Oppgave nr: BPO7
Related topics:
- TBA 4166 - Building Performance Simulation, see
- TEP 4235 - Energy Management in Buildings, see
- TBA 4171 - Building and Material Engineering, Advanced Course, see
Background for the task:
Building automation control systems can reduce the delivered energy to a building. Compared to retrofitting the envelope, these are rather simple and cheap measures to install, but the reward in terms of energy savings is significantly lower. Therefore, it will be interesting to find optimal retrofitting packages for existing residential buildings where both envelope upgrades and building automation are included.
Brief description of the assignment:
- The goal of this project is to optimize retrofitting solutions in combination with different levels of building automation. The solutions should be evaluated in terms of energy savings and indoor comfort. This is done for a) a typical detached single-family house and b) a typical apartment block.
- The tasks should be complementary to our previous work: ‘’Wood burning habits and its effect on the electrical energy demand of a retrofitted Norwegian detached house’’, see.
Number of students: 2 (one working on single-family housing, one working on apartments)
Contact person at IBAT:
- Mohamed Hamdy, associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTNU (mohamed.hamdy@ntnu.no).
- Laurina Felius, PhD candidate at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTNU (laurina.felius@ntnu.no).
- Shabnam Homaei, PhD candidate at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTNU (Shabnam.homaei@ntnu.no)
External partners:
- ENERSENSE is a strategic research area with focus on the nexus of energy efficiency, energy storage and sensor technologies, including automation.
- 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.