Building Integrated Shading and Building Applied Photovoltaic System Assessment in the Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of Office Buildings

Martinopoulos, Georgios; Serasidou, Anna; Antoniadou, Panagiota; Papadopoulos, Agis M.

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Building Integrated Shading and Building Applied Photovoltaic System Assessment in the Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of Office Buildings

Georgios Martinopoulos

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Anna Serasidou

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Panagiota Antoniadou

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Agis M. Papadopoulos

School of Science and Technology, International Hellenic University, 14th km Thessaloniki-Moudania, EL57001 Thermi, Greece

Process Equipment Design Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, POB 487, EL 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

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Sustainability 2018, 10(12), 4670; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124670

Received: 29 October 2018 / Revised: 2 December 2018 / Accepted: 4 December 2018 / Published: 7 December 2018

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Various Energy Efficiency Measures on the Thermal and Energy Performance of Buildings)

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Non-residential and more specifically office buildings are, nowadays, an integral part of the building stock and milestones of urban areas in most of the developed and developing countries all over the world. Compared to other building types, office buildings present some of the highest specific energy consumption rates. In the present study, a typical nine-story office is assessed for a number of different building integrated retrofitting measures. Measurements of indoor environmental conditions were used in order to validate the developed simulation model of the building in EnergyPlus. Then, a number of different building integration options for photovoltaic systems and shading options are examined, in order to evaluate the best option in terms of indoor air quality, thermal comfort and energy consumption. The amount of electricity produced can meet 65% of the building’s annual electricity requirements, while the shading options can reduce energy requirements by as much as 33%. Although this in not a value that can be dismissed easily, it becomes clear that further—and more deeply aiming—measures are needed, if the building is to achieve near zero energy status. View Full-Text

Keywords: office buildings; BIPV (Building Integrated Photovoltaic); energy performance; EnergyPlus; simulation; thermal comfort

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Martinopoulos, G.; Serasidou, A.; Antoniadou, P.; Papadopoulos, A.M. Building Integrated Shading and Building Applied Photovoltaic System Assessment in the Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of Office Buildings. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4670. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124670

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Martinopoulos G, Serasidou A, Antoniadou P, Papadopoulos AM. Building Integrated Shading and Building Applied Photovoltaic System Assessment in the Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of Office Buildings. Sustainability. 2018; 10(12):4670. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124670

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Martinopoulos, Georgios, Anna Serasidou, Panagiota Antoniadou, and Agis M. Papadopoulos. 2018. "Building Integrated Shading and Building Applied Photovoltaic System Assessment in the Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of Office Buildings" Sustainability 10, no. 12: 4670. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124670

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