Applying Energy Performance-Based Design in Early Design Stages

Applying Energy Performance-Based Design in Early Design Stages

Ianni, M.
Sanchez de Leon, M.

2013-09-18

In current architectural practice some important changes are taking place because of the development of numerous Building Performance Simulations (BPS) tools to support design decisions during early phases of the design process. Many difficulties still persist, however, not necessarily due to the limitations of the available technology, but to the lack of appropriate methodologies to use the existing tools to improve the decision making process, particularly at the early design stages. In this work we present an application of performance-based design in early design phases, with the purpose to take better-informed decisions which would ultimately contribute to improve the energy performance of buildings.

energy performance-based design
design methodology
design decision-making process
building energy efficiency
building performance simulation tools

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(c) 2013 Ianni, M.; Sanchez de Leon, M.