Naturally air-conditioned nearly zero-energy housing: The Earth, Wind & Fire Case Study

Dutch housing built before the 1990s consumes the highest percentage of<br/>primary energy for heating and generally exhibits poor comfort. With the government targeting to convert 300,000 existing homes to become more energy-efficient every year, a renovation wave has started. How do we achieve this? This paper proposes a natural air...

Investigating human behaviour using sensors measuring the indoor climate and energy performance of three Dutch residential dwellings

Developing a locally balanced energy system for an existing neighbourhood, using the ‘Smart Urban Isle’ approach

This paper describes a step-by-step approach for generating various energy concepts for neighbourhoods, based on local renewable resources. The approach is developed within the European research project ‘Smart Urban Isle’ (SUI). While much literature is focussed on comparison or optimization of predefined configurations, the SUI approach adds...

Thermal comfort, IAQ and Energy use in bedrooms

The research question of this report is “Is it possible to save energy by lowering the bedroom temperatures in winter”. In this paper first the literature on optimum sleeping temperatures is investigated. Then bedroom temperatures and CO2 levels in a cold week in March 2018 are investigated in 16 bedrooms of students of the Master course...