TY - GEN
T1 - Application of Sensitivity Analysis in Design of Sustainable Buildings
AU - Heiselberg, Per
AU - Brohus, Henrik
AU - Hesselholt, Allan Tind
AU - Rasmussen, Henrik Erreboe Schou
AU - Seinre, Erkki
AU - Thomas, Sara
N1 - Published on a CD
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Building performance can be expressed by different indicators as primary energy use, environmental load and/or the indoor environmental quality and a building performance simulation can provide the decision maker with a quantitative measure of the extent to which an integrated design solution satisfies the design requirements and objectives. In the design of sustainable Buildings it is beneficial to identify the most important design parameters in order to develop more efficiently alternative design solutions or reach optimized design solutions. A sensitivity analysis makes it possible to identify the most important parameters in relation to building performance and to focus design and optimization of sustainable buildings on these fewer, but most important parameters. The sensitivity analyses will typically be performed at a reasonably early stage of the building design process, where it is still possible to influence the important parameters. The methodology is presented and an application example is given for design of an office building in Denmark.
AB - Building performance can be expressed by different indicators as primary energy use, environmental load and/or the indoor environmental quality and a building performance simulation can provide the decision maker with a quantitative measure of the extent to which an integrated design solution satisfies the design requirements and objectives. In the design of sustainable Buildings it is beneficial to identify the most important design parameters in order to develop more efficiently alternative design solutions or reach optimized design solutions. A sensitivity analysis makes it possible to identify the most important parameters in relation to building performance and to focus design and optimization of sustainable buildings on these fewer, but most important parameters. The sensitivity analyses will typically be performed at a reasonably early stage of the building design process, where it is still possible to influence the important parameters. The methodology is presented and an application example is given for design of an office building in Denmark.
KW - Sustainable buildings
KW - Energy performance
KW - Sensitivity analyses
KW - Integrated design
M3 - Article in proceeding
BT - SDBE 2007
PB - Chongqing University
T2 - Sustainable Development of Building and Environment
Y2 - 25 September 2007 through 27 September 2007
ER -