TY - GEN
T1 - A Methodology for Generating A Synthetic Local Urban Climate Weather Profile for Building Energy Simulations in Hot Arid Areas
AU - Elnabawi, Mohamed H.
AU - Hamza, Neveen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© International Building Performance Simulation Association, 2022
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - A well-designed build up environment should include thermally comfortable outdoor spaces as well as low energy and thermally comfortable buildings, this paper aims to evaluate a coupling method between ENVI-met 4 as a microclimate model and IESVE as a Building Energy Modelling (BEM) software. The ENVI-met calculation for the outdoor microclimate conditions is used to specify the thermal boundary conditions for the building simulation modelling to give a realistic building energy consumption profile. The results revealed that the energy simulation using the generated 'urban specific weather datasets' (USWDs) performed better than the one using the weather file obtained from the international weather station with only 6% deviation against 15% compared to the actual electricity consumption.
AB - A well-designed build up environment should include thermally comfortable outdoor spaces as well as low energy and thermally comfortable buildings, this paper aims to evaluate a coupling method between ENVI-met 4 as a microclimate model and IESVE as a Building Energy Modelling (BEM) software. The ENVI-met calculation for the outdoor microclimate conditions is used to specify the thermal boundary conditions for the building simulation modelling to give a realistic building energy consumption profile. The results revealed that the energy simulation using the generated 'urban specific weather datasets' (USWDs) performed better than the one using the weather file obtained from the international weather station with only 6% deviation against 15% compared to the actual electricity consumption.
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U2 - 10.26868/25222708.2021.30356
DO - 10.26868/25222708.2021.30356
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85151503253
T3 - Building Simulation Conference Proceedings
SP - 1459
EP - 1465
BT - BS 2021 - Proceedings of Building Simulation 2021
A2 - Saelens, Dirk
A2 - Laverge, Jelle
A2 - Boydens, Wim
A2 - Helsen, Lieve
PB - International Building Performance Simulation Association
T2 - 17th IBPSA Conference on Building Simulation, BS 2021
Y2 - 1 September 2021 through 3 September 2021
ER -
