[Bldg-sim] Hourly schedules for equipment gains, occupancy, and lighting for typical houses in the UK

[Jin Minming]

The activity data in National Calculation method is very suitable for building 
energy simulation and they are hourly schedules.  DesignBuilder also has the 
same data.  I do not know whether they are based on US or not. It seems they are 
more suitable for dormitory.  


Maybe there are large variations of occupancy behaviour for the residential 
buildings. So, the hourly schedules for occupancy, equipment, and lighting are 
not available for UK typical houses. 


Jim
 




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From: Wookey <wookey at wookware.org>
To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Sent: Mon, 6 September, 2010 17:31:59
Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] Hourly schedules for equipment gains, occupancy, and 
lighting for typical houses in the UK

+++ Jin Minming [2010-09-06 16:24 +0000]:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to simulate the thermal performance for typical houses in the UK (or
> England).  National calculation method (http://www.ncm.bre.co.uk) is for
> buildings other than dwellings.  But hourly schedules for equipment gains,
> lighting, and occupancy are available from this database. For example,
> Dwell_DomBed(An area primarily used for sleep), Dwell_DomLounge (The main
> reception room of the home), etc.   I am not sure whether these schedules are
> appropriate for the application of building simulation in typical UK houses? 

Neither am I without seeing them. What sort of times/outputs do they
specify? Given that info we should be able to see if they were wildly
innapropriate of not. They are presumably based on US data? 

> If
> not, any other database may be avaiable for the UK houses? I have checked the
> Standard Assessment Procedure SAP and there are not detailed hourly schedules
> for this purpose.

I'm not aware of other data. PHPP must have some numbers in it for
this stuff, which would at least be european-based, if not
specifically UK. Lighting times certainly need to be
lattitude-adjusted as we get a lot of dark-hours in comparison to
central europe. 

Wookey
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