Author(s): Ermolenko, Evgenii ; Figueiredo, Bruno ; Almeida, Manuela Guedes de ; Lopes, Lucas Matheus Caldas Vicente ; Azenha, Miguel
Date: 2024
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/92433
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Project/scholarship: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04029%2F2020/PT; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04509%2F2020/PT;
Subject(s): Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Civil
Currently, the rehabilitation and renovation of buildings represent significant challenges in the construction sector in Portugal. These challenges are driven by the urgent need to rehabilitate the building stock, prepare it to meet carbon neutrality targets by 2050, and reduce waste and residues in the sector. Therefore, building renovation must be approached comprehensively to improve energy performance and optimise construction and energy costs. To achieve these goals, it is crucial to define a precise approach to renovation projects, including simulations that anticipate the behaviour of buildings and adopt comprehensive design solutions to tailor specific environmental conditions. In this context, there are well-established platforms and tools developed by major professional software vendors. Nevertheless, a gap was discovered in developing optimisation solutions, which enable integrated energy performance assessment of building models and allow the optimisation of facade systems for renovation within a bidirectional framework in a platform. Consequently the tool presented in the current work generates facade panels based on energy performance simulation and optimisation results. As a result, a set of generated panel configurations, including dimensions and material alterations, comprise the system that varies along the facades, optimising the building's total energy consumption and production cost. The workflow is detailed, including inferred analyses and suggestions for future improvements
This work was performed within the scope of the ZeroSkin+ project developed by the University of Minho, co-founded by the Europian Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through Norte Regional Operational Programme 2020, under reference NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000058, also partly financed by FCT / MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC) under the R&D Unit Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), under reference UIDB/04029/2020 (doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04029/2020), under the Associate Laboratory Advanced Production and Intelligent Systems ARISE under reference LA/P/0112/2020, and under the Multiannual Funding of the Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), Ref. UID/04509/2020.
