Adapting façade performances to climate change in northern Europe: Analysis of future scenarios for an office building in Stockholm

Future climate change will affect many human activities and sectors. Among those, the built environment will face several challenges about the varying climate conditions, including increased demand for summer cooling and related heat stress indoor conditions. In this framework, the paper presents th...

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Main Authors: Matteo Costanzo, Andrea Giovanni Mainini, Giuliana Iannaccone, Ivo Martinac, David Parsman
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Published: Czech Technical University in Prague 2022-12-01
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Online Access:https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/APP/article/view/8324
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Giuliana Iannaccone
Ivo Martinac
David Parsman
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description Future climate change will affect many human activities and sectors. Among those, the built environment will face several challenges about the varying climate conditions, including increased demand for summer cooling and related heat stress indoor conditions. In this framework, the paper presents the results of a recent study that investigated the global warming impacts on energy demand and indoor climate comfort for an office building in Stockholm over the next 50-60 years. The future climate conditions were investigated in 2070 and 2080 with different climate morphing approaches. Three different passive cooling solutions to decrease the cooling demand (such as external roller shade, electrochromic glazing, and internally ventilated shading) have been preliminarily assessed about thermal and optical properties, then integrated into the building energy simulation software IDA-ICE to evaluate the building energy performances regarding different Swedish climates, and finally economically estimated with a simplified LCC analysis. The results indicated that an increment of the cooling demand from 3 up to 24 kWh/m2 and a reduction of the heating usage of 20-50 % will be experienced in 50-60 years. The different weather data morphing approaches displayed the inherent uncertainties when future evaluations are performed, although similar weather patterns were found. The improvement of the solar and optical properties indicated a lower cooling and ventilation usage with reductions of about 10-16 %. The electrochromic technology reported the lowest cooling demand (decrease up to 24 %), while the internally ventilated shading option outperformed the others with anannual energy consumption 4-9 % lower and the lowest LCC.
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spelling doaj-art-92f0140db3b742a7872693cb74232fbb2025-08-20T02:52:31ZengCzech Technical University in PragueActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings2336-53822022-12-013843644210.14311/APP.2022.38.04365564Adapting façade performances to climate change in northern Europe: Analysis of future scenarios for an office building in StockholmMatteo Costanzo0Andrea Giovanni Mainini1Giuliana Iannaccone2Ivo Martinac3David Parsman4WSP in the UK, Façade Department, 70 Chancery Lane, WC2A 1AF London, UKPolitecnico di Milano, Architecture Built Environment Construction Engineering Department, 20133 Milano, ItalyPolitecnico di Milano, Architecture Built Environment Construction Engineering Department, 20133 Milano, ItalyKTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Building Services and Energy Systems, 11428 Stockholm, SwedenWSP Sverige, HVAC and Energy System Departement, 7 Arenavägen, 12188 Stockholm, Sweden Future climate change will affect many human activities and sectors. Among those, the built environment will face several challenges about the varying climate conditions, including increased demand for summer cooling and related heat stress indoor conditions. In this framework, the paper presents the results of a recent study that investigated the global warming impacts on energy demand and indoor climate comfort for an office building in Stockholm over the next 50-60 years. The future climate conditions were investigated in 2070 and 2080 with different climate morphing approaches. Three different passive cooling solutions to decrease the cooling demand (such as external roller shade, electrochromic glazing, and internally ventilated shading) have been preliminarily assessed about thermal and optical properties, then integrated into the building energy simulation software IDA-ICE to evaluate the building energy performances regarding different Swedish climates, and finally economically estimated with a simplified LCC analysis. The results indicated that an increment of the cooling demand from 3 up to 24 kWh/m2 and a reduction of the heating usage of 20-50 % will be experienced in 50-60 years. The different weather data morphing approaches displayed the inherent uncertainties when future evaluations are performed, although similar weather patterns were found. The improvement of the solar and optical properties indicated a lower cooling and ventilation usage with reductions of about 10-16 %. The electrochromic technology reported the lowest cooling demand (decrease up to 24 %), while the internally ventilated shading option outperformed the others with anannual energy consumption 4-9 % lower and the lowest LCC.https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/APP/article/view/8324climate change building designpassive cooling solutionssolar control techniques
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Ivo Martinac
David Parsman
Adapting façade performances to climate change in northern Europe: Analysis of future scenarios for an office building in Stockholm
Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings
climate change
building design
passive cooling solutions
solar control techniques
title Adapting façade performances to climate change in northern Europe: Analysis of future scenarios for an office building in Stockholm
title_full Adapting façade performances to climate change in northern Europe: Analysis of future scenarios for an office building in Stockholm
title_fullStr Adapting façade performances to climate change in northern Europe: Analysis of future scenarios for an office building in Stockholm
title_full_unstemmed Adapting façade performances to climate change in northern Europe: Analysis of future scenarios for an office building in Stockholm
title_short Adapting façade performances to climate change in northern Europe: Analysis of future scenarios for an office building in Stockholm
title_sort adapting facade performances to climate change in northern europe analysis of future scenarios for an office building in stockholm
topic climate change
building design
passive cooling solutions
solar control techniques
url https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/APP/article/view/8324
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