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Regression models to assess the thermal performance of Brazilian low-cost houses: consideration of opaque envelope

Favretto, Ana Paula Oliveira

Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo 2016-01-26

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  • Título:
    Regression models to assess the thermal performance of Brazilian low-cost houses: consideration of opaque envelope
  • Autor: Favretto, Ana Paula Oliveira
  • Orientador: Chvatal, Karin Maria Soares
  • Assuntos: Conforto Térmico; Habitações De Interesse Social; Modelos De Regressão; Simulação Do Desempenho De Edificações; Building Performance Simulation; Low-Cost Housing; Regression Model; Thermal Comfort
  • Notas: Dissertação (Mestrado)
  • Descrição: This study examines the potential to conduct building thermal performance simulation (BPS) of unconditioned low-cost housing during the early design stages. By creating a set of regression models (meta-models) based on EnergyPlus simulations, this research aims to promote and simplify BPS in the building envelope design process. The meta-models can be used as tools adapted for three Brazilian cities: Curitiba, São Paulo and Manaus, providing decision support to designers by enabling rapid feedback that links early design decisions to the buildings thermal performance. The low-cost housing unit studied is a detached onestory house with an area of approximately 51m2, which includes two bedrooms, a combined kitchen and living room, and one bathroom. This representative configuration is based on collected data about the most common residence options in some Brazilian cities. This naturally ventilated residence is simulated in the Airflow Network module in EnergyPlus, which utilizes the average wind pressure coefficients provided by the software. The parametric simulations vary the house orientation, U-value, heat capacity and absorptance of external walls and the roof, the heat capacity of internal walls, the window-to-wall ratio, type of window (slider or casement), and the existence of horizontal and/or vertical shading devices with varying dimensions. The models predict the resulting total degree-hours of discomfort in a year due to heat and cold, based on comfort limits defined by the adaptive method for naturally ventilated residences according to ANSI ASHRAE Standard 55. The methodology consists of (a) analyzing a set of Brazilian low-cost housing projects and defining a geometric model that can represent it; (b) determining a list of design parameters relevant to thermal comfort and defining value ranges to be considered; (c) defining the input data for the 10.000 parametric simulations used to create and test the meta-models for each analyzed climate; (d) simulating thermal performance using Energy Plus; (e) using 60% of the simulated cases to develop the regression models; and (f) using the remaining 40% data to validate the meta-models. Except by Heat discomfort regression models for the cities of Curitiba and São Paulo the meta-models show R2 values superior to 0.9 indicating accurate predictions when compared to the discomfort predicted with the output data from EnergyPlus, the original simulation software. Meta-models application tests are performed and the meta-models show great potential to guide designers decisions during the early design.
  • DOI: 10.11606/D.102.2016.tde-10102016-132422
  • Editor: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2016-01-26
  • Formato: Adobe PDF
  • Idioma: Inglês
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