Building: Vancouver Island University Cowichan Campus
Goal – The goal of this project is to explore how classroom in a high-performance academic building can provide an indoor environment that is comfortable, healthy, and geared towards learning and engagement with the local environment.
Methods:
- Real-time and historic systems and environmental data from the building management system
- Dynamic building and classroom simulation model, calibrated with real data
- Pending: classroom occupants ↔ climate systems interactions study
- Pending: occupancy-systems operational optimization
Publications:
Mottaghi A, Mora R (2018). Model-based coupling of air and hydronic systems operation in a typical classroom of a high-performance academic building, Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA, Chicago, IL, USA, September 26-28, 2018. VIU paper IBPSA ASHRAE
Reports:
Pilot study investigation of the performance gap in high-performance buildings. Case study: Vancouver Island University. Report Phase I – Observations of performance issues, and identification of research opportunities. May of 2018. Rodrigo Mora and Rohit Upadhyay.
