Edificaciones de energ?a cero: simulaci?n energ?tica y desempe?o de establecimientos educativos en un clima tropical ecuatorial
- Authors
- Vimos Abad, Juan Andr?s
- Format
- MasterThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
According to the Ecuador Master Plan for Electrification 2009-2020 (Plan Maestro de Electrification del Ecuador 2009-2020), commercial building sector in Ecuador is responsible for almost 20% of the total energy. An equivalent to 1.5 MTo of Greenhouse gas emissions per year. There is a clear tendency for higher energy demands on the coming years. However, due to the fact that Ecuador?s energy source in the year 2016 will be 92% from renewable the need to encourage sustainable design in buildings and ultimatley of urban cities will be pointed at building performance and design. Fortunately, the governamental initiaties have shown interest in sustainable design and energy efficient measures: new policies to protect the environment, demainding sustaniability requirements in national project contest, and changes in energy matrix, reinforce the notion that it is time for upgrading building standard to meet the future needs. Zero-Energy Buildings (ZEBs)) appear to be a feasible solution for optimizing building energy demands and reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. This new technology requires the utilization of advance software, such as EnergyPlus or EPS-r, for building modelling simulations that can predict reliable behavior of the building with respect to thermal comfort as well as energy consumption. Consequently, the remaining energy demand is supplied by integrating Energy Systems such as Renewable Technologies in the design process and thus achieving a ZEBs. The following project addresses the issue of ZEBs applied on a developing countries such as Ecuador, by analyzing the energy performance of educational establishments the tropical city of Tena, to reveal the opportunities and limitations that ZEBs. The main aim is to seek the feasibility of introducing energy efficiency concepts in to building sector, to eventually create guidelines and encourage building practices in the region. The feasibility has been assessed by establishing an enrgy goal throught a ZEB definition, consequely laying out a valid methodology for exploring and creating a design alternative estragety. From the results obtained in this paper, introducing passive design estragies and energy efficiency measures can have a significan impact on building performance and are more viable than integrating expensive renewable technologines when the context and the situation of Ecuador, favors off-site renewable energy supply.
Las energ?as renovables constituir? para el a?o 2017, la base del cambio en la matriz productiva en el Ecuador. Las edificaciones de energ?a Cero (EEC) conocidas como Zero-Energy Buildings, aparecen como una soluci?n viable para la optimizaci?n de la demanda energ?tica en la edificaci?n ecuatoriana la cual consume alrededor de un 32% del total de la energ?a del pa?s y a su ves reducen las emisiones de CO2 a la atm?sfera. El presente proyecto de investigaci?n estudia la factibilidad y los beneficios de las EECs aplicadas a proyectos de inter?s y beneficio social como son las unidades educativas del Milenio. El principal objetivo es buscar introducir conceptos de eficiencia energ?tica basados en simulaciones computarizadas para eventualmente generar gu?as y directrices de dise?o que nos permitan mejorar las pr?cticas ce construcci?n en la regi?n. De los resultados obtenidos se puede concluir que al introducir, principalmente medidas de dise?o pasivas y de eficiencia energ?tica se obtienen beneficios significativos en cuanto al consumo energ?tico lo cual se transforma en ahorro econ?mico para el pa?s.
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- ARQUITECTURA Y CONSTRUCCI?N
EFICIENCIA ENERG?TICA
ENERG?AS RENOVABLES
ZERO ENERGY BUILDINGS
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License