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

[Paul Carey]

I tend to agree on the whole with Jin.

The NCM should give you a good basis for comparison purposes but  
obviously if you are looking in more detail you may want to make your  
own custom profiles and schedules.

It comes from gathered data by the BRE over many years essentially or  
at least the commercial bits certainly do.

You may want to check out the SAP requirements which may also have  
some information that will be useful.

Most software now has a number of inbuilt domestic scehdules. I know  
both Designbuilder and IES do so they're normally a good starting  
point of reference.


Paul

Dr Paul Carey
Director
Zero Energy Design Ltd

www.zed-UK.com



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On 6 Sep 2010, at 18:35, Jin Minming <jminming at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> 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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