Developing Standards For Low-energy Buildings in The Gulf States

摘要

Energy standards impact upon building performance. This paper presents a framework to develop energy standards for buildings based upon established benchmarks. The framework first optimised building design, and then used the outcome to develop energy standards for office buildings. Energy-10 was used to model and achieve energy performance targets by optimising the energy design of a single storey-building model. The outcome of optimising the model provided the basis for developing two types of energy standards - prescriptive standards and performance standards. As the developed model may not fit with other sensitivities and elements of building design, a performance scale was provided in order to present optimum and close-to-optimum designs. It was intended that this study would show how the building design optimisation, structured towards established benchmarks, could support the development of energy standards. The applicability of the performance scale is demonstrated through a case study from Bahrain.