EXPERIENCES FROM CASE STUDIES IN AN IEA EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS PROJECT

摘要

Educational buildings such as: kindergartens, schools, and universities display many similar design, operation and maintenance features throughout many countries. The two overwhelming similarities amongst these building types are the high energy consumptions and the necessity to retrofit many buildings within this sector. However, studies have shown that during retrofit energy saving measures are only rarely applied, because of a lack of knowledge by the decision makers regarding the investments and the efficiency of potential energy saving measures. Due to the lack of information, in many cases decisions are made that do not accurately take into account energy saving aspects. This is the background for initiating the IEA ECBCS project Annex 36: Retrofitting in Educational Buildings-REDUCE - Energy Concept Adviser for Technical Retrofit Measures. rnThe objectives of subtask B were to document experiences from case studies retrofitted with energy saving technologies and based on these experiences deduce design guidelines. The reported case studies have been categorised according to typology and implemented technologies. A reporting format was developed for the recording of experiences. A case study report has been produced, additional case studies reported in the final year of the project will be presented on the project’s websites. Design guidelines deduced from the case studies will be used for the software tool (Energy Concept Advisor) to assist educational building decision makers in the development of a retrofit project.