Calibration of EnergyPlus Building Simulation Model Using Existing Field Measurements
Publication: Journal of Architectural Engineering
Volume 27, Issue 4
Abstract
A basic requirement of a building is to provide indoor thermal conditions to maintain good health and improve productivity. This can be achieved by optimizing the building envelope design. In building optimization problems, the objective function cannot be defined directly in terms of design variables. Hence, it cannot be solved effectively using traditional optimization techniques. Therefore, a simulation-based optimization technique was used for building envelope design optimization. The objective of this study is to present a novel methodology to calibrate a simulation model by correlating indoor and outdoor temperatures obtained from the simulation results and comparing it with the existing results obtained from actual field measurements.
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Volume 27 • Issue 4 • December 2021
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Received: Jun 8, 2020
Accepted: Jun 17, 2021
Published online: Sep 23, 2021
Published in print: Dec 1, 2021
Discussion open until: Feb 23, 2022
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