Synthesizing test Reference Year files from known climate patterns of nearby cities

José Aderson Araújo Passos Filho,Daniel Ribeiro Cardoso,Nayana Helena Barbosa De Castro,Bruno De Payva Y Raviolo,Natasha Catunda,Karoline Cordeiro De Andrade

doi:10.20396/parc.v10i0.8653706

Abstract

The importance of an architecture adapted to its climatic context is often debated. In order to avoid future unexpected environmental behavior or failure of a building during its use, building simulation tools are used in the design and require complete and consistent weather data. However, such data are not always available for the locations where buildings are simulated, and the use of data from neighboring cities becomes usual. There are, though, several uncertainties involved in the behavior of environmental variables when the climate of large urban centers is attributed to nearby localities and areas with more significant vegetation cover, water bodies, different topography, among others. The present paper aims to present the process of preparing a weather file for the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex, located at 40 km from the capital Fortaleza, Brazil, in order to be used in simulations during the design process of buildings. The synthesis of the file was achieved through the collection and treatment of information measured in loco, the application of recommended models for the estimation of missing data, and the development of an alternative method for the estimation of a Test Reference Year of localities without weather data of several years.

Highlights

The importance of an architecture adapted to its climatic context is often debated
In order to avoid unexpected behavior or failure during its use, building simulation tools require complete and consistent weather data, which implies the application of pre-processing, correction and interpolation techniques for the correction of erroneous or missing data (BARNABY; CRAWLEY, 2011)
The design process of the building requires an investigation of the environmental parameters in order to enable a seamless environmental integration (BARNABY; CRAWLEY, 2011), which involves the elaboration and analysis of a climatic file compatible with the simulation engine to be used

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Introduction

The importance of an architecture adapted to its climatic context is often debated. Due to this necessity, computational tools can help and assist designers and clients in making assertive decisions. The building will serve as a case study to analyze the crucial role of simulations to evaluate the performance of the building’s subsystems in order to reduce its energy consumption It is a partially airconditioned building, which follows the paradigm of bioclimatic architecture and is oriented to reduce the consumption of its active systems during its operation. With this in mind, the design process of the building requires an investigation of the environmental parameters in order to enable a seamless environmental integration (BARNABY; CRAWLEY, 2011), which involves the elaboration and analysis of a climatic file compatible with the simulation engine to be used

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