All Outputs (6)

An innovative method for the assessment of thermal comfort and resilience in social housing (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Thermal evaluation of building envelopes is useful to approach efficient solutions for energy savings. Meteorological parameters represent an important role for this analysis. Future climate scenarios are considered to study climate behavior to provi... Read More about An innovative method for the assessment of thermal comfort and resilience in social housing.

Experimental study on the measurement of building infiltration and air leakage rate (at 4 and 50 Pa) by means of tracer gas methods, blower door and the novel pulse technique in a detached UK home (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Air infiltration contributes to a heat loss typically representing up to one third of the heating demand of a building. The building airtightness, also quantified as air leakage, is the fundamental building property that impacts infiltration. The ste... Read More about Experimental study on the measurement of building infiltration and air leakage rate (at 4 and 50 Pa) by means of tracer gas methods, blower door and the novel pulse technique in a detached UK home.

A technology platform for monitoring homes within a community energy scheme: design and implementation challenges (2018)
Conference Proceeding

This paper describes a technology platform for monitoring homes within a community energy scheme. A range of sensors were deployed to measure in-home environmental conditions, occupancy, electrical power, electrical energy, thermal energy, heating be... Read More about A technology platform for monitoring homes within a community energy scheme: design and implementation challenges.

Experimental studies of a pulse pressurisation technique for measuring building airtightness (2018)
Conference Proceeding

A pulse pressurisation technique is developed and utilised for determining building leakage at low pressure, based on a 'quasi-steady pulse' concept. The underlying principle of the technique is to subject the building envelope to a known volume chan... Read More about Experimental studies of a pulse pressurisation technique for measuring building airtightness.

QUB/e: Validation of a transient method for determining whole building thermal performance and building element U-values in situ under actual operating conditions (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Growing evidence in recent years has suggested that a difference exists between the design and the as-built thermal performance of UK dwellings. This difference commonly known as the ‘performance gap’ may have serious implications on the UK governmen... Read More about QUB/e: Validation of a transient method for determining whole building thermal performance and building element U-values in situ under actual operating conditions.

Experimental investigation of the impact of environmental conditions on the measurement of building infiltration, and its correlation with airtightness (2018)
Conference Proceeding

The air infiltration of a building, which fundamentally depends on its airtightness, can be a significant contributor to its heat loss. It can also be affected by other factors such as external terrain, leakage distribution, sheltering factor and env... Read More about Experimental investigation of the impact of environmental conditions on the measurement of building infiltration, and its correlation with airtightness.