Analysis of Daylighting Requirements within ASHRAE Standard 90.1

Athalye, Rahul A. ; Xie, YuLong ; Liu, Bing ; Rosenberg, Michael I.

关键词: daylighting;    ashrae;    90.1;    office;    building;    window to wall ratio;    visible transmittance;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1092662
RP-ID  :  PNNL-22698
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1092662
Others  :  Other: BT0703000

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), under the Building Energy Codes Program (BECP) funded by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), provides support to the ASHRAE/IES/IESNA Standard 90.1(Standard 90.1) Standing Standards Project Committee (SSPC 90.1) and its subcommittees. In an effort to provide the ASHRAE SSPC 90.1 with data that will improve the daylighting and fenestration requirements in the Standard, PNNL collaborated with Heschong Mahone Group (HMG), now part of TRC Solutions. Combining EnergyPlus, a whole-building energy simulation software developed by DOE, with Radiance, a highly accurate illumination modeling software (Ward 1994), the daylighting requirements within Standard 90.1 were analyzed in greater detail. The initial scope of the study was to evaluate the impact of the fraction of window area compared to exterior wall area (window-to-wall ratio (WWR)) on energy consumption when daylighting controls are implemented. This scope was expanded to study the impact of fenestration visible transmittance (VT), electric lighting controls and daylighted area on building energy consumption.