as redundancy, robustness, efficiency, adaptability, flexibility, etc., should be considered. This confirms that resilience demands more than robustness, flexibility, etc.
Brief description of the task:
- The objective of this project is to develop a framework for energy resilience evaluation of buildings at a neighborhood scale.
- The tasks should be complementary to our ongoing work: ‘’ An energy resilience framework for zero emission buildings at the neighbourhood scale’’. PhD thesis, see.
Number of students on the thesis: Two
Contact person at IBM:
- Mohamed Hamdy, associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTNU (mohamed.hamdy@ntnu.no).
- Shabnam Homaei, PhD candidate at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTNU (Shabnam.homaei@ntnu.no)
External partners:
- The Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities – ZEN Centre
The Research Centre on Zero Energy Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities (ZEN Centre) is a Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) funded by the Research Council of Norway and the consortium partners. The main objective of the ZEN Centre is to develop knowledge, competitive products and solutions that will lead to realization of sustainable neighbourhoods that have zero emissions of greenhouse gases related to their production, operation and transformation.