Designing Zero Carbon Buildings - Embodied and Operational Emissions in Achieving True Zero

Chapter 4 Weather and Climate

Direct gain box - EnergyPlus model

Chapter 6 Site Issues

CFD analysis of a test building without shelter planting in Figure 59 - IES model

CFD analysis of a test building with shelter planting in Figure 60 - IES model

Overshadowing (Figure 69) and daylighting potential (Figure 71) - IES model

Chapter 8 Thermal Insulation And Air Tightness

Low insulation - DesignBuilder model

High insulation - DesignBuilder model

Internal insulation - DesignBuilder model

External insulation - DesignBuilder model

External insulation 0.1ach - DesignBuilder model

Chapter 9 Solar Gain

Reference model as in Figure 103 - IES model

Direct gain model as in Figure 104 - IES model

Isolated plus direct gain model as in Figure 105 - IES model

Trombe wall model as in Figure 106 - IES model

Double skin model as in Figure 107 - IES model

Clear glazing model as in Figure 108 - IES model

Low-e glazing as in Figure 108 - IES model

TIM glazing (Nanogel) as in Figure 108 - IES model

Switchable glazing as in Figure 108 - IES model

Chapter 10 Solar Shading Design

Shading geometry calculations spreadsheet

Model for shadow-casting analysis as in Figure 117 - IES model

Chapter 11 Thermal Mass

Low density wall - DesignBuilder model

Medium density wall - DesignBuilder model

High density wall - DesignBuilder model

Low density wall with PCM - DesignBuilder model

Low density slab - DesignBuilder model

High density slab - DesignBuilder model

Chapter 12 Natural And Mechanical Ventilation

Natural ventilation analysis using bulk air flow as in Figure 133 and 135 - IES model

Natural ventilation analysis using CFD as in Figures 136 to 141 - IES model

Chapter 13 Natural Daylight

Room geometry calculation spreadsheet

Shallow plan model - IES model

Double depth model - IES model

Double depth double height model - IES model

All three models together as in Figure 153 and 158 - IES model

Chapter 14 Electrical Lighting And Its Integration With Natural Daylight

Model 'f3' that integrates daylight sensor readings into control of electrical lighting - IES model

Chapter 15 Internal Heat Gains, Heating And Cooling

Model 'a' used for calculation of boiler's load - IES model

Chapter 16 Renewable Energy

Model 'a' used to investigate renewable energy systems - IES model

Chapter 17 Thermal Comfort

Model 'f3+' - IES model

Chapter 18 Designing for Negative Operational Emissions

Model 'a' - IES model

Cost - CO2 optimisation run in DesignBuilder that show failed comfort constraint below -500 CO2 emissions and leads to the simulation model below

Final Cost - CO2 optimisation model with comfort contstraint in DesignBuildre that shows the results of single simulations as well as of the final multi-objective optimisation with one Pareto point

Chapter 21 Case Studies

Zero Carbon House reference model - IES model

Zero Carbon House final model - IES model