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Building Envelope Systems

Submitted By
Daniel Diaz Salgado

Your building envelope recommendations for this practice exercise should feature:

  • Your recommended settings for the Insight Factor tiles
  • A screenshot from Insight showing the Predicted Mean EUI and the range of values resulting from your assumptions
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1. Building envelope

Image 1. Best result achievable through building envelope choices.
Image 1. Best result achievable through building envelope choices.

Recommended settings to achieve this result:

Image 2. Building orientation.
Image 2. Building orientation.
Image 3. WWR - Northern Walls.
Image 3. WWR - Northern Walls.
Image 4. Wall Construction.
Image 4. Wall Construction.
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Image 5. WWR - Western Walls.
Image 5. WWR - Western Walls.
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2. Building envelope + power & lighting

Image 6. Best Result achievable through building envelope and power & lighting choices.
Image 6. Best Result achievable through building envelope and power & lighting choices.

Recommended settings to achieve this result:

Image 7. Lighting efficiency.
Image 7. Lighting efficiency.
Image 8. Plug load efficiency.
Image 8. Plug load efficiency.
Image 9 Daylighting & occupancy controls.
Image 9 Daylighting & occupancy controls.

3. Building envelope + power & lighting + photovoltaic panels

Image 10. Best result adding photovoltaic panels.
Image 10. Best result adding photovoltaic panels.

Recommended settings to achieve this result:

Image 11. PV - Surface coverage.
Image 11. PV - Surface coverage.
Image 12. Payback limit.
Image 12. Payback limit.
Image 13. Panel efficiency.
Image 13. Panel efficiency.