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IES Creates Unique Climate Energy Index System for Sustainable Design
Looking at the climate, in the building independent manner, at both the local level and within a global context creates a detailed understanding of the climate, what regions share similar characteristics, where energy use needs to be focused in order to deliver occupant comfort and also provides a simple benchmark for comparing climate/weather files. It is a key element often overlooked in the sustainable building design process. In addition, including future weather data allows an understanding of climate dynamics over the life of the building to be achieved.
The IES Climate Energy Index assists in both the masterplanning and concept design stages to understand what passive and low-carbon design strategies make the most sense. It recognizes that building energy use is very climate dependent. Building simulation results can also be compared with this Index to give a simple measure of design performance against potential given the climate.
The index is a simple measure of the potential energy (kWh/yr per M3/hr) required to maintain air quality within a comfortable occupant zone, and is split into heating, cooling, humidification and dehumidification requirements. It is based on climate alone excluding any consideration of building design or occupancy. It can be applied generically for 24-hour use, or to suit the occupancy patterns of any building.
“This new Index alleviates a major ‘ease of understanding’ problem for designers and architects who are looking to achieve a fully sustainable building,” said Don McLean, founder and managing director of IES. “We are providing climate information combined with energy-usage data in a new and more informative manner, eliminating unnecessary collation and interrogation to facilitate understanding, and all within easy-to-use applications. This new Index system is a unique value-add to our existing software offerings, and one which we are already developing further.”
The Climate Energy Index system is available for IES software users. Within free VE-Ware, the headline Climate Energy Index figures are provided. Both the VE-Toolkits and VE-Gaia outputs include the same features as VE-Ware but also include global comparisons and breakdowns of potential energy types. The Climate Energy Index compliments the Climate and Building Metric tools released in the latest VE-Toolkit and VE Gaia products. These automated tools analyze the climate data for the location, or analyze the building data bringing relevant characteristics to the surface for evaluation and determining design strategies.
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High Rise Residential Towers-Sustainable concepts.
Therefore let's start by looking at Singapore. Most housing is government sponsored and erected by the Housing Development Board. All these buildings tend to be vertically oriented residential units or "HDB flats" as they are commonly referred to. Concrete structures with masonry infill or precast concrete panels for the walls and no insulation. Many of these buildings are clumped together and for the most part seem to have very little variety in form or heights.
A general solution, would be to ensure that proper site analysis/ studies are carried out before designs for any building is started. Understanding how wind and sun works on a particular site, can be the driving force of how these high rise buildings are formed and oriented. The unit plans of the flats could be arranged in a way to block solar heat gain from the western sun and to maximize cooling from prevailing winds. Buildings could be oriented to funnel winds through them and not block it. Additionally, instead of trying to maximize units within these buildings it may help to change the heights of the buildings to create daylight and wind corridors. While it is efficient to have all the units the same size because it easier to construct, sometimes having variations can provide variety to a buildings facade and help with passive energy design. Taking a page from commercial office towers like the Kommertzbank or Menara Mesiniaga, roof top gardens or mid level gardens that step through a building or open up atriums within the core of the building, can help create a "green" belt within the buildings themselves. Imagine if you would, buildings that have natural daylight, ventilation biodiversity through landscaping and evaporative cooling available through waterscapes in these roof gardens. These high rise residential buildings could use their building forms and orientation to take advantage of the sun to generate enough power to sustain themselves from an energy standpoint. The trick of course is to design the photo voltaic panels into the form of the buildings in a way that is both innovative and visually pleasant. It's not just about sticking panels to the roof or walls of a building.
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