Effect of climate change on the annual energy consumption of a single family house in British Columbia
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2018
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MATEC Web Conf.
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The Earth is already experiencing some of the effects of
climate change, such as rising temperature, more frequent storms,
increased precipitation, etc. This paper investigates the effect of climate
change on the energy consumption of a single-family house with different
energy efficiency levels, i.e. bylaw to meet current National Energy Code
of Canada for Buildings (NECB), and passive house (PH) to meet the PH
requirements under four climate zones in British Columbia, Canada. SRES
A2, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 emission scenarios are used to generate future
climate for 2020, 2050, and 2080. The simulation results show that for
both bylaw and PH cases, heating energy consumption will be reduced
while cooling energy consumption will be increased, as a result for bylaw
case, the energy consumption will be decreased for four climate zones,
while for PH case, the energy consumption will be increased for zone 4 &
5 and decreased for zone 6 & 7. In climate zone 5, the building fails to
meet the PH requirements during 2050. Therefore, buildings designed
based on historical weather data will perform differently under the
changing future climates, thus the efforts should be made to design
buildings that are adaptable to climate change.
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Effect of climate change on the annual energy consumption of a single family house in British Columbia
Fuad Mutasim Baba and Hua Ge
MATEC Web Conf., 251 (2018) 03018