Building performance simulation with computational modelling software enables practitioners to realise a low carbon built environment.

Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Environment and sustainability - natural world and built environment, Professional practice, training and standards

Narrative

Research by staff of the Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU) at Strathclyde has resulted in advances in the state-of-the-art in dynamic building energy modelling as encapsulated within the Open Source ESP-r program. This new capability enabled practitioners to analyse phenomena and technologies hitherto not capable of being modelled in building simulation tools. The impact stems from the embedding of ESP-r within companies resulting in service improvement and job creation, and applications of ESP-r resulting in energy demand reduction, low carbon energy systems integration and environmental impact mitigation.
Impact statusOpen
Category of impactEnvironment and sustainability - natural world and built environment, Professional practice, training and standards

Keywords

  • low carbon environment
  • energy modelling
  • system integration
  • building simulation
  • REF2014 impact case study

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