HEAT CHECK (Heating and Temperature Characteristics in Irish Buildings)

Project Description

This project aims to investigate the relationships between the energy consumption and internal environment quality (IEQ) profiles of residential buildings, the people occupying the buildings and the materials used in construction/retrofit of the Irish residential and educational/office buildings with the overarching aim to improve the energy audit procedure for the DEAP and NEAP energy compliance tools. Primarily, this will be achieved by monitoring occupant energy demand behaviours and IEQ profiles of domestic and non-domestic Irish buildings. This will allow comparison to standard assumptions made in steady state building energy performance compliance procedures DEAP, NEAP and PHPP. The HEAT CHECK project will make use of data already collected as part of 3 field studies which includes data on 22 existing residential buildings which underwent energy efficiency retrofit works and an existing educational/office wing of a University building. Further data will be collected in new field studies involving 100 new and existing residential buildings, a new educational/office building and an existing educational/office building to deliver the project aims.